From: Randall Parker 

Modest proposal: Set WinXP and Vista to window scaling = 7 and then have them connect
to the Barkto server to see what happens.

Ditto for some BSDs and Mac OSX.

Mike N. wrote:
> 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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