Re: Peer to peer network problem.

> Hiya:
> Had a problem with the boss's computer today. What we have is a small peer
> to peer network, all computers 5 computers are XP, with P6 processors. My
> boss complained that his computer was slow. I found out his ram chip 128M,
> was only letting computer use 80M of ram. The Ram was defective, and since
> the boss has a nice p6 1600, I convinced him to getting some more Ram
> anyway. So now he went out and got two 512M ram ddr chips. Well that

> fixed his speed problem. But then we noticed that on the peer to peer
> network, which really was not used prior to today, on just the boss's
> computer when he tries to open either a word doc, pdf file, or access
> database from another computer on the network, the application hangs, and
> even using task manager is difficult to kill the process. Using the same
> network connection to access the internet gives no problem at all. And now
> with the increased ram, his load time of pages is just great. It is only
> trying to access documents over the peer to peer network where

> hang. Can anyone give any pointers into what I should look at. All the

> computers are working fine, and they can open and read documents of the
> boss's computer. While on the peer to peer network, and during the
> application trying to run, CPU utilization does not go out of

> usage, but I did notice that there is hardly any network transfer speed.
> Might be reading at about .3, to 0.
> Thanks
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