Slow transfers between to PCs?

External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 10

That patch is only for the hanging problem, which I honestly haven't seen
much of. From what I've seen those that have applied the patch still have
slow networking problems.

"IrishWraith" wrote:

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931770
>
> i am running vista64 ultimate and have this problem this KB says there is a
> fix but how do i get the files, over an hour to copy 100mb ona gigbait
> network, used to take less than a minute when i was runing xp
>
> "DRUAngell" wrote:
>
> > I am having this exact same problem. 2 machines both had XP SP2 prior and
> > now run Vista Ultimate. Transferring files between the two over the network
> > is horribly slow. Sit and wait on a calculating time window and then finally
> > it might not start transferring if i haven't given up yet. But many times
> > the transfer speeds are less than 1MB/sec. Not good at all. Other times I
> > get my full 10MB/sec or so, but it sitll has to "calculate time" first.
> > Rather annoying.
> >
> > "boe" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have 2 PCs - both were running Windows XP SP2 and now are running Vista
> > > Ultimate. When I trasnfer between disks on the same computer I get
> > > reasonably good performance but for some reason network transfers seem very
> > > slow compared to what they were in XP. Any thoughts on this? I can't find
> > > new network drivers. I can't seem to figure out how to set the priority on
> > > what network adapter to use.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >

External Since: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 8

I just got the patch by going through the nightmare of calling microsoft
support and installed it on my 64bit ultimate, it has made no difference and
i still have the problem

"DRUAngell" wrote:

> That patch is only for the hanging problem, which I honestly haven't seen
> much of. From what I've seen those that have applied the patch still have
> slow networking problems.
>
> "IrishWraith" wrote:
>
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931770
> >
> > i am running vista64 ultimate and have this problem this KB says there is a
> > fix but how do i get the files, over an hour to copy 100mb ona gigbait
> > network, used to take less than a minute when i was runing xp
> >
> > "DRUAngell" wrote:
> >
> > > I am having this exact same problem. 2 machines both had XP SP2 prior and
> > > now run Vista Ultimate. Transferring files between the two over the network
> > > is horribly slow. Sit and wait on a calculating time window and then finally
> > > it might not start transferring if i haven't given up yet. But many times
> > > the transfer speeds are less than 1MB/sec. Not good at all. Other times I
> > > get my full 10MB/sec or so, but it sitll has to "calculate time" first.
> > > Rather annoying.
> > >
> > > "boe" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have 2 PCs - both were running Windows XP SP2 and now are running Vista
> > > > Ultimate. When I trasnfer between disks on the same computer I get
> > > > reasonably good performance but for some reason network transfers seem very
> > > > slow compared to what they were in XP. Any thoughts on this? I can't find
> > > > new network drivers. I can't seem to figure out how to set the priority on
> > > > what network adapter to use.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >