Home Network ?

Jimmy Medalions · Post by **Jimmy Medalions** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:52 pm

OK, so I have a Dell desktop and a wireless ThinkPad. Both have a wireless connection to an access point in my house / are not hard-wired to the cable modem.

A few months back, I mad both join the same workgroup, set certain folders on each to be shared, and I had the two PC's networked together.

Annoying thing was...when I had one machine on, and not the other, it would take forever for My Computer to open, because (I'm assuming) the computer was 'looking for' the other machine and couldn't find it. It annoyed me so much, I un-shared each of the machines' shared folders, moved them to seperate workgroups, etc. Essentially I tried to un-do what I'd done.

Problem is, both appear to still be 'looking for' the other machine.

Any suggestions?

DiT · Post by **DiT** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:20 pm

they still networked together?

Jimmy Medalions · Post by **Jimmy Medalions** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:24 pm

no. once my computer finally comes up no network drives or folders show up.

JKnox · Post by **JKnox** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:43 pm

Jimmy Medalions wrote:no. once my computer finally comes up no network drives or folders show up.

Christ, and you mod this forum? :roll:

Jimmy Medalions · Post by **Jimmy Medalions** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:11 pm

^^ Sub-GED education ^^

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:41 am

Here is the deal Jimmah,

Windows networking has nothing to do with my computer. In other words, you shouldn't have any delays opening 'My computer' even if you have the two computers networked. Even with only a 10mb/s network, your 'My Computer' would only think about the network if you had a drive/folder mapped.
So my first advice to you is to make sure that you don't have any network drives/printers mapped to your computers. IF you don't have drives mapped, your 'my computer' should not care if your computer is on the network or not. if you are having problems, its cause of all the stuff you are running on your computers. Onle problem with MS Explorer is that its linked with windows. If windows is slow, MS explorer and IE will be slower. Integrating things is generally good, but MS does it all wrong. If windows is sluggish, IE and Explorer will be slow as well. If IE runs a lot of shit, explorer will be slow as well.

Incidentally, You should review all the stuff running on your computer. Windows will run a lot of extra junk and slow your computer down. For example the MS Office toolbar is slow. So is a lot of other junk running on your Pc.

Use msconfig to shut off unnecessary shit.

-ET

Junkman · Post by **Junkman** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:49 am

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html

Go there Jimmah.

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:58 pm

Jimmuh, this is a home network.

verbal · Post by **verbal** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:00 pm

looks like youre ready for a garage sale

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:11 pm

I highly doubt it.

Oh...... you must be bagging on those Chinese plastimacated cases I bought when I built those PC's. HAHAHAHAHA!!!! You funny Joe.

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:07 am

I haven't set up my network since I moved. It consists of 3 PCs and 3 Sun solaris machines plus a few random laptops and junk.

-ET

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:59 am

JKnox wrote:
Jimmy Medalions wrote:no. once my computer finally comes up no network drives or folders show up.
Christ, and you mod this forum? :roll:

for pete's sake...what?