Slow copying files over network

672MB at 196KB/sec Vista networking sucks. I sure hope MS gets this fixed. I
too have turned off everything possible. After installing the patch to fix
the hang on AMD CPUs. Before it would just lock up while estimating time.
XP64 to Vista 64. Yes Bill has my money too. I have a 15mb/sec fiber
connection and I thought I would never see broadband transfers faster the PC
to PC.

"boe" wrote:

> Sweet - I've turned off everything possible and even on an unmaged switch,
> Vista crawls compared to XP.
>
> <IceburgIV@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1174519021.988297.100060@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> > Doesn't help the situation at all, but wanted to let you all know I
> > have seen the same issues. I am migrating a XP laptop to a Vista
> > laptop. I transferred all the data in roughtly 10 minutes. Including
> > pictures, documents, etc. I then took the same network cable into the
> > Vista laptop and started coping backdown. The ETA is 1.5 days. I
> > cancelled and reboot after disabling firewalls, and virus scanning,
> > and all sorts of other things, similiar to what has been tried already
> > and still have the same issue. I hung up wtih Microsoft after I read
> > that didn't solve the problem. Beings that I am a MS partner I will
> > open a ticket and see what I can find out.
> >
>
>
>

"prisaz" <prisaz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9A919C3F-3509-44BD-9EBC-9DEC0CAFD14D@microsoft.com...
> 672MB at 196KB/sec Vista networking sucks. I sure hope MS gets this
> fixed. I
> too have turned off everything possible. After installing the patch to
> fix
> the hang on AMD CPUs. Before it would just lock up while estimating
> time.
> XP64 to Vista 64. Yes Bill has my money too. I have a 15mb/sec fiber
> connection and I thought I would never see broadband transfers faster
> the PC
> to PC.
>
> "boe" wrote:
>
>> Sweet - I've turned off everything possible and even on an unmaged
>> switch,
>> Vista crawls compared to XP.
>>
>> <IceburgIV@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1174519021.988297.100060@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> > Doesn't help the situation at all, but wanted to let you all know I
>> > have seen the same issues. I am migrating a XP laptop to a Vista
>> > laptop. I transferred all the data in roughtly 10 minutes.
>> > Including
>> > pictures, documents, etc. I then took the same network cable into
>> > the
>> > Vista laptop and started coping backdown. The ETA is 1.5 days. I
>> > cancelled and reboot after disabling firewalls, and virus scanning,
>> > and all sorts of other things, similiar to what has been tried
>> > already
>> > and still have the same issue. I hung up wtih Microsoft after I
>> > read
>> > that didn't solve the problem. Beings that I am a MS partner I
>> > will
>> > open a ticket and see what I can find out.
>> >

I found that it was not sufficient to just disable my third party
firewall, uninstalling it immediately solved my problem with very slow
push file copies from Vista.
McAfee Security Centre came pre-installed on the Vista PC, I had
disabled the Mcafee firewall leaving the Windows one ( and the router's
one ) but it made no difference. Uninstall did the trick and an Internet
speed test which had been producing nonsense results suddenly worked
correctly too. Heaven knows what else was being slugged.

Tom

HEY EVERYONE
Try this. Go to control panel and indexing options. Do not index your system
drive. I turned off indexing on everything I could. When I did this the
network took off. BUG?
The hot fix that Stuart spoke of did fix the lock up but not the speed. With
indexing off I am a much happier camper on the Vista.
This article (just released) may address your problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931770/en-us


"boe" wrote:

> Sweet - I've turned off everything possible and even on an unmaged switch,
> Vista crawls compared to XP.
>
> <IceburgIV@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1174519021.988297.100060@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> > Doesn't help the situation at all, but wanted to let you all know I
> > have seen the same issues. I am migrating a XP laptop to a Vista
> > laptop. I transferred all the data in roughtly 10 minutes. Including
> > pictures, documents, etc. I then took the same network cable into the
> > Vista laptop and started coping backdown. The ETA is 1.5 days. I
> > cancelled and reboot after disabling firewalls, and virus scanning,
> > and all sorts of other things, similiar to what has been tried already
> > and still have the same issue. I hung up wtih Microsoft after I read
> > that didn't solve the problem. Beings that I am a MS partner I will
> > open a ticket and see what I can find out.
> >
>
>
>

Same problem here on a 10/100 network. I get les than 1MB/sec more often
than not. I do get up around 8 or 9 MB/sec sometimes, but it's sporratic. I
use Dreamweaver and I have my testing server setup as a mapped drive on my
other machine. When I try and upload a file to the testing server in this
fasion I have to wait 30 seconds or more for it to go and DW shows 'not
responding' almost everytime right before it does transfer.

