DHES

Today I received the following email...
<hr>
I use the pos program over the network, my problem is that it runs very slow. The operating system I use is windows xp pro. I tried every setting but still it doesn’t solve the problem. If you may please reply as soon as possible, that will be highly appreciated.

Regards
Colourvision Technologies
<hr>
Since networks are just not my thing I am posting it here to see if any of you can provide some help.

This may be a quite obvious problem, Do you now if the user is using 10MBPS ethernet or 100MBPS ethenet? If it is 10MBPS, it is the culprit and needs obe replaced to increse speed.

I have the same problem with the network speed.
And I use 100mbps ethernet and switch for connection.
My first assumption is the lack of memory on the server.
Currently i'm using winXP pro, pentium4 2,4ghz and 256MB RAM.

Try a router for increased speed. that helped me once

check your ethernet card is function as it should be...I used to have the same problem..is just because of the old network card is not working well...

The other thing to check is if you havethe the NIC (ethernet card).
Justanother pointer
A PCI card ethernet card seems to run a bit faster than an integrated card

Kbunady,

Windows XP alone needs/wants 256mb RAM.
If you have onboard VGA that also use the system RAM it will slow down your system.

Other applications that run in the background may also slow down the server.

I use a freeware application - Back2zip - (http://free-backup.info ) to automatically do hourly zipped backups.
This does slow down any PC while it is doing the backup.

My feeling is that using XP on a machine that only runs DHPOS is quite a bit of a waste.

I'm using an absolute minimum installation of Windows 98 and with a P2 230mhz and an AMD 766mhz as "Cash registers" networked via 10/100 network cards to a P4 Celeron 2.66 Server with 512mb RAM.

The server is also used for some office admin and to manage the system and everything still runs generally very smooth.



POS Greetings !!!


ToPS

I have had this problem in the pst here is what I did.

1. Check that the path on the server and terminal is correct.
2. Defrag your hard drive
3. Check your system to make sure that you don't have any adware or spyware.
4. If all else fails, back up your stock table, and reinstall POS on all systems. This solved my problem rather nicely.

POS uses hardly any network resources at all, I should'nt even slow down even on a 10Mb network.

I've had issues with a POS server running on a P60 with Windows 3.11 and an XP PC accessing it, it would cause massive delays on the XP PC's POS screen. Round the other way it was extremely fast.

Running the server on an NT based operating system in a window may slow the system down however as Windows is emulating DOS and depending on your setup it sets less resources to a windowed DOS application.

Alan