From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote in message
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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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