On XP this was so instant I could barely see the transfer window. I mean,
it's an .asp file less than 250kb.

I tried prisaz's idea of turning off indexing and the first test I tried was
with Dreamweaver. Didn't change a thing. Also, that would suck to have to
turn indexing off. That's one of the features about Vista I like.

"Blair" wrote:

>
> I have a similar issue, and thought I would share my findings.
>
> One Vista Computer, One XP computer.
>
> Gigabit NICs, Netgear Gigabit Switch.
>
> The XP computer has two shares -- one large, one small. Both shared are the
> entire remote volume on the XP system.
>
> The Vista computer has one share, and used to run XP. When it ran XP there
> were no performance issues.
>
> All systems register as being on the same "Local Network" for security groups.
>
> File transfers from:
> Vista --> XP Small share - 4-6 MB/sec
> Vista --> XP Large share - 700KB/sec
> Vista <-- XP Small share - 10 MB/sec
> Vista <-- XP Large share - 10 MB/sec
> Now, I remote desktop into the XP system, and try the same tests.
> XP Large share --> Vista - 11 MB/sec
> XP Small share --> Vista - 11 MB/sec
> XP Large share <-- Vista - 25 MB/sec
> XP Small share <-- Vista - 25 MB/sec
>
> I then set up the IIS FTP server on the XP system, and tried some file
> transfers.
> Vista --> XP 40 MB/sec
> Vista <-- XP 7 MB/sec
>
> I repeated all of the above tests using a crossover cable (to make sure the
> switch wasn't the problem) and got similar results. I also repeated the
> above tests with identical results with a second NIC.
>
> When trying the same tests with my XP laptop and the XP system, through the
> same switch, I max out the 100Mb inteface on the laptop.
>
> With this information, I called Microsoft support, spent a few days on hold,
> and got brushed off.
>
> My guess, is that it is something to do with CIFS and security settings. I
> have tried various changes in netsh, and gotten nowhere. I also marched
> through the services list disabling one at a time, and didn't get anywhere
> either. I haven't tried changing the services one at a time and rebooting
> between each change. That might be my next attempt.
>
> I might also try WireShark, and see if I can see anything unusual in the
> network traffic.
>
> My guess is that once the corporate customers start complaining, Microsoft
> will issue a fix. For the time being, I'm stuck with FTP.
>
> If anyone else has compared FTP vs CIFS speeds in a similar test, I would be
> interested in the results.
>

Count me as another one with this issue. It's not even just annoying, it's
absolutely truly pathetic that the windows team let vista ship with this
issue. Microsoft needs a MUCH better beta team.

rockstar wrote:
> Count me as another one with this issue. It's not even just
> annoying, it's absolutely truly pathetic that the windows team let
> vista ship with this issue. Microsoft needs a MUCH better beta team.

Hey!! We bugged things and it's down to Microsoft to deal with it.

I volunteered to beta but wasn't accepted - funny I found the issue within a
day of testing - but I'm not good enough for the group that passed it out
the door after a year of beta testing.

"rockstar" <rockstar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Count me as another one with this issue. It's not even just annoying,
> it's
> absolutely truly pathetic that the windows team let vista ship with this
> issue. Microsoft needs a MUCH better beta team.

[bloodx]

I fixed my problem by making everything Vista.
I tried:
Vista to XP = slow
XP to Vista = slow
Vista to Linux = fast
Linux to Vista = slow
2000 to Vista = slow
Vista to 2000 = slow

Vista to Vista = Fast either way. Except when play music or using Skype.

Kinda obvious what Microsoft has done here isn't it.

[TekzMekz]

Same exact issue here. Copying large amounts of files from WHS to Vista averages about 4-5 Mbps. I have a very fast system with SATA 3.0 drives, Gig NICs, Netgear GS108 Gig switch, and never had problems doing casual small copies. Only with large amounts of files.

Tried all the things suggested above, and no luck. The thing that did make a big difference was to disable the Windows Firewall on both ends and Windows Defender on Vista. Suddenly the transfer speed started going up, all the way to 47 Mbps, then averaged at about 20. I then started another batch copy, and now it is doing about 8.5 Mbps. Totally frustrating to say the least. Copying in XP is way faster. Most definitely a Vista issue that Microsoft needs to address.