SP1 didn't fix slow network transfer?

Greetings, I have three Vista machines on my home network (2 Ultimate, 1 Home
Premium - all dual core, not too old). Vista runs great on all three
machines except that when I try to copy files over my network, I see that
dreaded "Calculating Time Remaining" and nothing happens. Sometimes it may
copy one file over but that's it. Then it hangs forever. when I click
"Cancel" it still hangs and I end up rebooting.

I waiting patiently for SP1, only to find that it made absolutely no
difference and did not solve the problem. I have scoured the web for
suggestions and done everything from turning off remote compression to
disabling UAC yadda yadda yadda.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would be most appreciative. Because I
waited so patiently for sp1, I'm beyond the free 90 days support from
Microsoft ... grrrrrrrr.
--
Jim W. Coleman
Port Orchard, WA

what NICs? what router? do you have the latest firmware for the
router? please provide some details.

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:56:01 -0700, Untangledup
<Untangledup@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Greetings, I have three Vista machines on my home network (2 Ultimate, 1 Home
>Premium - all dual core, not too old). Vista runs great on all three
>machines except that when I try to copy files over my network, I see that
>dreaded "Calculating Time Remaining" and nothing happens. Sometimes it may
>copy one file over but that's it. Then it hangs forever. when I click
>"Cancel" it still hangs and I end up rebooting.
>
>I waiting patiently for SP1, only to find that it made absolutely no
>difference and did not solve the problem. I have scoured the web for
>suggestions and done everything from turning off remote compression to
>disabling UAC yadda yadda yadda.
>
>If anyone has any suggestions, I would be most appreciative. Because I
>waited so patiently for sp1, I'm beyond the free 90 days support from
>Microsoft ... grrrrrrrr.

--

Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

A few things:

If you are connecting all machines through a wireless network, your transfer
speed will suffer greately if you are using a,b or even g (some N's are half
way decent in transfer speed).

Use a wire if possible (CAT5)

Use a good router or switch. if you are using a router, make sure you have
the latest firmware for the router.

If you are using a switch.. try to get a gigabit switch (with corresponding
gigabit ethernet cards for all PC's connecting) that should give you higher
speeds.

Defrag your hard drive.. it is amazing how much more throughput you get when
your drives don't have to seek the information.

Make sure you don't have spyware and viruses.. sometimes when a machine is
slowed down by the gunk out there in the internet, your transfer speed will
suffer.

In the bottom right hand corner you also see your network connection. Try
right clicking on the network connection and press on "Diagnose and Repair"
This should clear out any issues you might have..

If you are using a P2P program like bittorrent.. make sure you restart your
router and restart your computers. Bittorrent uses several ports at time to
send and receive information. If your machine doesn't have an open port or
is handling many torrents, it will slow down (if it even works) your file
transfer between computers.

If all else fails.. grab a crossover cable (search for the term online if
you don't know what this is) and connect one of your computers to another one
directly and see how the file transfer fares.

Also.. make sure your firewalls are off on all machines.. you don't imagine
how much trouble these can make when trying to transfer files.
Cheers,

Jerry S.

"Untangledup" wrote:

> Greetings, I have three Vista machines on my home network (2 Ultimate, 1 Home
> Premium - all dual core, not too old). Vista runs great on all three
> machines except that when I try to copy files over my network, I see that
> dreaded "Calculating Time Remaining" and nothing happens. Sometimes it may
> copy one file over but that's it. Then it hangs forever. when I click
> "Cancel" it still hangs and I end up rebooting.
>
> I waiting patiently for SP1, only to find that it made absolutely no
> difference and did not solve the problem. I have scoured the web for
> suggestions and done everything from turning off remote compression to
> disabling UAC yadda yadda yadda.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, I would be most appreciative. Because I
> waited so patiently for sp1, I'm beyond the free 90 days support from
> Microsoft ... grrrrrrrr.
> --
> Jim W. Coleman
> Port Orchard, WA

In case you have MS Virtual PC 2007 installed on one of your machines: Try
unistalling it.
For me this worked.

