Vista - Improved WLAN performance

General inquiry...

I have an SMC 802.11b/g PCI card configured with WEP to an AP 6-8 feet away.
My bandwidth throughput (maximum sustained upload or download rates) have
been better in Vista than XP (same machine, dual-boot setup).

Am I the only person who has seen *improved* wireless bandwidth throughput
on Vista versus XP? ... or am I dreaming because Vista might calculate
throughput differently?

- naseru

Could be the new networking stack - although Vista is at Beta 2, I wouldn't
have said that the actual networking stack is at the same quality. Make sure
that IPv6 is disabled in your settings... and try bugging it )
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport - options to bug.

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--: Original message follows :--
"Naseru" <naseru@antideas.com> wrote in message
news:EA7F8090-32DC-4F4E-8E69-FE047836325A@microsoft.com...
> General inquiry...
>
> I have an SMC 802.11b/g PCI card configured with WEP to an AP 6-8 feet
> away. My bandwidth throughput (maximum sustained upload or download rates)
> have been better in Vista than XP (same machine, dual-boot setup).
>
> Am I the only person who has seen *improved* wireless bandwidth throughput
> on Vista versus XP? ... or am I dreaming because Vista might calculate
> throughput differently?
>
> - naseru

yes, you are the ONLY person experiencing better throughput. Good luck on
your side!

"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

> Could be the new networking stack - although Vista is at Beta 2, I wouldn't
> have said that the actual networking stack is at the same quality. Make sure
> that IPv6 is disabled in your settings... and try bugging it )
> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport - options to bug.
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
> --: Original message follows :--
> "Naseru" <naseru@antideas.com> wrote in message
> news:EA7F8090-32DC-4F4E-8E69-FE047836325A@microsoft.com...
> > General inquiry...
> >
> > I have an SMC 802.11b/g PCI card configured with WEP to an AP 6-8 feet
> > away. My bandwidth throughput (maximum sustained upload or download rates)
> > have been better in Vista than XP (same machine, dual-boot setup).
> >
> > Am I the only person who has seen *improved* wireless bandwidth throughput
> > on Vista versus XP? ... or am I dreaming because Vista might calculate
> > throughput differently?
> >
> > - naseru
>
>
>

Haha, thanks =)

"gautam" <gautam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E7E67D58-7595-42E0-B996-DC34BE0D8D0C@microsoft.com...
> yes, you are the ONLY person experiencing better throughput. Good luck on
> your side!
>
> "Zack Whittaker" wrote:
>
>> Could be the new networking stack - although Vista is at Beta 2, I
>> wouldn't
>> have said that the actual networking stack is at the same quality. Make
>> sure
>> that IPv6 is disabled in your settings... and try bugging it )
>> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport - options to bug.
>>
>> --
>> Zack Whittaker
>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>> not
>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
>> that up!
>>
>> --: Original message follows :--
>> "Naseru" <naseru@antideas.com> wrote in message
>> news:EA7F8090-32DC-4F4E-8E69-FE047836325A@microsoft.com...
>> > General inquiry...
>> >
>> > I have an SMC 802.11b/g PCI card configured with WEP to an AP 6-8 feet
>> > away. My bandwidth throughput (maximum sustained upload or download
>> > rates)
>> > have been better in Vista than XP (same machine, dual-boot setup).
>> >
>> > Am I the only person who has seen *improved* wireless bandwidth
>> > throughput
>> > on Vista versus XP? ... or am I dreaming because Vista might calculate
>> > throughput differently?
>> >
>> > - naseru
>>
>>
>>

Thanks for the reminder (networking stacks). I actually have IPv6 enabled
on both XP and Vista OSes, oh well. I'm actually interested in going
all-IPv6 in the near future.

- naseru

"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Oz9Qcm8hGHA.1508@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Could be the new networking stack - although Vista is at Beta 2, I
> wouldn't have said that the actual networking stack is at the same
> quality. Make sure that IPv6 is disabled in your settings... and try
> bugging it )
> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport - options to bug.
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
> not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
> --: Original message follows :--
> "Naseru" <naseru@antideas.com> wrote in message
> news:EA7F8090-32DC-4F4E-8E69-FE047836325A@microsoft.com...
>> General inquiry...
>>
>> I have an SMC 802.11b/g PCI card configured with WEP to an AP 6-8 feet
>> away. My bandwidth throughput (maximum sustained upload or download
>> rates) have been better in Vista than XP (same machine, dual-boot setup).
>>
>> Am I the only person who has seen *improved* wireless bandwidth
>> throughput on Vista versus XP? ... or am I dreaming because Vista might
>> calculate throughput differently?
>>
>> - naseru
>
>

He's not the only one. I went from 3-4mbs on my heavily tweaked XP system to
5-6mbs with Vista. While I find some aspects of Vista annoying, I may keep it
just because of that improvement.

"gautam" wrote:

> yes, you are the ONLY person experiencing better throughput. Good luck on
> your side!
>
> "Zack Whittaker" wrote:
>
> > Could be the new networking stack - although Vista is at Beta 2, I wouldn't
> > have said that the actual networking stack is at the same quality. Make sure
> > that IPv6 is disabled in your settings... and try bugging it )
> > http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport - options to bug.
> >
> > --
> > Zack Whittaker
> > » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> > » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> > » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> > » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> > rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
> > of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> > that up!
> >
> > --: Original message follows :--
> > "Naseru" <naseru@antideas.com> wrote in message
> > news:EA7F8090-32DC-4F4E-8E69-FE047836325A@microsoft.com...
> > > General inquiry...
> > >
> > > I have an SMC 802.11b/g PCI card configured with WEP to an AP 6-8 feet
> > > away. My bandwidth throughput (maximum sustained upload or download rates)
> > > have been better in Vista than XP (same machine, dual-boot setup).
> > >
> > > Am I the only person who has seen *improved* wireless bandwidth throughput
> > > on Vista versus XP? ... or am I dreaming because Vista might calculate
> > > throughput differently?
> > >
> > > - naseru
> >
> >
> >