I have a Linksys RV016. I had to shutdown the firewall functionality
completely in order to overcome the problem. Shutting down SPI wasn't nearly
enough.
"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
>
>