From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote in message
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> 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).

I don't know what the rss thing does but the other thing was one of the
netsh settings I tried. I'll try the rss one in a few minutes.

> 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).

??? A minute of network traffic at 5mb/s? That's a lot of traffic.
Regardless I did use that sniffer you guys suggested and it's analyze mode
didn't show anything. There were at most a couple retrys and nothing that
looked like dataless packets. It looked pretty normal. However I
uninstalled it after that because the network driver it installs causes
problems on vista. (I am amazed at how incompatible vista is with stuff)

> Oh. What is a terraserver? (I've seen the Microsoft web site).
> And the traffic is not passing through a firewall?

terrastation, sorry
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/terastation-hom
e-server/
is what it is.

No firewall, terrastation -> switch -> vista, kept it as simple as
possible, all cat5e. Unplug vista, and plug in my W2K machine and presto
40mb transfers, vista gets 5-7mb.

> rss is 'receive-side scaling'. Bear in mind that I haven't used Vista and

Ok, just disabled that as well, will reboot and test it again.

Geo.

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