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sharing with vista SUPER SLOW
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I have a broadband connection and have set up a small home network between my mom's xp desktop, my vista desktop, and my leopard powered mac book pro. I can see all three pc's fine and transfers between the vista and xp desktops work fine but transfers between the macbook and the vista powered desktop are horrendously slow. 6.67kbps. Transfers between the xp desktop and the macbook pro seem to be working fine. Anyone have any idea what the problem could be?
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Any idea how fast the MBP's speed on the Internet is? Do a test with "speedtest.net" and see if it's the same or nearly so as the PCs. Report back the results-this is important information for figuring out what your problem is.
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I figured it out, as expected is was a complete Vista problem that didn't have anything to do with leopard. Had to get an obscure hotfix (they email you a link with a password as opposed to the regular hotfixes) to fix the problem. Something about vista and jacking up packet sizes or something.
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Packet size issues are a great way to hose your transfer speeds. When connecting to the Internet, your "MTU" controls this, and having it just one byte too big can cut your speed in half! Since this was on a LAN, I figured maybe you might have a problem like that and your MBP's Internet speed would probably make that obvious.
A Vista problem doesn't surprise me. A packet size problem that needs a special (and "super secret?") hotfix DOES surprise me. I'll have to pay attention to that when I install Vista later on.
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Originally Posted by sinosleep 
I figured it out, as expected is was a complete Vista problem that didn't have anything to do with leopard. Had to get an obscure hotfix (they email you a link with a password as opposed to the regular hotfixes) to fix the problem. Something about vista and jacking up packet sizes or something.
Stupid Microsoft. What a horrible way to do business — there's a bug, but no easy download. One has to apply for it!
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