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Vista SP1 release candidate will soon be available - the release is scheduled for next week. In addition to reporting the departure of the Windows "kill switch" for non activation, Ed Bott has been putting SP1 to the test and his initial results look very promising as far as network performance is concerned with some transfer speeds being tripled!
"Forget the reports you might have read about SP1 resulting in no performance boost. That story was based on a silly artificial benchmark involving scripting of Office applications. Back here in the real world, where gigabit network connections are now commonplace, you’ll see at least one huge improvement when transferring files over network connections.
In its original release, Vista had some design problems with its networking stack, resulting in slow file transfers, especially when connecting to computers running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Home Server (all three of these products share a great deal of their code base, including core networking components). In Vista SP1, file transfer speeds are dramatically improved."
This sounds promising. I've been chasing Vista network copy speed (and reliability) between machines on the home network for a while. I suppose I'll wait and see what else SP1 brings and try it out on the dev laptop.
This is a start in the right direction, now that MS has vista networking working as good as XP, maybe they can concentrate on getting the 10's of other basic funtions of an OS working up to the speed of the venerable older XP.
Isn't it wonderful that MS has spent 5 years and hundereds of millions of dollars developing a new OS that gives us less performance than their earlier OS, only to then spend more money and time on a SP to get one feature at a time back up to the performance of what we had before.
Three cheers for MS and their roadmap to a better future.
I hope that slaw networking in general was a major contributing point to horrible Video Library performance over network.
If it is, than one problem will be gone for me in returning back to Vista.
Absence of video file titles was the second and I have not heard about any progress on this issue.
I hope that by SP4 they will fix all issues and this OS will become as good as XP
I installed the RC yesterday and I now get proper gigabit speed instead of barely 100mbit speed. Transferring to another machine pre sp1 was fine but copying from another machine to my vista mc was pathetic, about 7Mbit no matter what I changed and tweaked. Now the same file transfers at 40Mbit.
I installed SP1 onto my Vostro Laptop last night.. All went well.
I decided to transfer a Bionic Woman eppisode from my Thecus to the desktop of the laptop just to see how its file transfering stuff went.. Explorer crashed.. hehe.
It recovered, collected crash info, sent it to microsoft and then started explorer for me again - so it was not the end of the world.. But was funny that it crashed.
There is no network speed improvment in SP1 RC1, I have tested on my home network with Home server and Vista, Transfers from Vista to Home server go at less than 1mb/s for large files over Ethernet or Wireless/g. This is a drop in speed from 6000 build of vista,
So how do you explain the massive improvement I and others have got after installing it? I did not change any other settings, just installed the service pack.
Massive speed improvement for me. Never been able to access my Vista shares wirelessly from my laptop, but now I can stream media stored on my Vista box no problems.
Just to clarify, My issue is with transfering files on a network from a vista desktop. I have no issue with accessing vista files from other desktops on my network. Also i can stream video and audio quite happily.
But if i try to drag and drop a file from my vista machine to any other machine on my network either wirlessly or cabled I get speeds of 1mb/s with SP1 prior to SP1 igot speeds of 2.5mb/s. Now that I have rolled back SP1 I am getting speeds of 400kb/s.
This is definatley a Vista issue as I have tested my network extensivly to determine where the fault lies.
Please understand that this is a known issue at Microsoft and I believe it has not been addressed.
I have done some testing of file transfers over a gigabit ethernet from a Vista SP1 PC to the Thecus 5200 Pro NAS (gigabit)
I get transfers of around 6 megabyes a second. So a 350 meg file takes around 60 seconds.
After doing that test, I tried coping the same file from the NAS to my XP machine.. This time it was conciderably slower (3min).. But its strange, as other times I can transfer files quickly. Its like the network speed is inconsistant regardless of the OS used.
What speeds are you guys getting when transfering from a NAS to your PC?
i`ve just installed Sp1 on my vista rig and have seen no increase in network speed . I`ve got all gigabit and am getting speeds of around 8mb/sec before and after update
. I`ve got all gigabit and am getting speeds of around 8mb/sec before and after update
