Just for the info: I use 14 seconds to open a share with 500 folders inside. That is from i doubble click it, till the content is fully shown. (And it is only the first time, guess it is some cache somewhere).
So I will say that browsing a share is usable, and this is over wireless. Ipw2200 card to a slow 600Mhz gateway/server -- smb access almost unusable slow in Dapper compared to Breezy https://launchpad.net/bugs/34203 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
