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So far I have been pleasantly surprised with my Vista install, a few things needed upgrading but no show stoppers. At least not until I copied a file from the media center machine. I was getting only a few mb/s despite the fact that both machines are connected via gigabit ethernet and have striped raid arrays. It only seemed to occur when playing audio…any audio, regardless of source. This wasn’t good at all.

via Courtney Malone » How To Fix the Vista Network Speed Issue While Playing Sound (Updated).

Like quite a few folks, I’ve been plagued by issues with Vista on a Gigabit LAN, namely seeing throughput that’s a fraction of what it should be. I tried the fixes Scott Hanselman outlined in his excellent Vista Gigabit post to no avail. The Google gods must have been smiling on me yesterday because I found an article I had not seen before: Disable Vista network autotuning. In a nutshell, open an elevated command prompt and run the following:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

I’m now seeing sustained throughput between Vista and other machines on my network in the neighborhood of 80-100 MB/s. From what I’ve read, none of these ‘fixes’ are needed when all machines are utilizing SMB 2.0, e.g. Vista <-> Windows 2008 or other Vista clients. Regardless, it’s great to finally be able to utilize all of my LAN bandwidth after almost a year of frustration.

via Vista Gigabit Performance Issues: Fixed – Jayson’s Blog – jaysonKnight.com.