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to: Glenn Meadows
from: John Beckett
date: 2007-01-08 11:50:06
subject: Re: Vista slow network

From: John Beckett 

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news::
> If it's a hardware issue, why would it not be an issue with Win2k or XP on
> the same hardware?

The claim is that Vista enables TCP receive window scaling by default
(which it should do!).

But earlier systems did not. So, routers and firewalls that incorrectly
process TCP options might have worked with XP etc, but give bad results
with Vista.

John

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