> Hmm.. I just found Kudzu has freely available builds available.
> Well, I dunno... I must have messed up my testing because
> it does not seem slower now. Until I can reproduce a "slower"
> case, I will just go back into hiding :-)
Sometimes, after an apparently unrelated change, Windows XP goes into a
networking slow-mode, at least until it is rebooted, and I finally
found a repeatable case of this happening. I noticed it happening at
other times, but never knew if it was me messing up something. Anyway,
I replaced a printer on an IP print box. On each of five PCs, deleting
the original printer and adding the new printer (and both were on the
same port of the same print box) caused all network operations to be
about 10 times slower, such as copying a file across the network: it
was not an issue of just a slowness in the connection being set up
(such as you would get with a DNS timeout) but the data-copying time
was also very slow. Very weird.
Ciaran
