Slow network in XP

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I've been experimenting with Win XP professional for about
a year now. Compared to WIN98SE, the network performance
is excruciatingly slow! I've re-installed 98 and the
performance comes back. I re-install XP and it goes down
the crapper again! This is on 4 computers that otherwise
run XP just fine (DELL XPS 1000, IBM Thinkpad 600E, and
two i810 clones, 600MHz and 700MHz with plenty of
memory). These all run on a 10/100 ethernet home network
with a Netgear router.

What's the deal with networking in XP???

KEith Muir
 
Oh, by the way:

I don't use ICS;
I'm only using TCP/IP (nothing else) although I do have
the NETBIOS overlay;
I use Norton anitvirus but no firewall and all computers
connect to the internet just fine at the maximum cable
speed (3mbps)
I get about 50+Mbps transfers with Win98 and less than 10
(much less) with XP.
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sktn77a said:
Oh, by the way:

I don't use ICS;
I'm only using TCP/IP (nothing else) although I do have
the NETBIOS overlay;
I use Norton anitvirus but no firewall and all computers
connect to the internet just fine at the maximum cable
speed (3mbps)
I get about 50+Mbps transfers with Win98 and less than 10
(much less) with XP.
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With no firewall ... humm... anything now could be running on your
machines to have messed it up. Turn on a firewall.
 
Rob:

Thanksfor the suggestion, but it's a clean install and I
do have Norton Antivirus (up-to-date), so I don't think
that's the problem.

Keith
 
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