Windows Vista and 7 poor network performance - Solved

[AstroGuardian]

Hello everyone,

Do you happen to know or have an idea why Windows Vista and 7beta have that bad upload performance? I noticed both at home and at work on different rigs. When i copy a file to a shard folder on another computer it takes ages. Maksimum upload speed is no more than 300KBps with short peaks of about 1Mbps.

I noticed it too with the Windows 7 Beta. I tried on 4 different machines on different networks and it seems like it's some kind of bug or is it maybe some feature?

Anyone has an idea?

 

[mellor]

well windows 7 is only a beta, so i wouldnt really be pushing for much there, but i have noticed the networking when i had vista, to be dead slow.

unless you have a really old cat four cable

 

[lopri]

http://www.anandtech.com/syste...howdoc.aspx?i=3233&p=2

 

[AstroGuardian]

Originally posted by: mellor
well windows 7 is only a beta, so i wouldnt really be pushing for much there, but i have noticed the networking when i had vista, to be dead slow.

unless you have a really old cat four cable

But i have Cat5e gigabit network

 

[AstroGuardian]

Originally posted by: lopri
http://www.anandtech.com/syste...howdoc.aspx?i=3233&p=2

I tried modifying the registry as stated in the review, but nothing changes. Upload performance is still around 200KBps.

Any more ideas?

 

[AstroGuardian]

Looks like a driver issue. I downloaded another older driver and the upload seems to work fine at this time.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Glad you got it solved. I was having a similar problem with my WHS to Vista machine on a Gigabit network. I was confused at 1st because data to and from a USB drive on the WHS would go full speed to a client machine, but to a local hard drive it was dog slow. Turns out WHS doesn't really like the Nvidia 7050 SATA ports unless you enable the raid function in the bios.
It took me days to figure this out because all my reading said WHS doesn't support RAID, so I never thought about enabling the RAID portion of the controller.

 

[AstroGuardian]

I like your signature Jeffrey 🙂

I totally agree with you 🙂

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: AstroGuardian
I like your signature Jeffrey 🙂

I totally agree with you 🙂

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