I've experienced this my whole life, but I never got around to asking about it. I've searched online before but no one seems to have ever had this problem. Does anyone know why explorer slows to a crawl when browsing through folders over a network?

I've experienced this with Windows 2000, XP, and now Vista. I currently have a router with built-in 802.11g with all computers accessing the network wirelessly - I have no wired computers. It is slow accessing XP from XP and XP from Vista and Vista from XP (I only have one Vista machine).

Internet transfers are speedy, and I'm positive if I wrote a socket application that it would be very speedy over the network.

Any ideas?!?

Thanks!