From: "Robert Comer" 

I don't know if I have that kind of control -- it looks like it's set to 8
here in Vista.  (XP doesn't even have that option from what I see in the
packets?)

I'm using Ethereal to capture the traffic.....

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Bob Comer


"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:44cead4b{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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