Beta 20 extremely slow with network drive

[whytea]

When it comes to slow connection to a network drive, 7.x is virtually unusable. So I tried 8 beta 20 to see if anything has changed. To my surprise, nothing has changed. In fact it seems to be worse as I couldn't even change to a sub-directory. I had to resort to Windows Explorer to get the job done - just to copy a couple of files over. I wonder why TC is so so so slow, is it because it's single threaded?

I know many have raised the same question before. But I was hoping the problem could be resolved in 8.

/WT

[karlchen]

Beta 20 extremely slow with network drive

It will be hard to confirm so in our network. Or to put it the other way round: I cannot confirm so from my own experience inside our network here.
More likely than not, your experience and mine are totally different, because our networks will be totally different. Here, this is a professional company network run by professional network administrators.
No hassle using Total Commander on UNC network paths or on mapped network paths.

Karl

[whytea]

Beta 20 extremely slow with network drive

It will be hard to confirm so in our network. Or to put it the other way round: I cannot confirm so from my own experience inside our network here.
More likely than not, your experience and mine are totally different, because our networks will be totally different. Here, this is a professional company network run by professional network administrators.
No hassle using Total Commander on UNC network paths or on mapped network paths. :wink:

Karl

That's fair enough.

The fair comparison is that it works better on Windows Explorer, at least the files could be copied. But not with TC. The underlying network is the same for both software.

I know the network performance isn't great,, but this is not a personal or backyard network. It's a company with over 50,000 employees worldwide.

[karlchen]

Hello, whytea.

OK. I see. Company networks both. So not one of the cases where a particular home network device may have been tested to co-operate with Microsoft Explorer only.
Which copy method do you use in Total Commander 8.0 beta?
What happens if you use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V in Total Commander for the same operation instead of using <F5>? Does it affect copying speed?

Cheers,
Karl

[whytea]

Hello, whytea.

OK. I see. Company networks both. So not one of the cases where a particular home network device may have been tested to co-operate with Microsoft Explorer only.
Which copy method do you use in Total Commander 8.0 beta?
What happens if you use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V in Total Commander for the same operation instead of using <F5>? Does it affect copying speed?

Cheers,
Karl

Hi Karl,

I couldn't even get that far because I couldn't change to the sub directory I want to. It took like one second to display one line. Once that's done, I double click on the sub directory but it repaint the original listing again. Granted it wasn't that fast for Windows Explorer either, but I managed to change to the folder (first go) and I just dragged and dropped into it.

[karlchen]

Hello, whytea.

I couldn't even get that far because I couldn't change to the sub directory I want to.

Company network or not, this does read like there is a network problem.
Admittedly your report suggests that the Windows Explorer handles the - slow? bad? slow and bad? - line more gracefully than Total Commander does. But maybe there is a way of making Total Commander at least act as friendly as Explorer by making sure that Total Commander

• does not try to extract file type icons on network drives
  Tick Options => Icons => [X] EXE/LNK not on net
• does not monitor network drives for changes unless it gets back the focus
  If you use Options => Refresh => Auto-refresh when the file system changes, make sure that you exclude network drives by adding \ to the field "No refresh for these drives" at the bottom and add letters pointing to mapped network drives there, too.

Karl

[whytea]

Hello, whytea.

I couldn't even get that far because I couldn't change to the sub directory I want to.

Company network or not, this does read like there is a network problem.
Admittedly your report suggests that the Windows Explorer handles the - slow? bad? slow and bad? - line more gracefully than Total Commander does. But maybe there is a way of making Total Commander at least act as friendly as Explorer by making sure that Total Commander

• does not try to extract file type icons on network drives
  Tick Options => Icons => [X] EXE/LNK not on net
• does not monitor network drives for changes unless it gets back the focus
  If you use Options => Refresh => Auto-refresh when the file system changes, make sure that you exclude network drives by adding \ to the field "No refresh for these drives" at the bottom and add letters pointing to mapped network drives there, too.

Karl

Thanks Karl, "[X] EXE/LNK not on net" did the trick. Since such an option can render the app unusable, I think the default should be set to tick by the application.

/WT

[jjou]

My network drive become very slow when I enable both wired and wireless network.
If I disable one of them, it is fast again.
Hope this may help you as well.

This is a known Windows problem: Windows then tries to find other PCs on both networks, and that can take a long time if one of them doesn't respond.

If you really need both enabled at the same time, you may want to add the most used servers to the Ctrl+D directory hotlist. Switching to a known server name is much faster than enumerating the server list.