Sudden slow in access

[pixelbob]

There is a possibility that your network has be compromised. Try scanning your system with Malwarebytes.

[deepsand]

There is a possibility that your network has be compromised. Try scanning your system with Malwarebytes.

How would that affect only external Excel files?

[edhan]

I don't think it is affected by malware. Anyway, did scanning with Norton but nothing comes up. Still unable to track the source of the problem though it is definitely network issue.

[deepsand]

Any recommendation for the security scan?

I was thinking along the lines that such scans might be triggered in real time, thus slowing the transfer.

This from personal experience with both machine-to-machine transfers in general, and local loading of Excel files in particular.

The latter is particularly vexing, as Excel seems to ignore my directives re. what to not scan; and, the degradation in responsiveness to Open commands, owing to the time required for such scans to be completed, varies greatly, for no apparent reason.

For a given file, the scan time is sometimes negligible to the point of not even being noticed; other times, it is frustratingly long. I suspect that this might be dependent on the number and natures of other tasks then running, though I've not had the time to test for such.

[edhan]

I am thinking of putting some network monitoring software to check on individual ip address to see the workload. From there, I hope that I will be able to find out any clue to why the sudden slowness.

[deepsand]

Concur. Absent knowledge of traffic volumes and processing loads, it's a guessing game.

[edhan]

Most of the times, there will be 4 users while the other 4 users are mostly travelling so their usage is low. As they are busy with their current projects, I am unable to do any testing. So, guess I have to put a pause until they have time for me to do checking. Thanks for all your suggestions.

[d2halice]

Try to clear the temp folder, it might speed up something. i hope so

[deepsand]

Try to clear the temp folder, it might speed up something. i hope so

What the hell do Temp folders (note the plural - there are many) have to do with network transmission speeds?

[edhan]

Yes. It has nothing to do with temp folders. I have yet to do further testing as there are huge projects currently needed the attention. Once I have the opportunity to test, I will update my findings and hopefully resolve this issue.