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Author Topic: Vista go-slow  (Read 16788 times)

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Vista go-slow
« on: August 30, 2007, 09:35:48 PM »

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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2007, 07:05:46 AM »

As a Windows-free household, I couldn't possibly comment. :-X
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2007, 11:35:57 AM »

Interesting.. 
reading between all the gumph seems like this could be a problem on some networks using gigabit ethernet. 
Theres a lot of reading for associated stuff but and someone said it would appear that MS only tested on 10/100Mb networks???

Info from one of the M$ guys here seems about the most informative so far
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2007/08/28/windows-vista-sound-causes-network-throughput-slowdowns.aspx

Essentially, the root of the problem is that for Vista, when you're playing multimedia content, the system throttles incoming network packets to prevent them from overwhelming the multimedia rendering path - the system will only process 10,000 network frames per second (this is a hideously simplistic explanation, see Mark's post for the details)

For 100mbit networks, this isn't a problem - it's pretty hard to get a 100mbit network to generate 10,000 frames in a second (you need to have a hefty CPU and send LOTS of tiny packets), but on a gigabit network, it's really easy to hit the limit.


Now its hit the headlines lets see what M$ do about it  ???
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2007, 11:37:19 AM »

>> As a Windows-free household, I couldn't possibly comment.

heh so you did it and  the lappy is now linux too?
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2007, 12:40:00 PM »

As a Windows-free household, I couldn't possibly comment. :-X


must be dark ??
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2007, 12:43:32 PM »

>>> heh so you did it and  the lappy is now linux too?

Yes, I only left it there until I was sure that everything (including the wireless interface) would work properly with Linux, which it does, and then I happily wiped the HD and started from scratch.
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2007, 12:45:09 PM »

>>> must be dark ??

Ho ho :P
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2007, 10:34:00 PM »

>>> heh so you did it and  the lappy is now linux too?

Yes, I only left it there until I was sure that everything (including the wireless interface) would work properly with Linux, which it does, and then I happily wiped the HD and started from scratch.


What distro did you put on ?.
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2007, 10:40:33 PM »

It's currently got Mepis 7 beta 4, and I'll upgrade it when the final release comes out in a couple of weeks.

I tried out several distros, and Mepis was the one which got the wireless interface working with no input from me at all apart from entering the security details.
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2007, 10:46:24 PM »

Long dark evenings are with us once more, so I may try a few distros again.
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2007, 08:19:08 AM »

yeah i know, 20:30 it was dark last night  :(
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2007, 02:05:38 PM »

There is a problem with Vista and wireless connections. The cause is the pickup of dns servers from the modem/routers dhcp servers. Answer: Manually set the DNS servers on either the router/modems DHCP server or the on the Vista Wireless network.
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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2007, 02:45:33 PM »

>> Manually set the DNS servers on either the router/modems DHCP server or the on the Vista Wireless network.

Thats good to know thanks for the tip.

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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2007, 02:48:30 PM »

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Re: Vista go-slow
« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2007, 03:52:03 PM »

Answer: Manually set the DNS servers on either the router/modems DHCP server ...

I may have missed something but how does that help? I can see how setting it manually on the Vista network properties can help, but if it's having problems picking up DHCP from the router anyway, is it not going to have just as many problems even if you set them manually in the router?

Like I say, I've probably missed something :)
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