Poor Network speed with XP

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Dave

I have a home network with 4 pcs on it. 3 are running
win 98 se and my laptop has xp home edition. The problem
im having is when I use amy of the 98se computers to copy
or move files TO the laptop I get great transfer times.
But if i try to pull any information from the laptop it
takes forever. Also if I use the laptop to do any
transfering to or from the other computers I also get
horrible transfers. One example is I do alot of graphic
work and need to keep files updated. I recently had to
copy about 2 gigs of files to my laptop for
transportation. I tried it a few times and it came out
the same, if I used the laptop to get the files it took
about 45 min to transfer, but if i used the 98 machines
it took about 20 minutes. Can someone please help me with
this problem?
Dave
 
this may help quoted from http://www25.brinkster.com/ChicagoTech
XP accesses Win9x very slow

Symptom: in a mixed OS, win98, MW and W2K/XP, if win98 and Me client have a
password-protected file share; all computers are part of a workgroup; you
are using the "Save this password" feature on your XP client computer, you
may experience slow browsing Win98 and ME from the XP.

Resolution: XP always saves the password in the Credential Manager. When you
browse a Win98 or Me client in a peer-to-peer network, Credential Manager
tries to contact a domain controller to validate the password. Because the
computers are in a workgroup environment, there is no domain controller, and
you must wait until the requests timeout. Install SP1 should fix this
problem.
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I double checked my installations on the windows update
and i have already installed the SP1 for XP. This did
not fix the problem. Is there another fix or somthing I
can do to speed up my internal network speed on XP?
Dave
 
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