Vista Ultimate File Transfers Take Forever

Topology of my home network is that my main machine is in my bedroom, and is an HP tx1000 with Vista Ultimate, 2 gigs RAM, and using the wireless connection to my router which connects to my cable modem.

Directly attached to the router are my two Buffalo Terastation NAS drives which have about 1.2 T each, and rather noisy fans, which is why I don't keep them in the same room as the notebook.

My router is a Belkin with Wireless G plus Mimo.

It seems like file transfers from my notebook to the two NAS drives take much longer than transfers from my downstairs computer running XP. I'm wonderinf ig this has anything to do with the annoying "Calculating Remaining Time" that Vista Ultimate has introduced. I presume that files are transferring while it is doing that, but is that slowing things down, or just being annoying. Any tweaks (other than upgrading the house to N) that y'all can suggest to speed this up?

Thanks,
Ewan

 

Check out the Windows Vista Performance and Reliability Updates. There were a couple released in early September, and another batch released last week. They are supposed to really help increase network file transfer performance, although it still does not appear to be as fast as from my XP machines, right now.

Thread from here on the first batch:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=152511
Note: these may be available via Windows Update, by now

Thread from here on the latest batch:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=175103

 

Appreciate the heads up. From your comment, at least it's not JUST ME

Thanks,
Ewan

 

This is the only reason I went back to XP. I have vista imaged off and when they finally fix this problem I will go back.

Network speeds even after the performance updates are a SAD joke compared to XP, Ubuntu and OS X.

I do small business consulting and I take my HP notebook with me everywhere, jack in and often copy files to or from a small companies servers. The copy time for something like a CD, say Windows server, XP or something like exchange to or from a staging point on a server would take hours on Vista.

Oh the frustration!!!! This one problem so turned me off on Vista.

Just google "Vista calculating" and see all of the hits you get. There is some 400+ post on Microsofts Technet Forums about this issue....crazy.

 

The download calculation is usually high at first but then decreases when active. I don't see any difference between XP or Vista on downloading or transferring. Just make sure your USB port is 2.0 One reason too is that the laptop HD is only 5400rpm vs 7200rpm.

 

Yes, but for some, the transfer window shows 'calculating' for a long period of time before even showing a number of minutes/seconds. That is the terribly annoying aspect of it. It just wastes time calculating the number.

 

Some people expect more than USB2.0 speeds from network file transfers though.

 

Also, try hooking up into a wire if possible. Wireless connections are horribly slow for large file transfers...