"Untangledup" <Untangledup@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CBD3C2ED-C11C-4978-9AC7-CD0E976A7F6D@microsoft.com...

> Greetings, I have three Vista machines on my home network (2 Ultimate, 1
> Home
> Premium - all dual core, not too old). Vista runs great on all three
> machines except that when I try to copy files over my network, I see that
> dreaded "Calculating Time Remaining" and nothing happens. Sometimes it may
> copy one file over but that's it. Then it hangs forever. when I click
> "Cancel" it still hangs and I end up rebooting.
>
> I waiting patiently for SP1, only to find that it made absolutely no
> difference and did not solve the problem. I have scoured the web for
> suggestions and done everything from turning off remote compression to
> disabling UAC yadda yadda yadda.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, I would be most appreciative. Because I
> waited so patiently for sp1, I'm beyond the free 90 days support from
> Microsoft ... grrrrrrrr.
> --
> Jim W. Coleman
> Port Orchard, WA

Jerry, I turned off the firewall on my desktop (Computer Associates) and got
a 100 fold increase in transfer speeds (from 50KBs to 6 Mbs). I then turned
it back on and went to my laptop running a Norton firewall and turned off the
Norton firewall and tried to copy my 1 GB test file to the laptop. I got
speeds of 50 KBs again. I turned off the CA firewall in addition to the
Norton firewall and got my speed back. Conclusion: Norton doesn't slow it
down, but the CA software practically stops it, regardless of the direction
you are transferring files.

By the way, for Jim Coleman, Vista is offering 1 year of free SP1 support.
Use it if you need it.
--
Lyle
Montrose, Colorado


"Shedding" wrote:

> A few things:
>
> If you are connecting all machines through a wireless network, your transfer
> speed will suffer greately if you are using a,b or even g (some N's are half
> way decent in transfer speed).
>
> Use a wire if possible (CAT5)
>
> Use a good router or switch. if you are using a router, make sure you have
> the latest firmware for the router.
>
> If you are using a switch.. try to get a gigabit switch (with corresponding
> gigabit ethernet cards for all PC's connecting) that should give you higher
> speeds.
>
> Defrag your hard drive.. it is amazing how much more throughput you get when
> your drives don't have to seek the information.
>
> Make sure you don't have spyware and viruses.. sometimes when a machine is
> slowed down by the gunk out there in the internet, your transfer speed will
> suffer.
>
> In the bottom right hand corner you also see your network connection. Try
> right clicking on the network connection and press on "Diagnose and Repair"
> This should clear out any issues you might have..
>
> If you are using a P2P program like bittorrent.. make sure you restart your
> router and restart your computers. Bittorrent uses several ports at time to
> send and receive information. If your machine doesn't have an open port or
> is handling many torrents, it will slow down (if it even works) your file
> transfer between computers.
>
> If all else fails.. grab a crossover cable (search for the term online if
> you don't know what this is) and connect one of your computers to another one
> directly and see how the file transfer fares.
>
> Also.. make sure your firewalls are off on all machines.. you don't imagine
> how much trouble these can make when trying to transfer files.
> Cheers,
>
> Jerry S.
>
> "Untangledup" wrote:
>

Glad I could be of some help.

"Montrose Lyle" wrote:

> Jerry, I turned off the firewall on my desktop (Computer Associates) and got
> a 100 fold increase in transfer speeds (from 50KBs to 6 Mbs). I then turned
> it back on and went to my laptop running a Norton firewall and turned off the
> Norton firewall and tried to copy my 1 GB test file to the laptop. I got
> speeds of 50 KBs again. I turned off the CA firewall in addition to the
> Norton firewall and got my speed back. Conclusion: Norton doesn't slow it
> down, but the CA software practically stops it, regardless of the direction
> you are transferring files.
>
> By the way, for Jim Coleman, Vista is offering 1 year of free SP1 support.
> Use it if you need it.
> --
> Lyle
> Montrose, Colorado
>
>
> "Shedding" wrote:
>