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SalDog
My client has an Apple XServe located in a "co-location" server farm
which is providing very fast and reliable network speeds (10 mbps DL,
11 mbps UL). His office location is using AT&T DSL with DL speeds
around 3.5 mbps. The directory that sits on the XServe is shared over
the internet so my client can access it from multiple locations. Most
of the documents are MS Word files. They are using Intel based iMacs
with the latest versions of MS Office 2008. The problem my client is
facing is the horrible speeds of opening, saving, and closing Office
2008 files. It could take up to a couple minutes to save a document
they usually get a spinning beach ball while it's saving. Is anyone
else facing these issues? Are there any tips/tricks I can try to help
increase the speed?
Finally, just to make sure it wasn't the connection, I opened the same
MS Word document using Apple Pages '08 and it opened within 1-2
seconds. It saved the document within 2 seconds (of course I made a
couple changes to the document before saving it).
Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.
Best,
Brent
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which is providing very fast and reliable network speeds (10 mbps DL,
11 mbps UL). His office location is using AT&T DSL with DL speeds
around 3.5 mbps. The directory that sits on the XServe is shared over
the internet so my client can access it from multiple locations. Most
of the documents are MS Word files. They are using Intel based iMacs
with the latest versions of MS Office 2008. The problem my client is
facing is the horrible speeds of opening, saving, and closing Office
2008 files. It could take up to a couple minutes to save a document
they usually get a spinning beach ball while it's saving. Is anyone
else facing these issues? Are there any tips/tricks I can try to help
increase the speed?
Finally, just to make sure it wasn't the connection, I opened the same
MS Word document using Apple Pages '08 and it opened within 1-2
seconds. It saved the document within 2 seconds (of course I made a
couple changes to the document before saving it).
Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.
Best,
Brent
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