Slow network speeds when transferring files

Thank you guys for your assistance, I finally got these two computers to talk to each other -
1. I needed to disable the firewall on the XP machine.

[edit: I've split this from the original thread, so these comments apply to URL - Edwin]

Now, there is a different problem, the connection between the two computers is super slow. Both computers communicate with the Internet without a noticeable delays but when it comes to, say, opening a document stored on computer 1 from computer 2 it is far too slow (to both directions that is, from computer 1 to computer 2, and from computer 2 to computer 1).
I tried disabling/enabling WAP but it did not give me any noticeable changes.

Many Thanks,
Richard

I'm not sure about this, but some of the suggestions here may help:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Ope...Q_20770959.html

(although they didn't help the original author of the question).

I'm assuming that this system is wireless? Try changing the channels on your system and see if that helps any.

-DudeDomain