Yet Another Vista Sucks Thread -- network file transfer

[Gladguy]

Is it time yet for YAVST?

I've recently upgraded my main home PC, reassigning my old machine as a backup file server. I've put in a 640 MB hard drive in the new machine for media files, and I'm currently in the process of copying over files (via wifi G) to the new machine.

Vista Sucks. It takes 2 hours to transfer a single 700MB .avi movie file. My 13 GB of family pictures took 3 days, broken up into somewhat managable chunks of ~4GB each time.

This seems to be pretty widely reported, and accepted as fact. I've tried a bunch of the tips I've found on the web, but man... what a mess.

Vista Sucks. Bring on Windows 7.

[Morkilus]

It doesn't run Sim City 4 without crashing every 15 minutes or so.

BOO EA AND MICROSOFT

[rei]

install teracopy.

[JPR]

Do you know if your install have SP1? It was supposed to improve network copy performance.

[Aszurom]

Vista lacks telnet.exe

FUCK THAT PIECE OF SHIT

Also... install filezilla server on the machine, then FTP the files off at lightning speed. Windows file sharing = slowest shit evar

[ConayR]

Do you know if your install have SP1? It was supposed to improve network copy performance.
It does and that's probably what he's hitting.

[malchior]

Vista lacks telnet.exe

FUCK THAT PIECE OF SHIT

Also... install filezilla server on the machine, then FTP the files off at lightning speed. Windows file sharing = slowest shit evarVista doesn't lack telnet. It just doesn't install it by default. While that is annoying *especially for us network engineering types* it isn't necessary a fatal flaw.

[Fugitive]

(Edit: Durrr, never mind, missed that it was over wifi)

If your NIC is a Marvell chipset (99% of them are nowadays), it might be worth installing the latest drivers from their own site. I found on my system that the built-in drivers would seize up under heavy network loads (Internet access would be fine, but machine-to-machine FTP or rsync transfers would make it choke), but the updated drivers seemed to fix it.

[espressojim]

I had a massive problem with Vista file sharing and our readynas box. I host media files (itunes, etc) on the raid box, and my wife streams off the box and onto her laptop.

What I wound up doing, after weeks of experimentation, was to set the MTU on my NAS box, router, and laptop to be the same. After I did that, file transfers were magically almost as fast as XP.

After fooling with my wife's laptop for a bit, I'm convinced I can skip Vista entirely. It seems like game makers, with a few exceptions, have stuck to XP.

[Coca Cola Zero]

People still use raw telnet? If they were going to pack any such thing in to Vista it should be an ssh client. I just download putty.exe right away regardless of what version of Windows I'm on.

[mkozlows]

The Windows telnet client isn't useful for telnetting, but it's pretty essential for debugging problems with, say, applications not sending mail when the mail server people insisting that it's something broken with your application.

But while being able to send mail via raw SMTP is sort of critical for me at work, it's not a capability that home users are really in need of most days. Why, I bet many home users can't even successfully send mail just by telnetting into port 25.

[Jason McCullough]

Vista lacks telnet.exe

Use OCSetup (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936209) at the command line like this (http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/254394-TelNet-For-Vista-Error/) to install it, or click the box in add/remove windows features under control panel.

[Brad Grenz]

I copy large files routinely back and forth between my Vista x64 SP1 desktop and my laptop. Over a wired connection these copies max out the network speed. Either you don't have SP1 or your wireless network connection is just really shitty. I don't know why you'd try to do a major back-up over wireless anyway. Put the boxes next to eachother, if only temporarily, and use a wired connection.

[wumpus]

copying over files (via wifi G) to the new machine
FAIL

A usb 2.0 portable 2.5" drive would be a smarter (and much much much faster) option. They're cheap as dirt.

Or, go with external SATA if you want to get fancy and extra fast, but it's awkward because SATA has no provision for external power.

[dermot]

Vista doesn't lack telnet. It just doesn't install it by default. While that is annoying *especially for us network engineering types* it isn't necessary a fatal flaw.
It's not a flaw at all since *real* network engineering types download PuTTY as soon as they do a reinstall :-P

[JM]

Turn off remote differential compression, as well.

[EvilIdler]

Putty is my second download, after a decent browser. Then I move on to the games.