THANK YOU! This contribution is as good as gold to me! This advice changed the speed I can synchronize my laptop with my desktop by atleast 10 times. The speed difference is overwhelming. Also, all my network Apps run much faster. Thanks for the speed up!

Regards, John



>I had the same problem until recently I changed the MTU--Maximum Transmision Unit for TCP/IP to 1454. Under some circumstances routers and other backbone equipment will chop up and fragment MTU packets. If you notice a lot of flashing lights on your router while nothing is going on, you might try lowering the MTU on the target machines.
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>If you need a tweaking tool for MTU try:
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>http://www.dslreports.com/front/drtcp.html
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>HTH,
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>--Paul