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Windows 7 put my network on steriods!!

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My file server is still XP, but putting Win7 on clients boosted the speed so much it's incredible! For wired i would average 15-30MBps. With Win7 I can sustain 60 on large files and 40MB on small files! Amazing! And this is still with and old 7200.7 120GB HDD. Xfering lager files is much faster with the built in copy manager than with teracopy.

Also on Wifi, it's even more amazing! I just stuck in an older Intel 4965AGN and with a Dlink dual band router get about 6MBps on XP. Win7 I get double! 10-12MBps sustained. I going to put Win7 on my server soon, but just having Win7 on clients seem to be enough!
 
You mean that for the price that you paid for the BigScam you still need tweaks? 😕
 
If my Intel 855 chipset were even supported in Windows 7 I would install it and probably agree with you, however intel and MS have left thousands of people like me screwed to save a bit of money on driver development.

I actually find Ubuntu 9.04 to be faster than both XP and 7. 7 is very nice though. There is still more bloat they can cut out but it's decent.
 
Originally posted by: SickBeast
If my Intel 855 chipset were even supported in Windows 7 I would install it and probably agree with you, however intel and MS have left thousands of people like me screwed to save a bit of money on driver development.
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Yeah it is not supported well as is, but with a little patient and few tweaks, it works well.

No Aero because the Graphics cards on old laptops does not have enough Memory.

I installed and Run Win7 RC on Sony VAIO GRZ630, Toshiba 1410, Dell 8200, Dell 8600, and Dell 1150 (all are more than 4 years old).



 
This is no surprise. XPs TCP/IP stack was still pretty bad and SMB (what windows uses for file transfers) has never been known to be a speed demon (tons of chatter back and forth).

Vista's stack was much improved, with some funky bugs. I'm not surprised if they finally got it right but I'm interested to see what standards MS still refuses to adhere to. Like Jack posted very early, you can achieve the same with a few simple stack modifications.
 
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