Vista has slow network access

[Guest]

It would seem that the released version of Vista is a bit 'slow' when it
comes to accessing a network. With a gigabit connection and Windows XP,
Windows 2003 R2 servers, we experience a bit of a pause when clicking the
'Network' icon. Vista seems to look for Vista PCs first and then look for
other OS'. Here is the process:
1. Click on 'Network' from the desktop
2. Local PC name shows up
3. Approximately 2-3 seconds later, all remaining domain PCs and Servers
show up

This seems to happen all the time. Data transfer speeds are fine. It just
seems to stall when showing all the PCs and servers in the domain. Have
performed the following:

1. BIOS is up-to-date
2. Intel NIC driver is up-to-date
3. IPv6 has been unchecked
4. Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level has been disabled

Anyone else experiencing this issue? Is there a fix?

 

[Iceburg]

Yeap, exact same thing. You find a resolution yet?

IPv6 disabled
Auto-Tuning Level Disabled

Copy from XP to Server (3GB) - 15minutes.

 

[Guest]

Sort of. I spoke to Microsoft support yesterday. Not only did the confirm the
issue, the replicated it on their end. They 'say' that the delay is 'by
design' in Vista. It has to do with the new way Vista Pcs look for network
resources. Microsoft is trying hard to move away from Netbios traffic/Master
browser and this is the first step. We did numerous Netmon test and confirmed
all on our network was fine. ou can even open a Cmd prompt and do 'net
view' to see that tour network is fine.

Now with all that said, Microsoft did claim a number of people have begun
to complain about this issue. It ties into their WDS and NLA systems is what
we figured out. they confirmed our theory. On their own 200 machine network,
it took nearly 2 minutes for all PCS and servers to appear. So, the delay
increases in proportion to network device totals. Not good.

It is apparent to us (and then) that a serious issue has been uncovered.
Dunno what the boys in Redmond plan to do. they did admit it was 'worse than
they initially thought.' We'll see.