From: Gary Britt 

When hardware didn't work that worked before when you put OS/2 on it, it
was always OS/2's fault (at least as far as the public, Microsoft, IBM, the
press, and anybody outside of Canopus was concerned).  I feel the same way
about Vista.  If it doesn't perform as well as XP or Win2K on the same
hardware the problem is NOT upgrade my hardware.  The problem is VISTA not
properly adapting to my hardware or easily exposing configuration options
to make it adapt.

That's my opinion.  I could be wrong.

Gary

John Beckett wrote:
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news::
>>> 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)
>
> But how did you disable it? I think the only way is the netsh command with
> 'rss=disabled' (apart from a funky way in a URL I posted in a nearby
> message about using some diagnostics from within IE).
>
> At any rate, when you have some time, you should capture some traffic
> while the network is idle; then have your problem Vista box copy a file.
> You only need maybe a minute of traffic (or maybe longer if it takes
> longer for the problem to manifest itself).
>
>> No router in the picture, just a terraserver, a gigE switch, and vista with
>> the firewall disabled.
>
> Oh. What is a terraserver? (I've seen the Microsoft web site).
> And the traffic is not passing through a firewall?
>
>>> 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?
>
> rss is 'receive-side scaling'. Bear in mind that I haven't used Vista and
> haven't studied its technical documentation, but I believe that
> rss=disabled tells Vista to not advertise a receive window scale option
> (i.e. the scale would be 1, as it was in the original TCP spec).
>
>> (guess which finger)
>
> 
>
> John
>

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