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<blockquote data-quote="dapun" data-source="post: 339885" data-attributes="member: 57446">Did some troubleshooting...So I was having the same types of issue with network drives and MP setup.. so what I did with my Windows XP SP3 setup is the following... I removed the antivirus to make sure that wasn't causing the issue and then I went ahead and tested out my network shares outside media portal and all played great in both Media Player and Media Player Classic. so I was thinking its something specific .. so I went in and toggled most of my shares to removable in the MP Config, which did nothing so I put them back and stumbled upon firewall exceptions in the Windows Firewall and set MediaPortal as a exception this greatly helped my setup. Aside from that I also did the ping test as stated above which returned normal results as well adding my pc's to the host file and disabling my browser service. In turn I now have solid performance from my my PC. Sidenote: I also went into my LAN driver and looked at some properties and switched it from Optimized for CPU to Throughput. Don't know if this help but I thought I mention it. Its running a Nforce Driver for my Lan Card.I love media portal..I always come here for help and figured I would help out when I can.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dapun, post: 339885, member: 57446"] [b]Did some troubleshooting...[/b] So I was having the same types of issue with network drives and MP setup.. so what I did with my Windows XP SP3 setup is the following... I removed the antivirus to make sure that wasn't causing the issue and then I went ahead and tested out my network shares outside media portal and all played great in both Media Player and Media Player Classic. so I was thinking its something specific .. so I went in and toggled most of my shares to removable in the MP Config, which did nothing so I put them back and stumbled upon firewall exceptions in the Windows Firewall and set MediaPortal as a exception this greatly helped my setup. Aside from that I also did the ping test as stated above which returned normal results as well adding my pc's to the host file and disabling my browser service. In turn I now have solid performance from my my PC. Sidenote: I also went into my LAN driver and looked at some properties and switched it from Optimized for CPU to Throughput. Don't know if this help but I thought I mention it. Its running a Nforce Driver for my Lan Card. I love media portal..I always come here for help and figured I would help out when I can. [/QUOTE]

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