- Was he saying to just put a copy on the desktop on macbook and open it?
- The whole slowness issue is that it's wireless.
- Yes, that was what he was saying.
- You cannot say that the wireless part is the problem until you show that a wired connection doesn't suffer any such slowdowns. If a wired hookup is both equally slow while remotely accessing a file AND slower than regular file copying (as in the test we're talking about), THEN it may be that Excel's handling of a remote file (as opposed to handling a local file) is the limiting factor, as V1 suggested.
This approach is all about asking questions the (unambiguous) answers to which allow you to
exclude certain possibilities, and to hone in on more likely sources of problems. Does that make sense? (It seems to me that you already answered the copy question, but not the wired vs wireless question.)
