From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:36:56 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>I sort of thought of that.  The laptop seems to suffer similarly whether it's
>net-connected or not.  I don't see much flashing of the switch's lights.
>(Windows seems to have quieted down in that respect since NT; you can actually
>tell when something's snooping.)

   One culprit I have seen is trying to reconnect to a network share that
is not available.   Although that usually causes a pause before the icons
are displayed.

>I just hate the packet shim you have to install to get Ethereal, et. al. to
>work.  It's among the most nuclear drivers I've seen. Come to think of it,
>with the stack changes in SP2, can Ethereal even work???

   Ethereal luckily still works with XP SP2.

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