Win7 Home Premium 64bit P2P networking slow

[jinjuku]

Oh yeah - I think you owe Microsoft an apology.

No, not really They've made our life hell in so many other ways that I get a pass.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Try updating nic driver or play with it's settings

Irv you win the prize. I don't know what that is yet but you earned it

Irv provided some solid insight (thanks Irv) , but I mentioned changing the driver several times ...

For starters I want a proper pos rep, not just a click on thanks

 

[jinjuku]

Sorry the BSA. Thx you did suggest it first.

Unfortunately the new driver is presenting some issues... Looks like USB to Ethernet is my next step.

 

[jinjuku]

I would reward you guys with a Lenovo Q180 but I'm just not that cruel a person.

Not real impressed with it at this point.

 

[jinjuku]

You guys will love this:

7.42 was the version on the Lenovo's. 7.61 fixed the Win7 to Win7 data transfers. Under either version our database connectivity was fine. Just SMB/CIFS issues.

I update to 7.61 and it breaks our credit card processing. You go to enroll a swiped card for a token id (PCI compliant we don't store CC data just a token identifier) and it stalls. Can't even swipe for at time of puchase (card present).

Switch back to 7.42 and our CC swiping works.

So 7.62 goes onto the the Lenovo that is hosting the data (it doesn't have a CC Swipe and is strictly file/print/db serving) and 7.42 goes on the two front desk workstations. Win7 to Win7 transfers work.

This is some of the most bizarre behavior I have witnessed over the last 16 years of doing Windows networking. I haven't had driver issues like this since Windows 3.11 WFW and the 3Com 3c508 ISA Red Nics with Netmanage TCP/IP stack (used to call it NetMangled).

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Very creative Jin, but I gotta be honest - I feel bad for you and I wish such hellish issues upon no one ...

-1 to Lenovo and especially RealDreck

 

[Irvrobinson]

This is one reason why a lot of enterprise customers choose a favorite brand of Ethernet adapter and stick with them. Drivers make or break I/O devices.

 

[jinjuku]

This is one reason why a lot of enterprise customers choose a favorite brand of Ethernet adapter and stick with them. Drivers make or break I/O devices.

I agree. I did this job reluctantly since their 'computer guy' was a joke. I took over a software dev company in 2003 and turned it around. That was the last time I did any heavy network design or installation of servers/desktops, multi-site replication, Cisco, load balancers the entire enchilada.

All their stuff is working great right now and much better then it was for the past FIVE years (yes they lived with the pain that long).

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I would never imagine what I would use iSCSI from tiny 4 disk nas in a SMB for two people in a gig network. Thin provisioning and replication.
... imagine something like this is now actually affordable unlike 10 years - i would have costed 100g at the least

Times change.. now our multi billion (aum) company runs from 6 esx 1u servers

 

[jinjuku]

On the opposite side of this:

Zyxel NSA320 NAS box with Marvel ARM5 CPU with on SOC disk encryption running ArchLinux LAMP + LigHTTPD and Secureshell.

Writes to SSD is ~190 MB/Sec and Reads are over 230.

It's ~$100. Add a 120GB SSD drive and we have a server for less than $200 that can service about 100 users hitting the web server HARD.

All running in less than 64MB of RAM.