Admin wish: Test the Network Enumeration

Post by **admin** » 08 Dec 2005 10:41

I'm rewriting the network browsing from scratch because various users reported various little problems. Obviously these things (if they work, how they work, how fast they work) are depending on OS and other environment parameters in a number of mysterious ways. So I see only one good way: test it!

Please download the following micro-app, press the buttons as indicated, and tell me what happens and how fast, and what's your OS. Thanks!

http://www.xyplorer.com/download/NetworkList.zip

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 08 Dec 2005 15:52

Allright.. I think I'm getting some weird results but...

Method 1
Time is around 28 when I'm lucky, 6 500 otherwise; but I cannot tell you why or when it's gonna be fast or slow....
Clicked 10 times, got the slow one time only.

Shares: always 1.2, but clicking on one computer list all the shares of all computers!

Method 2
Pretty much the same as Method 1, also clicked 10 times and got the slow results 2 times.

Same results for shares.

Method 3
This one's a weirdo. Once again sometimes fast and sometimes slow, but I get almost always all the computers listed twice.
Clicked 10 times, 8 times results were fast but double, the two last ones were slow. First of them was allright, the last one though had double the computers again.

For the shares, it took 1.2 too when it listed the computers rights, but around 4.1 when they were doubled (and then, all the shares appeared twice two.)

Method 4
A blessing

Time around 10 all the time, never slow, always right, yeahh!!

But, damn there's a but. When I clicked on my computer in the list, it listed only my shares in 1.1
When I clicked on another computer, it took 5.6 to get an empty list

I gotta say though, I tried to be as "accurate" as possible, but it doesn't obey a precise rule or anything... seems more randon than anything else
Maybe you should be an automatic thing. We click, it does every tests n times & write the results in a file that we'll send you or something...

Let me know what you want next.
Edit: forgot to say, I'm running XP Pro SP2

Post by **admin** » 08 Dec 2005 17:00

jacky wrote:Allright.. I think I'm getting some weird results but...

Thanks! I expected some weird stuff, but not that weird!

- I never get slow results.
- (3) also doubles results for me (XP Prof; but I know at least one Win98 user, where it works okay!).
- (4) is clearly the fastest.

That (1-3) list all shares is a bug

... fixing it now...

I'll also add some batch routine for speed testing; only it cannot check whether the results are good...

Post by **admin** » 08 Dec 2005 18:06

Ok, I fixed the bugs (no time for the batch, though).

Jacky, other 2000/XP users: please try if method (4) works ok for servers and shares.

Win98, Me users: please try which of methods (1) - (3) works ok for servers and shares.

http://www.xyplorer.com/download/NetworkList.zip

Thanks!

RalphM · Post by **RalphM** » 08 Dec 2005 18:18

admin wrote:- (4) is clearly the fastest.

That (1-3) list all shares is a bug ... fixing it now...

I'll also add some batch routine for speed testing; only it cannot check whether the results are good...

Yep, figured as well that (1-3) list all shares, but among them are the ones from a W2003 server, which aren't listed with (4) if I select that server.

Running W2K SP4, times were:

1. around 27'000
2. between 25'000 and 40'000
3. between 30'000 and 51'000
4. less than 10

and then all the server-wise share listing ops were below 15

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 08 Dec 2005 18:22

admin wrote:Jacky, other 2000/XP users: please try if method (4) works ok for servers and shares.

Yes, it does

My computer still as fast, around 20ms the 1st time, 8 after that for other.

BTW I clicked again on the 3 first buttons, and i noticed that for the 1st method (maybe others too didn't try that much

) sometimes it takes 9sec to get an empty list

But I'm on XP, and using the XP Method everything works great & fast

Post by **admin** » 08 Dec 2005 18:23

RalphM wrote:1. around 27'000
2. between 25'000 and 40'000
3. between 30'000 and 51'000
4. less than 10

Wowee! Those numbers speak a clear language!

I hope the new version (just uploaded) will work alright for method (4).

RalphM · Post by **RalphM** » 08 Dec 2005 18:24

admin wrote:Ok, I fixed the bugs (no time for the batch, though).

Jacky, other 2000/XP users: please try if method (4) works ok for servers and shares.

Win98, Me users: please try which of methods (1) - (3) works ok for servers and shares.

Ok, checked (4) again, all times between 6 and 14 msecs, looks pretty fast.

Post by **admin** » 08 Dec 2005 18:30

RalphM wrote:Ok, checked (4) again, all times between 6 and 14 msecs, looks pretty fast.

Yes, fast times are coming...

JustinF · Post by **JustinF** » 08 Dec 2005 20:27

My results:

Enum Servers: 6-8ms
Enum Shares: 3-5ms

Post by **admin** » 09 Dec 2005 10:02

JustinF wrote:My results:

Enum Servers: 6-8ms
Enum Shares: 3-5ms

Thanks, looks good!

Hey, old school users, I still need Win98 test results!! I can't start the update before I know what works how...
Download, and test methods (1)-(3):
http://www.xyplorer.com/download/NetworkList.zip

CyGho · Post by **CyGho** » 09 Dec 2005 10:34

Enum Servers Time: between 8-10 ms
Enum Shares Time: between 8-9 ms

Win XP Proff. (SP2) with WirelessLan (54Mb)

Post by **admin** » 09 Dec 2005 17:15

CyGho wrote:Enum Servers Time: between 8-10 ms
Enum Shares Time: between 8-9 ms

Win XP Proff. (SP2) with WirelessLan (54Mb)

Good good, thanks.

So it looks like Win98 users are not so interested. Maybe there aren't that many anymore, at least not among power users and professionals. I'll leave them with the old code then...

Creat · Post by **Creat** » 11 Dec 2005 20:32

ok here we go (sorry I had no time to read the entire thread, so I just copy-pasted the results... hope it still helps somehow...)

All on Win2K:

(1)
List 5 Server(s) in 35.069,919 msec
List 1 Share(s) in 0,417 msec

(2)
List 4 Server(s) in 4.656,531 msec
List 1 Share(s) in 0,290 msec

(3)
List 8 Server(s) in 234,846 msec
List 4 Share(s) in 0,338 msec
(Everything appears twice)

(4)
List 4 Server(s) in 23,609 msec
List 2 Share(s) in 37,680 msec

bye
Creat

Post by **admin** » 11 Dec 2005 20:39

Creat wrote:ok here we go ...

Thanks. So the new BETA should be okay for you, too.