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why does my local area network have a time in lag of 30 seconds or more every day?

i have to computers hooked up through a blitzz wireless router. i am not using the wireless so it is cable conected by bolth computers to the router . i have about 12 folders being shared over the network on computer a . when i try to access them from computer b there is usualy a 30 sec lag time before it accesses the files on computer a . the internet always works fine on bolth computers its just the files it trys to access that makes the lag . bolth are running xp pro . after it the folders do show up on computer b it works fine for a while then the same thing happends again every day there is no viruses or spyware as i kleened all of those nasty bug out . the files are not accesses from a shared folder but rather from a shared network folder . thanks in advance

Public Comments

1. I'd bet that one of your NICs is set to auto-detect. This may cause it to connect at 10mbps half duplex, instead of 100mbps full. Connectivity would be slower as the faster nic, would need to detect the slower connection, adjust then transmit the info.
2. if you have alot of files in the shared folder it takes time. install Netbeui which is a faster LAN protocol and might help some. Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. Navigate to the Valueadd\MSFT\Net\NetBEUI folder. Copy Nbf.sys to the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Drivers directory. Copy Netnbf.inf to the %SYSTEMROOT%\Inf hidden directory. Click [Start] [Control Panel] and double-click [Network Connections] . Right-click the adapter where NetBEUI is to be added then click Properties . On [General] tab, click Install . Click [Protocol] then click [Add] . Select NetBEUI Protocol from the list and then click OK . Restart computer if prompted. NetBEUI should be installed and functional.