Connecting between Macs through Finder - performance

I have 2 Macs running OS X 10.6.4, "Red" and "Blue", on the same home network. Connecting from "Blue" to "Red" through finder (either for screen sharing or just browsing shared folders) is quick--takes just a couple seconds. Connecting from "Red" to "Blue" takes 30-60 seconds.
Any ideas on what might be causing this?
Thanks!

Thanks,
I dont think that is the issue - but trying it out made me realise that the difference between the "connect to server" and "connect as" functionality is probably MobileMe. Although I have back to my mac enabled on the work machine - it is behind a company firewall - which is probably restricting some of the back to my mac functionality.
I dont know why the "connect to server" seems to bypass this though. Unless the vnc port is open on the firewall (doubtfull) or maybe there is some invisible tunnelling going on.

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