Does Windows XP have problems with ”modern” LANs?

[AndersJ]

My local network has mostly Windows 10 computers, and a Synology DS713+ NAS as a fileserver.
The NAS is a bit slow at times but it works well, and needs no keyboard and monitor.

All is well, but not lightning fast.

I also have a XP machine, for some legacy projects, and that is where I have problems.
It seems there is a timing issue between the XP and the NAS.

The XP is very slow to select files on right clicks.
File selection takes many seconds, and sometimes it fails totally to select files.
It seems like there is a long timeout before it fails.
30 seconds perhaps, or 60, irritatingly long anyway.

File handling  is generally slow, but works,
except för the occasional right click issues.

Does XP have networking issues, that were not present a few years ago?
Any remedies?

[Wilksey]

Not that I have noticed, I have a Netgear ReadyNAS and that runs the same speed from XP to 10, I run through GB switches, pfSense firewall and a set of 1200Mbps home plugs (TP-LINK), the drives are mapped through Samba 4 DC controller on Ubuntu 20.04 and I have the pfSense virtualised on ESXi, as well as the DC, so there are multiple network routes to go through and it gives me the speed I expect.

[tunk]

Look like XP uses SMBv1 and there might be some incompatibilities.
Maybe there's some settings on the NAS you can change.

[David Hess]

Other than XP being limited to SMB version 1, there should be no issues.  You might check that your switches and network cards have flow control enabled.

NFS can be installed on XP if you think it might work better than SMB.

[Mr. Scram]

It's worth mentioning SMBv1 has been disabled by default on modern systems after it turned out to contain a significant vulnerability.

[duak]

Have you checked into IPV4 and IPV6 settings?  Our home internet provider gave us a new router/firewall that defaulted to IPV6. An older iMac running Mint Linux couldn't reliably access some IPV4 hosts through WiFi.