Very SLOW file sharing between XP/Vista

[Grand_Poobah]

I see several threads concerning similar problems, but not quite like
this. I have several XP computers that have been communicating just
fine between themselves for years. I purchased a nice Vista Home
Premium 64-bit laptop and set up what I thought was a good file sharing
system. Network Neighborhoods on ALL computers show each other as on
the network - they are all in the same workgroup - and the various
shared folders ALL show up nicely too.

My problem is that anything coming or going to the Vista machine is
glacially slow. A simple 1Mb transfer may take as much as 5 minutes to
complete. My network connections all show 100MB/s and between any XP
machine and any other XP machine a 1Mb file blows by in a second.

Connections appear to be fine, as I can "see" all my computers from each
other, just that the transfers are slow to/from the Vista machine.

I have followed suggestions in the other threads concerning setting up
network sharing, and a couple of them did help me over the rough spots,
but now I am stumped.

GP

 

[Grand_Poobah]

Well, my network appears to start transferring right away. I did some
tests with varying size files and found that between a 1Mb file and a
100Mb file the time difference was 5 minutes and almost 40 minutes.
This was from XP to Vista.

From Vista to XP takes roughly the same time. The "calculating" part
only takes seconds at either end - it is the transfer itself that takes
forever. At least Vista has the "More Information" button so you can
tell what the transfer rate actually is. In all cases it runs about
96KB/sec on a 100MB/s wired connection.

GP

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[Grand_Poobah]

They are already doing that.

GP

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[Grand_Poobah]

That is precisely the answer I was afraid that I would get. I have
arrived at that conclusion myself. Googling this problem in various
ways produces those "thousands of posts" you mention. I have beaten
this dead horse about all I can now. Time for me to move on and just
get over it I guess. My fasted time, believe it or not, is to burn a
CD/DVD on the XP machine and take it over to the Vista machine.
"SneakerNet" anyone?

GP

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[Kerry Brown]

Have you tried playing with the settings mentioned here?

http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001035.html

 

[Grand_Poobah]

Just tried it, rebooted, and - no change. I think these fixes tend to
address downloading/uploading more than intercommunications between
workgroup computers.

GP

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[Grand_Poobah]

Nope. Good thought though. AVG is on both of them.

GP

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