Vista - Access to Intranet OK, Internet Dog-Slow

I'm the sysadmin for a small school district with around 1,500 Windows
machines, and I'm testing Vista for us. On my test platform, I'm having a
problem that has existed since the earliest betas, and continues even with
the latest.

The issue is that access to networks beyond our own Intranet is EXTREMELY
slow. Like, slower than dialup. Everything works fine when I browse our Web
site, but once I go beyond out network the Web becomes just about unusable.
Traceroutes don't show any obvious problems; ping response times are normal.

Has anyone come across anything like this? Any ideas as to what the issue
might be? Some setting on our router that doesn't play well with Vista?

There was something about network issues with routers that had SPI enabled,
but the issue you have could still be something else as well. Have you tried
a computer with different brand network card? Could be the network drivers
too..


"John Hornbuckle" <JohnHornbuckle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:77C6926A-52DB-4FEE-8290-680ED11A5879@microsoft.com...
> I'm the sysadmin for a small school district with around 1,500 Windows
> machines, and I'm testing Vista for us. On my test platform, I'm having a
> problem that has existed since the earliest betas, and continues even with
> the latest.
>
> The issue is that access to networks beyond our own Intranet is EXTREMELY
> slow. Like, slower than dialup. Everything works fine when I browse our
> Web
> site, but once I go beyond out network the Web becomes just about
> unusable.
> Traceroutes don't show any obvious problems; ping response times are
> normal.
>
> Has anyone come across anything like this? Any ideas as to what the issue
> might be? Some setting on our router that doesn't play well with Vista?

Unfortunately, the machine I'm testing from is the only one I can spare right
now--so I don't know if the issue would affect every machine on my network.
The NIC is a pretty standard Intel unit. I would've thought that if the
drivers were a problem, local traffic would be just as slow as Internet
traffic. But, anything is possible.

I'll keep looking for another machine to test from.


"droid" wrote:

> There was something about network issues with routers that had SPI enabled,
> but the issue you have could still be something else as well. Have you tried
> a computer with different brand network card? Could be the network drivers
> too..
>
>
> "John Hornbuckle" <JohnHornbuckle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:77C6926A-52DB-4FEE-8290-680ED11A5879@microsoft.com...
> > I'm the sysadmin for a small school district with around 1,500 Windows
> > machines, and I'm testing Vista for us. On my test platform, I'm having a
> > problem that has existed since the earliest betas, and continues even with
> > the latest.
> >
> > The issue is that access to networks beyond our own Intranet is EXTREMELY
> > slow. Like, slower than dialup. Everything works fine when I browse our
> > Web
> > site, but once I go beyond out network the Web becomes just about
> > unusable.
> > Traceroutes don't show any obvious problems; ping response times are
> > normal.
> >
> > Has anyone come across anything like this? Any ideas as to what the issue
> > might be? Some setting on our router that doesn't play well with Vista?
>
>