From: "Glenn Meadows" 

On a lark, have you tried taking the gig-e switch out of the picture, and
using a direct connect with a crossover cable just as a test?

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Glenn M.
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>> In the same way, it appears that Vista has TCP window scaling enabled by
>> default
>
> Disabling that was one of the first things I tried (timestamps too)
>
>> So, it is likely that Geo's networking issues with Vista, while
>> frustrating, are actually a problem with a crippled router and/or
>> hardware
>> firewall. (Hence my earlier comment to capture network traffic.)
>
> No router in the picture, just a terraserver, a gigE switch, and vista
> with the firewall disabled.
>
>> One of the few intelligent comments said that if you can't upgrade your
>> router, you could disable RWIN scaling by running this as an
>> administrator:
>>
>> netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled
>> netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
>
> I tried the autuninglevel thing but what's the rss one do?
>
>> Of course by now Geo has completely fangled his Vista setup, so it is not
>> clear whether the above would be sufficient.
>
> This machine is running better than it has ever run before, even the
> fingerprint software is working.
>
> Geo. (guess which finger)

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