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to: Geo.
from: Gary Britt
date: 2007-01-03 19:15:46
subject: Re: Vista slow network

From: Gary Britt 

Have you tried TcpOptimizer to set your tcp receive window size and other
settings?  I don't know if they have a Vista version or if the XP version
works on Vista though.  You can get it from speedguide.net among other
places.

Gary

Geo. wrote:
> I've now confirmed that lots of people are seeing 5mb transfer rates
> with vista over gigabit networks.
>
> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=519457&st=30
>
> that's my problem exactly, I've tried everything they suggested, nothing
> worked so far.
>
> Just as a test, while transferring 18 gig of files I tried to browse the
> internet and it browsed really really slow (like 2 minutes to bring up a
> page) while browsing from my other laptop on the same network was quick
> and crisp as ever.
>
> it's definitely in vista, hard drive barely flickers so I don't think
> it's HD speed, cpu is 5%, plenty of memory free..
>
> Next I'm going to completely uninstall IPv6 and the QOS provider.
>
> Geo.

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