Vista - Windows Network Shares Painfully Slow

I actually had to go back to XP - I imaged my vista installation so I would
not have to redo everything if a fix is found... I have a funny feeling that
it may have to do with specific laptop hardware as I know others running it
on desktops flawlessly.

I just cannot justify the time to rebuild another computer only to have the
same issues...


"Michal Hyll" wrote:

> I have the same problem....transferring files from network server is only at
> about 2MB/s and the fact is, that i have 1Gb network!!!!
>
> Microsoft guys, wake up and do something with this!!!
>
> "rennera" wrote:
>
> > Hi I installed windows Vista Ultimate RTM on an AMD Turion64 2Ghz processor
> > with 2GB of ram.
> >
> > Everything is running very well except for explorer with network shares. It
> > takes anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes to open a network folder. The same
> > machine with XP is instantaneous. Other computers on the network are
> > instantaneous to the same shares as well.
> >
> > Using a Dell P4 1.6GHz on the same connection is also instantaneous.
> >
> > Exploring locally on Vista is very fast.
> >
> > This is a show stopper if I can't get this fixed. The only other thing I
> > have installed is Etrust Antivirus. I tried disabling Etrust and the
> > realtime monitor and it is still dog slow!
> >

No, it's not bacause of notebook. I tried it on desktop PC yeasterday also
and the same problem.

"rennera" wrote:

> I actually had to go back to XP - I imaged my vista installation so I would
> not have to redo everything if a fix is found... I have a funny feeling that
> it may have to do with specific laptop hardware as I know others running it
> on desktops flawlessly.
>
> I just cannot justify the time to rebuild another computer only to have the
> same issues...
>
>
> "Michal Hyll" wrote:
>
> > I have the same problem....transferring files from network server is only at
> > about 2MB/s and the fact is, that i have 1Gb network!!!!
> >
> > Microsoft guys, wake up and do something with this!!!
> >
> > "rennera" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi I installed windows Vista Ultimate RTM on an AMD Turion64 2Ghz processor
> > > with 2GB of ram.
> > >
> > > Everything is running very well except for explorer with network shares. It
> > > takes anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes to open a network folder. The same
> > > machine with XP is instantaneous. Other computers on the network are
> > > instantaneous to the same shares as well.
> > >
> > > Using a Dell P4 1.6GHz on the same connection is also instantaneous.
> > >
> > > Exploring locally on Vista is very fast.
> > >
> > > This is a show stopper if I can't get this fixed. The only other thing I
> > > have installed is Etrust Antivirus. I tried disabling Etrust and the
> > > realtime monitor and it is still dog slow!
> > >

I've been plagued by network issues ever since deploying Vista.
Network file copies go at around 500kbytes and I have a 1Gbit network.
I get around 1.6Mbytes (16Mbits) when downloading from the internet so it would be faster to upload it to the internet on one machine and then download it on the other!!!

I have tried everything to fix this including buying new business Netgear networking equipment as I was using the white netgear products before and buying new cables.

Even if I unplug everything and just leave the domain controller and one workstation on the network the speed will always still just start at around 4Mbits and then drop gradually to around 500kbits where it will stay for the remainder of the file transfer.

With XP it was always fast (around 10MBytes per sec I think).
I also get network shares randomly stop working for no aparent reason which in Vista causes all the machines to crash simultaniously if using roaming profiles.

I'm fed up with this problem and none of the suggestions so far have improved things.

Disabling IPv6 did help me a bit with the problem of network shares going offline though (still happens just not nearly as often).