# Extremely Slow opc.browse even when connection is fine **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition80\ **Created:** [June 5, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/extremely-slow-opc-browse-even-when-connection-is-fine/35357 "2020-06-05T13:17:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/extremely-slow-opc-browse-even-when-connection-is-fine/35357/1 "2020-06-05T13:17:43Z")
I am using the 8.0.14 nightly, and seem to be having some troubles with a simple OPC Browse I am trying to look through the folder that I have highlighted, and my script takes absolutely ages to run and then just times out. Is there some simple thing that I am missing here? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c00f0cefca10dc8994ae49367ae512f3924e5e55.png) EDIT: Also tested this on 8.0.12 with another gateway, same issue ---
**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/extremely-slow-opc-browse-even-when-connection-is-fine/35357/2 "2020-06-05T13:38:35Z")
Even if I add the SLC simulator and run the same example listed in the docs, it does the same thing and eventually times out. [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/system.opc.browseSimple](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/system.opc.browseSimple) You also cant interrupt it or it will just continue until it times out anyway. ---
**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/extremely-slow-opc-browse-even-when-connection-is-fine/35357/3 "2020-06-05T15:02:50Z")
We use browseServer for something like this. > [@OPC Browse Tree](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/opc-browse-tree/12291): > > Hi everyone, Besides dragging items from the OPC Browser into the Tag Browser and then using the Tag Browse Tree component is there any other way to give a client the ability to browse OPC tags? I’m thinking it’s possible with some logic, a bunch of system.opc.browse commands, and a tree view component but didn’t want to write all that if there was something obvious I missed. Thanks, Steve Steve wrote and documented a nice piece of code for it in the above thread. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/extremely-slow-opc-browse-even-when-connection-is-fine/35357/4 "2020-06-05T15:25:16Z")
Something does seem wrong with this function right now. It’s doing a recursive browse at too early a starting point or something. As suggested, use `browseServer`, which is always preferred to `browse` or `browseSimple` which should really be marked deprecated. ---
**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/extremely-slow-opc-browse-even-when-connection-is-fine/35357/5 "2020-06-05T18:03:44Z")
That worked! Thank you guys so much