Vista SP1 Will Deliver Big Network Speed Boost
I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it. But after upgrading a few machines here and doing some tests, I changed my mind. If Microsoft’s decision to ditch the WGA kill switch in SP1 didn’t convince you, would you be interested in a 300% increase in tripling your network file transfer speeds?
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. In this post, I’ll describe what I saw.
I did two sets of file-transfer tests using two separate systems configured to dual boot between Vista RTM and the new Vista SP1 release candidate. Both systems have dual- or quad-core processors (both in the Intel Core 2 Duo family) The first group of files consisted of two large DVD images in ISO format, totaling 4.2 GB.
source: ZDNET Blogs
Tags: File, Microsoft, Network, SP1, Windows, windows vista
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BongoKongo on 21 Dec 2007 at 7:37 am #
well if made such a big difference to your machine you must be an idiot that had Vista configured like a toaster before you applied SP1.
It makes no difference at all to an already optimised machine.
All Microsoft have done is tweaked a few reg entries and then they have said that they have made major changes.
If you don’t believe me download SP1 and extract the SP1 exe using the command prompt and have a look. if you don’t know how to do that use Google to find out.
SP1 is just a heap of fixes stollen from Hack & tweak sites that where created by people who have nothing to do with Microsoft.
Arn’t you awake to the Microsoft motto yet??You can fool all of the people some of the time but you can fool some of the peole all of the time.
Guide on 03 May 2008 at 11:36 am #
Regarding the very useful remarks made by BongoKongo. Wow so much insite, for such a small brain. Now go play with you playstation, if you get lost on your way, use Google to look it up.
Barrie on 16 May 2008 at 2:10 pm #
Since I upgraded to SP1 Vista has solved the problems of slow file transfer by not copying big files to the network drive at all – after trying to copy a 5MB file for 5 minutes it has a littly hissy fit and pretends it can’t access the c:drive . Oh, if you are trying to overewrite a file on the network drive it decides to delete it.