Slow Windows 7 network browsing/discovery - fixed, but...

[Mike Tomlinson]

Someone (Jeff Gaines?) posted here recently about slow network
browsing/discovery in Windows 7. I commented that I'd had the same
problem and that I found it easier to hit Win-R and type \\computername
rather than wait forever for the green scrolly bar in Network
Neighbourhood.

In particular, it took ages to find my Microserver running CentOS/Samba
on the LAN. Sometimes it would not find it at all. I use this machine
as a media and backup server.

Finally decided to have a google and try some of the suggested fixes.
It now instantly finds resources, including the Microserver, on the
local network. The problem is, I. unsurewhat actually fixed it :)

This page suggests switching off IPv6 which made sense to me - first of
all, nothing on my local LAN uses it, and secondly there is no DNS
server, leading me to wonder if the delay was name server timeouts.

With IPv6 off, the Network configuration in Control Panel will not allow
you to set the "Network Location" as Home - it insists on IPv6 being
enabled for this, so I switched off IPv6 on both interfaces (wireless
and LAN), and set both as being in the "Work" network location.

Maybe it'll go back to being slow after a reboot - not tried yet, but
for now it is quick.

May be worth others with the same problem trying this.

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[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo <XA52EJAo...@jasper.org.uk>, Mike Tomlinson
<mi...@jasper.org.uk> escribió:

>This page suggests

Helps if I post the link...

http://serverfault.com/questions/440808/slow-network-discovery

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[Jeff Gaines]

On 26/05/2015 in message <twb4oVAj...@jasper.org.uk> Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

Many thanks, Mike :-)

I have made the suggested changes and will see how it goes. When I click
on "Network" in Explorer it shows up the shared drives on my main machine
quickly now but still takes a while to expand them.

Irony (1) - It tells me it can't find "TheMonster" even when I am
connected to it using RDP.

Irony (2) - I dived into the Windows 10 alt group and asked if networking
was better/quicker and was met with a barrage of "it's not a problems,
what's your issue, you have your PC set up wrong etc.) - looks like the
MSFT fanbois are well entrenched there :-(

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Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
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