From: "Geo." 

One more piece of information about the possible bottleneck.

Just now I was copying several gig of files (at the slow 7.75mb speed I
keep getting) I was downloading from torrent at 200K and just for fun I
burned a new Knoppix 5.x DVD and everything seems to be working just fine
as in no apparent bottlenecks except for the slow network copy.

This really should not be possible.

Geo.

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> Yep, thanks for the suggestion but been there tried that. Even tried
> letting vista autotune itself. Made zero difference.
>
> I tried 2 simultaneous transfers initiated from vista to 2 other machines,
> maxed out at about 7.75mb which is the best I've been able to get so far
> (number of transfers made no difference).
>
> Personally, I'm starting to think it's in the NIC driver.
>
> Geo.
>
>
> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> news:459c49b0{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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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