Slow browsing after installing SP2 + Win 2003

[Defcon|Rich]

Recently we had a problem with a few of our staff that use Windows Vista to connect to the servers remotely and thought others might find this helpful.

 

Symptoms are very slow login and browsing on the remote server.

 

This seems to be a client issue which only occurs when using a Vista

workstation. From XPSP2 or W2K3SP1 clients everything works properly.

It appears the problems were introduced by the new networking features included with SP2. Disabling some of them client-side solved the problem.

 

 

Open a command prompt on your client pc and type the following:

 

netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

 

reboot

 

 

 

Hope this helps

[adamnp]

Wish you would have found that a week prior Still very useful information, no one cares atm, but as soon as they all start installing Vista, this thread will revive haha

 

Thanks rich!

[Monk]

RSS isn't the problem, autotuning is. Autotuning should be disabled, as it causes more problems.

 

RFC1323 should also be disabled, same with SYN Protection, among other things.

[Defcon|Rich]

Agreed, I understand disabling autotuning fixed this for some people but no luck here..

[24play1]

Hmm

 

Nice post Rich will save this to memory

 

My only issue is, my internets so poor, I wouldn't know if it was vista or not hehe.