Against my better judgement - given the recent press - I installed SP1 and
the speed has increased to 7 MB / sec. This is better but still not good. I
should be getting 10+.
--
qts
"Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:
Quote:
> Hi
> Try this one it works in Vista, and Windows 2003. I applied it to my WHS and
> it seems to work, but I did not have time to evaluate the overall outcome.
> So YMMV on WHS.
> TCP Optimizer - http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "Quentin" <msfeedback@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:30723F49-CA68-4E8A-A501-03DFB6DA902A@xxxxxx Quote:
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Cables are all checked: and it worked fine when I had an XP workstation
> > with
> > a W2000 server.
> >
> > How do I set the TCP Receiving Window? The Vista box's NIC (SiS) has a
> > Receive buffer setting in Properties with a max of 1024, but there's no
> > such
> > or similar setting on the Home Server (Intel NIC), and there's nothing
> > similar visible in the TCP driver entry in the registry - unless I've
> > missed
> > it.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > qts (MCPs: NT, NT Server, NT Enterprise, XP, Windows Server 2003)
> >
> >
> >
> > "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:
> > Quote:
> >> 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
> >> news:989D62C7-5D9B-40CD-8242-A06B628A0981@xxxxxx
> >> > 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
> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
>