Have MS fixed the vista networking slowness problem yet? i'm getting 900kb on a 1gbit

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As title really

Motherboard is IP-35 pro with onboard gigE by realtek cat 6 to netgear608 v2 switch and other side is onboard nvidia gigE on asus p5ne sli board.

Laughable speeds on a gigabit network tbh. 1MB when transferring large files

Not had these issues with xp to xp so hardware is fine.

I have NDIS 6 drivers , jumbo frames set to on, flow control is on. remote differential is off and also auto tuning is off.

go figure?

sid
 
Are you sure it's an MS issue? I get 40MB/s on mine even without jumbo frames. Can't test with them on as apparently my switch doesn't support them (lesson learnt: research before you buy stuff :p)

Are there any earlier drivers you can test?

I doubt this will help you but I'll post just incase; I was experiencing great speeds to my RAID set on my RH9 server but awful speeds to the root drive. Turns out DMA wasn't turned on for the / drive, after it was enabled everything is up to speed. Maybe the issue isn't connected directly to the network drivers. Just a thought, as I say I doubt it's the problem, but worth a look.
 
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Phil99 said:
Are you sure it's an MS issue? I get 40MB/s on mine even without jumbo frames. Can't test with them on as apparently my switch doesn't support them (lesson learnt: research before you buy stuff :p)

Are there any earlier drivers you can test?

I doubt this will help you but I'll post just incase; I was experiencing great speeds to my RAID set on my RH9 server but awful speeds to the root drive. Turns out DMA wasn't turned on for the / drive, after it was enabled everything is up to speed. Maybe the issue isn't connected directly to the network drivers. Just a thought, as I say I doubt it's the problem, but worth a look.
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I doubt it HD speeds,

HDDS at both end are seagate 7200.10s which do 60MB + easily in HD Tach and are DMA mode 6 enabled.

900k is too slow tbh, it also spends a while just calculating the left remaining.

Since i've got 2 indentical network connections, i've got different drivers for both installed and both have the same problem.


sid
 
Try using the command line or robocopy, something other than 'drag-n-drop'.

If I say 'drag-n-drop' a file to a network share on my desktop I get horrible speeds as well!

Cheers

HEADRAT
 
HEADRAT said:
Try using the command line or robocopy, something other than 'drag-n-drop'.

If I say 'drag-n-drop' a file to a network share on my desktop I get horrible speeds as well!

Cheers

HEADRAT
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ok i will try robocopy, i hope that works in vista64

edit/ If i use the other pc to pull files off mine i get 5MB/s which defo shows this is a vista problem imo unless some one can come up with a very clever explaination

edit2/ robocopy looks too geek for me tbh . anything else?
 
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on vista i had a problem where my network would get put to 10mb sometimes, when the ethernet card was a gigabit one and the router was a 100mb one (the router showed an orange light because of it being 10mb) and couldnt figure it out, its probably that :(
 
There are a lot of articles out there regarding this sort of issue. Network transfer speeds under vista are crap, but there are plenty of workarounds for it if you search google. Mine now flys (Vista32). Inter-disk file transfers also suffer a similar problem, again, fixable.
 
Rich said:
There are a lot of articles out there regarding this sort of issue. Network transfer speeds under vista are crap, but there are plenty of workarounds for it if you search google. Mine now flys (Vista32). Inter-disk file transfers also suffer a similar problem, again, fixable.
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I have spent a while trawling the web, as i've mentioned already some of the fixes don't work as described at all.
 
Isn't the issue something to do with Vista needing newer-version drivers for NICs than XP for Gigabit cards, otherwise you get the performance issues such as those mentioned by the OP? I believe it's something to do with the TCP/IP v6 support..?

Try this link http://www.neoblog.co.uk/?p=13
 
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Isn't the issue something to do with Vista needing newer-version drivers for NICs than XP for Gigabit cards, otherwise you get the performance issues such as those mentioned by the OP? I believe it's something to do with the TCP/IP v6 support..?

Try this link http://www.neoblog.co.uk/?p=13
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I've already done that and i've got NDIS 6.0 drivers which are needed for gigabit in vista

sid
 
I seem to remember reading somewhere that this is going to be fixed in SP1.

I really hope so as we have had to buid an XP PC for file management at work becuase Vista is just sooooooo slow.
 
I have exactly the same problem. I put it down to vista being rubbish i'm afraid. I have so many other things broken & not working as they should under vista network speed is not at the top of the list to fix.
When I want to transfer large files i dual boot back into xp & get 40%+ utilization over gigabit.
Sorry I cant be of any more help :(
Roll on sp1 for vista. Lets see if they can make this giant turd work for something as basic as drag & drop file copy!
 
m_cozzy said:
I have exactly the same problem. I put it down to vista being rubbish i'm afraid. I have so many other things broken & not working as they should under vista network speed is not at the top of the list to fix.
When I want to transfer large files i dual boot back into xp & get 40%+ utilization over gigabit.
Sorry I cant be of any more help :(
Roll on sp1 for vista. Lets see if they can make this giant turd work for something as basic as drag & drop file copy!
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I have low cpu utilisation, (quad cores here)

nothing makes sense tbh, i get 5mb when pulling from xp, 1mb when pushing to xp and 10MB when pushing to another vista pc

all 3 pcs are top spec ,
 
By "utilisation" I think he means network saturation, not cpu usage. Or in other works he is getting 0.4gbit+ transfer speeds (~50meg/sec+)
 
Strange problem this, under Vista 32 I had really bad disk transfer speeds, under Vista 64 no problems at all, does it a speedy as XP or dare I say it slighty faster. I dont know if a motherboard driver problem possible sata driver with Vista.
 
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Strange problem this, under Vista 32 I had really bad disk transfer speeds, under Vista 64 no problems at all, does it a speedy as XP or dare I say it slighty faster. I dont know if a motherboard driver problem possible sata driver with Vista.
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I don't have any problems with disk transfer speeds

Also I have noticed that the slow speed problem only occurs with larger files GBs worth really

smaller 20mb files go in flash as you'd expect

hmmm....
 
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