I have the same problem with both the motherboards NVIDIA MCP 10/100
connector, and a NETGEAR GA311 10/100/1000 PCI card.
Only by opening the device manager and manually setting the network cards
communication speed to 10meg Full Duplex can reasonably reliable internet
access be obtained on my machine. Even then download speeds are very slow and
erratic.
Beta 2 installs a generic Reltek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver for
my Netgear GA311, but all attempts to access the web come to a screeching
halt after just a few seconds.
Disabling all the security options brings no improvement.
Firefox has no better success than I.E.7 with communication speed set on
default auto.
On previous builds bypassing all the gigabit hardware and connecting the
motherboard network connector directly to the router was an effective
workaround, but even that doesn’t help on this build.
Vista Beta 2 Build 5384
Shuttle SN41G2
Shuttle FN41 Motherboard
AMD XP 3000+ processor
2GB Corsair DDR3200 memory
Netgear GA311 Network card
Netgear GS605 Switch
Netgear DG834G ADSL Router
Radeon 9600 Graphics
Mike
"Sterck" wrote:
> in reference to this thread:
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...g=en&cr=US&p=1
>
> I too am having extreamly bad internet performance. This has been common
> across many builds, such as beta one. Feb CTP and now Beta 2. First the
> background..
>
> I run a pretty decent LAN at my house. I have a cable modem running 450/5mb
> roughly. I have that going into a Cisco 831 router, gigabit managed switch.
> I am runnin a win 2k3 server with AD. My network works well. I have 4-5
> computers on the network (with random laptops), 2 networked ReplayTV, an Xbox
> and PS2.
>
> On my living room machinge:
> AMD 2600+, 1gb ram, GeForce 5900
>
> I am using this box as my Vista testing site. Vista is slow. It pretty
> much idles at 500+mb RAM utilization. But with Beta 2, things (aside from
> memory) things are running really decent. I can copy ISO files from my
> domain controller to the Vista client in 15 or so seconds.
>
> My main concern is when I go to request a web server outside of my network,
> performance is terrible. Go to Nvidia.com to get the latest Vista graphics
> driver, and 1/3 of the page loads and then just keeps trying with no luck.
> Wait 30 mins, and come back, still waiting.
>
> Gettin a critical update from windows update is at 19% after 3-4 hours
> (trying to pull down 2.7mb)
>
> I read the threat that posted above, and it looks like the SPI part is the
> cuplrit. This sucks. Its not like Im running a low quality router, my Cisco
> 831 is a decent guy and Im running the advanced IOS on it that can do crazy
> things like HSRP.
>
> Does anyone have any work arounds besides dumbing down the router? I cant
> imagine what will happen when IT companies around the world try to put Vista
> on their corporate lans to find out that web surfing is essentially disabled.
>
>
> MS, any help on this? Its existed on at least the last two major public
> builds.
>
> Jeff
>
>