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to: John Beckett
from: Mike N.
date: 2006-07-31 20:49:36
subject: Re: Window Scale handling on Windows 2000

From: Mike N. 

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:29:27 +1000, John Beckett
 wrote:

>It may turn out that W2000/SP4 is confused by the window scaling = 7
>option used by default on Mike's Linux box. If that is true, then there
>should be a LOT of unhappy Linux people who get frustratingly slow access
>via TCP (nntp, http and maybe more).

  If Vista uses Window scaling > 1 (as Robert's experience seems to
indicate), there will be many cases where Vista will seem to have crappy
connections when Vista users connect to a server like this one.

  [It would have been much more entertaining to see a long thread titled
"My slow Vista Windows Mail on Barkto investigations"]

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