SLOW FILE TRANSFERS OR NETWORK PERFORMANCE WITH SERVER 2008

if you are having either of these issues you can try to disable a new function in Windows Vista/Win7/2008 called auto-tuning.

Auto-Tuning allows the operating system to continually monitor the routing conditions (bandwidth, network delay, application delay) and configure connections (scale the TCP Receiving Window) so as to maximize the network performance.

However, I’ve found that certain NICs,switches, and routers do not understand this new protocol and it ends up slowing things down quite a bit.

You can find information on how to disable this feature here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951291

There is an automatic “fix it” download that you can run there if needed.

Karen Page

As VP of Sales & Marketing, Karen has been helping to break sales records since 1994! That’s almost 30 years of award-winning sales, helping to build Big Hairy Dog as a leading POS Software and Service provider…worldwide. She has a degree in fine arts (with a minor in business) from the University of Oregon, and with three amazing children and saint of a husband, Karen is still loving life in the Northwest—where she works from home in the Portland, Oregon area.

Her favorite pastime is tailgating at college football games with friends and family. Go Ducks!

Karen Page

As VP of Sales & Marketing, Karen has been helping to break sales records since 1994! That’s 25 years of award-winning sales, helping to build Big Hairy Dog as a leading POS Software and Service provider…worldwide. She has a degree in fine arts (with a minor in business) from the University of Oregon, and with three amazing children and saint of a husband, Karen is still loving life in the Northwest—where she works from home in the Portland, Oregon area.

Her favorite pastime is tailgating at college football games with friends and family. Go Ducks!