Vista - Slow network with Vista, XP was Ok

Hi all!

I have Windows Vista Ultimate (x86) installed on my machine, and I'm suffering severe network problems at home after installing Vista, with XP everything worked fine. The following situation:

Win2k3 server / network router, which takes care of internet routing and filesharing. This PC is a Sempron 3000+ with 2 gig mem and 2 RAID0 Maxtor 200gig. The internal network card of the server is a 3com gigabit NIC, connected on a 3com gigabit ethernet switch.

Workstation:
Windows vista ultimate (X86), including all patches
Asus M2N SLI Deluxe
AMD 3800+ X2
2 Gig Memory
Asus Nvidia 7600 GS Silent
Using the Asus' onboard NIC (latest NForce drivers)

When downloading, copying files from the server, browsing in IE or Firefox, my network is very, very, very slow (200 kilobyte / second MAX). On my laptop, copying files from the server share to it's local is consuming the full 100mbit (laptop maximum).

This concludes to me that my workstation is the bottleneck "somewhere". I have already tried the trick with the autotuning:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=off

But it didn't work out. My netsh global is now showing the following:
TCP Global Parameters
----------------------------------------------
Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled
Chimney Offload State : enabled
Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : disabled
Add-On Congestion Control Provider : none
ECN Capability : disabled
RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled

Netstat shows the following:
TCP 127.0.0.1:50010 Willem-PC:50011 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:50011 Willem-PC:50010 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:50012 Willem-PC:50013 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:50013 Willem-PC:50012 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.16.176:49300 SERVER:netbios-ssn ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.16.176:50139 SERVER:epmap ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.16.176:50141 SERVER:1025 ESTABLISHED

ipconfig /all:
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Willem-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-17-31-F9-1F-7C
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::110f:6cf2:dedc:61a%9(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.176(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : maandag 12 februari 2007 18:51:48
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : dinsdag 13 februari 2007 1:56:48
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.45
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.5
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234886961
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.45
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

- I have tried installing the latest nForce 570 drivers from nVidia -> didn't work
- I have tried another network cable (same as laptop and another) -> didn't work

I'm really desperate now, can someone help me out?

I won't guarantee that this will resolve your particular problems but at
least MS is now aware of some network-related file access problems in Vista
RTM. Yesterday they released the following hotfix article that addresses at
least one of the problems:

https://premier.microsoft.com/kb/931770/en-us

or

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931770/en-us

for those of you without MS premier access.



If you think this issue affects you, you can obtain the hotfix from PSS.

Regards,

Stuart.
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"Dan" wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2:41 pm, Willemh <Willemh.2lw...@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have Windows Vista Ultimate (x86) installed on my machine, and I'm
> > suffering severe network problems at home after installing Vista, with
> > XP everything worked fine. The following situation:
> >
> > Win2k3 server / network router, which takes care of internet routing
> > and filesharing. This PC is a Sempron 3000+ with 2 gig mem and 2 RAID0
> > Maxtor 200gig. The internal network card of the server is a 3com
> > gigabit NIC, connected on a 3com gigabit ethernet switch.
> >
> > Workstation:
> > Windows vista ultimate (X86), including all patches
> > Asus M2N SLI Deluxe
> > AMD 3800+ X2
> > 2 Gig Memory
> > Asus Nvidia 7600 GS Silent
> > Using the Asus' onboard NIC (latest NForce drivers)
> >
> > When downloading, copying files from the server, browsing in IE or
> > Firefox, my network is very, very, very slow (200 kilobyte / second
> > MAX). On my laptop, copying files from the server share to it's local
> > is consuming the full 100mbit (laptop maximum).
> >
> > This concludes to me that my workstation is the bottleneck "somewhere".
> > I have already tried the trick with the autotuning:
> > netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=off
> >
> > But it didn't work out. My netsh global is now showing the following:
> > TCP Global Parameters
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled
> > Chimney Offload State : enabled
> > Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : disabled
> > Add-On Congestion Control Provider : none
> > ECN Capability : disabled
> > RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled
> >
> > Netstat shows the following:
> > TCP 127.0.0.1:50010 Willem-PC:50011 ESTABLISHED
> > TCP 127.0.0.1:50011 Willem-PC:50010 ESTABLISHED
> > TCP 127.0.0.1:50012 Willem-PC:50013 ESTABLISHED
> > TCP 127.0.0.1:50013 Willem-PC:50012 ESTABLISHED
> > TCP 192.168.16.176:49300 SERVER:netbios-ssn ESTABLISHED
> > TCP 192.168.16.176:50139 SERVER:epmap ESTABLISHED
> > TCP 192.168.16.176:50141 SERVER:1025 ESTABLISHED
> >
> > ipconfig /all:
> > Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Willem-PC
> > Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
> > Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> > IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> > WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> >
> > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
> > #2
> > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-17-31-F9-1F-7C
> > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> > Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . :
> > fe80::110f:6cf2:dedc:61a%9(Preferred)
> > IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.176(Preferred)
> > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
> > Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : maandag 12 februari 2007 18:51:48
> > Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : dinsdag 13 februari 2007 1:56:48
> > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.45
> > DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.5
> > DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234886961
> > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.45
> > NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
> >
> > - I have tried installing the latest nForce 570 drivers from nVidia ->
> > didn't work
> > - I have tried another network cable (same as laptop and another) ->
> > didn't work
> >
> > I'm really desperate now, can someone help me out?
> >
> > --
> > Willemh
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > View this thread:http://www.vista64.net/forums/showthread.php?t=38615
>
> I have the exact same situation - and no solution yet. I'm going to
> try a different router and switch as soon as I can, but I'm not
> confident that's the problem. Trying to grab files off of my Win 2000
> server or NAS Buffalo drive is way toooo slow, I reached about 8MB/sec
> today. I've tried every solution I can find including the netsh...
> command. Running Vista Ultimate factory installed on a Dell desktop
> with an Intel gigabit card...if you hear of anything let me know; I'll
> do the same. I'll get a new router later in the week - using an old
> Linksys now. DHCP on the vista box...
>
>