He was saying that he has problems with a browser in Vista. Your solution
is to have him wipe everything out, install a BETA version of Windows
Server, which configuring it is probably out of his scope of knowledge?
I think you need your head examined. Why not tell him to trash his computer
and get a MAC?
"Kevin John Panzke" <> wrote in message
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> Aaron wrote:
>> Thanks! I was just about to post about speed (have 6mg broadband, Vista
>> Home Premium -- XP SP2 sailed. Vista -- Firefox and IE7 is 2x - 10x
>> slower). Tried your
>> solution -- and it seems to have speeded up browsing and downloads.
>>
>> Can you explain what ""netsh interface tcp set global
>> autotuning=disabled" does and why?
>>
>> And is this a permanent change, or is it needed again with every reboot?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron
>>
>> "richardf" wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Carl,
>>>
>>> I had your exact problem and I think I may have found the solution.
>>> Try this:
>>>
>>> 1. Right Click on the command prompt icon and "Run as Administrator"
>>> 2. Type "netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled"
>>> 3. It just sits there and should output "OK"
>>> 4. Firefox should suddenly be happy. This also fixes other issues
>>> related to slow network performance across domains.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Richard Fewster
>>>
>>> "Carl" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've posted over at Mozilla and gotten a few suggestions -- perhaps
>>>> folks here may shed some light on this problem. I'd like to confirm
>>>> that other folks are experiencing the same phenomenon -- that IE7+Vista
>>>> and FF2+XP load these sites (listed below) quickly but FF2+Vista takes
>>>> forever to load the pages. Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Web sites hosted on my server take forever to load when viewing them in
>>>> FF2 on Windows Vista. But the problem doesn't seem to be my server
>>>> because...
>>>>
>>>> 1. pages load fine in IE7 on Vista
>>>> 2. pages load fine in FF2 on XP
>>>>
>>>> How slow is slow? After browsing to a site in FF2, I can launch IE7 and
>>>> completely load the same page before FF2 finishes downloading the
>>>> images.
>>>>
>>>> I can only reproduce this problem on sites hosted by my server. I can
>>>> only assume some other sites would behave similarly but I can't seem to
>>>> find any. Here are a couple sites that are slow to load:
>>>>
>>>> http://drnaeve.com (old-school tables site)
>>>> http://envexpress.com (xhtml 1.1 served as text/html)
>>>> http://claremoredisciples.com (xhtml 1.1 served as text/html)
>>>> http://elsamaritano.org.ni (xhtml 1.1 served as application/xhtml+xml)
>>>>
>>>> These all share an IP address. I'll change something on my server if it
>>>> will help, but I'd like to know if the Firefox team believes there is a
>>>> problem with the browser as opposed to my server. The server is running
>>>> IIS6 with gzip compression enabled on Windows 2003 Server.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Carl
>
> Mine Field (Mozilla Firefox Nightly Build) Works Great On The Latest IDS
> Build Of Windows Server 2008 (Not Publicly Available), It Also Works Well
> On The Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 Public Beta, As Well, Just FYI.
>
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