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Originally Posted by AndyCalling
These are not registry tweaks and should not be changed there. For God sake, don't turn this in to a .reg file! These are command line tcpip settings. I am on a mobile phone right now, but the instruction to view your current settings will work in non-admin mode and you can always view your initial settings with this before you change anything. The instructions can easily be reversed. By the way, some games and sites (mostly EA stuff, poss. only EA stuff) will need ECN disabled temporarily to work).
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My apologies. Read too quickly, posted too quickly. Glad you caught it.
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Originally Posted by macutmore
..Where some Web sites offer similar tune-ups for Win7's and Vista's networking. Don't bother! Win7 and Vista dynamically alter their networking settings by monitoring local conditions and speeds. (See the Microsoft Technet article on Win7's "Next generation TCP/IP architecture.") It's unlikely that you can tune Win7's or Vista's Internet settings any better than they tune themselves.
WINDOWS VISTA / 7 USERS: Vista TCP tuning (tweaking) is NOT advisable. The Vista / Win7 TCP stack does a reasonable job of tuning the receive window dynamically, there are no known registry tweaks that would optimize Vista or Win 7 better than its default configuration.
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947239 I assume MS knows what they're doing, they document the RegEdit to allow IE, Windows Update, Outlook to use the full scope of TCP Autotuning. The text includes W7 information, even if the title and browser check deal only with Vista.
BTW - Mac OS X Snow Leopard also has browser speed limit. It's 512 KByte windowsize, so it's twice as fast as W7 or Vista.
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Originally Posted by AndyCalling
...This should give you the best speeds your connection will allow. Use it to check your settings from time to time to make sure nothing's knocked them out of whack.
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Please also pay attention to the NIC for best speed and reliability. Some of the TCP interface settings rely on collaboration between OS TCP stack and the NIC's own processor.
1. Go to the NIC vendor's website. Find, download & install the most current driver. There's still a lot of fixing & fine-tuning for W7 drivers. For example in early 2009 we found TCP throughput on our servers improved about 30% in tests when we updated to a more-current set of Broadcom drivers.
2. Review the NIC settings, typically an "Advanced" tab with the Driver info. Make sure all the assists are turned on. If you have 4 GByte memory or higher, double the number of "descriptors" or buffers for incoming & outgoing traffic.