Al,
Thanks for the suggestion. I just copied a 3 GB file from the server to my desktop (it's a gigabyte network) and the copy started off about 80 MB per second and gradually slowed down. It seemed to average about 70 MB. Going the other way, the copy started off about 100-105MB but slowed down to about 60 MB half way through the copy, before finishing off around 80 or so. I'm not complaining about the copy speed. However, when I go to save a small spreadsheet, it's taking about 5 or 6 seconds--the same sort of time that it would take to transfer a half gig file. Something is strange there. Where it has become almost unusable is in editing jpgs. The other day, I was looking as some pictures I had taken and stored on the server. I had to rotate many of them by 90 degrees and save the new version. Done locally, the rotation and save takes under 1 second. I was using ACDSEE's Photomanager, running on a client, reading and saving the jpgs to the server. Done locally, the rotation and save would take about 1 second. Done off of the server, the rotation was still very quick, but the saves were taking five or six seconds (several times, I was informed that ACDSEE had stopped responding, but after the five or six seconds passed, things returned to normal.) Similarly, working with a small spreadsheet (spreadsheet stored on server, work done on client), saves were taking 5 or 6 seconds, with an occasional "Excel has stopped responding" message.
So, I'm NOT complaining about the general speed of my little network, it's just the saves where something strange is going on.
Ed
