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Old 02-28-2008   #2 (permalink)
Jack \(MVP-Networking\).


 
 

Re: Slow networking between Vista Home Premium and Windows Home Server

Hi
Could be Bad network cable, or loose plugs connection.
Also try to set the TCP Receiving Window on both computers to 256960.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Quentin" <msfeedback@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Vista Home Premium one end, Windows Home Server the other, both fully
> updated
> via Windows Update (so no SP1). 100 Mbps network, full duplex.
>
> Both machines are 2 GB Pentium D Dual core boxes with RAIDed SATA drives.
> Server has a RAID 5 on a 3ware controller, Vista has a RAID 1 mirror on a
> SiS
> controller.
>
> My problem is that I’m only getting about 2 Megabytes per second transfer
> speed (approx 20 Mbps). Since these are the only boxes on the network, I’d
> expect to be getting full speed.
>
> I’ve tried disabling AVG.
> I’ve tried disabling Remote Differential Compression.
> I’ve tried switching to half-duplex.
> I’ve tried disabling TCP autotune and rss.
> I’ve tried disabling TCPA on the server.
> I’ve applied the KB947773 hotfix (updated tcpip.sys) which improved the
> transfer speed to 3 MB /sec
> I’ve tried turning off thumbnails. That reduced the transfer speed to 2 MB
> /
> sec!
> I’ve tried tweaking HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\NetworkThrottlingIndex
> I've tried changing the network switch into which they're both plugged.
>
> Anyone got the answer?
>
> --
>
> qts
>
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