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Network speed is half or one third of speed on XP
  1. #1


    power 3 Guest

    Network speed is half or one third of speed on XP

    I have a desktop dual boot with XP and VistaSP1
    and a laptop with XP,

    when I move files from XP to XP via network the speed os fast

    when I move files from XP to Vista and vise versus, the speed is half to
    one third of when Im runing XP

    Why is this and how can I fix it...

    I have tried disabling firewalls and antivirus on both machines with no
    effect..



    something is fishy with the vista network..

    Please advise

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  2. #2


    power 3 Guest

    Re: Network speed is half or one third of speed on XP

    Canuck57 wrote:

    > "power 3" <power@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    > news:47fe30ee$1@xxxxxx-privat.org...

    >> I have a desktop dual boot with XP and VistaSP1
    >> and a laptop with XP,
    >>
    >> when I move files from XP to XP via network the speed os fast
    >>
    >> when I move files from XP to Vista and vise versus, the speed is half to
    >> one third of when Im runing XP
    >>
    >> Why is this and how can I fix it...
    >>
    >> I have tried disabling firewalls and antivirus on both machines with no
    >> effect..
    >>
    >> something is fishy with the vista network..
    >>
    >> Please advise
    >
    > Have you applied SP1? It helps a little. But like you, I can't get Vista
    > to copy files disk to disk or network to disk like XP. Vista has issues
    > here.
    >
    >
    In my post I say "VistaSP1", so yes I have sp1

    Even with SP1 its slow, and as you I have noticed the disk speed is
    slower than with XP.

    Any solutions anyone? I have the very latest drivers for everything so
    its not a driver problem.

    If I disable the IPv6 protocol will that do anything to help?

    ANy other ideas?

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  3. #3


    KDE Guest

    Re: Network speed is half or one third of speed on XP

    try this:

    On 24 Mar, 19:22, jdr.sm...@xxxxxx wrote:

    > > >....speed improvement in
    > > > file operations by disabling Remote Differential Compression. Control
    > > > Panel| Programs and Features|Turn Windows features on or off|Uncheck
    > > > Remote
    > > > Differential Compression. I have found no negatives to disabling RDC.
    > > > Hope this helps.


    "power 3" <power@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:47fe30ee$1@xxxxxx-privat.org...

    >I have a desktop dual boot with XP and VistaSP1
    > and a laptop with XP,
    >
    > when I move files from XP to XP via network the speed os fast
    >
    > when I move files from XP to Vista and vise versus, the speed is half to
    > one third of when Im runing XP
    >
    > Why is this and how can I fix it...
    >
    > I have tried disabling firewalls and antivirus on both machines with no
    > effect..
    >
    > something is fishy with the vista network..
    >
    > Please advise


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  4. #4


    DanS Guest

    Re: Network speed is half or one third of speed on XP

    power 3 <power@xxxxxx> wrote in
    news:47fe4ec6$1@xxxxxx-privat.org:

    > In my post I say "VistaSP1", so yes I have sp1
    >
    > Even with SP1 its slow, and as you I have noticed the disk speed is
    > slower than with XP.
    >
    > Any solutions anyone? I have the very latest drivers for everything so
    > its not a driver problem.
    >
    > If I disable the IPv6 protocol will that do anything to help?
    >
    > ANy other ideas?
    >
    Disable the on-board NIC and use a different brand NIC.

    Vista should have drivers for the tens of semi-generic NICs out there.


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