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Vista Wireless Performance Questionnaire
With the amount of Vista issues on the forum, we are putting out a questionnaire here to get more information on the setups to get get a grasp of what is happening. Based on user feedback over the la...
Hi,
You can glean the answers to most of your wireless questions on my posts:
http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24319
Let me re-iterate by saying that both wired and wireless performance of Vista PC is poor in my system. Wireless, by far, is the worst. It isn't even reliable. Therefore, I find that my Outlook Mail file, my iTunes Library, and my Lightroom2 catalog file become corrupted when I use these applications. (Note that I am not using the NV+ for backups but, rather, as my primary storage location.) I've lost maybe 6 hours of time due to an unrecoverable Lightroom2 catalog.
At times I've seen wireless speed approaching 100Mbps. This is with wireless-N only mode enabled, 40MHz channel BW enabled, and the PC located in close proximity to the router. The data stream, unfortunately, lasts only a short while because I can cause the connection to fail 100% of the time under these conditions. Because of this, I've been forced to 'throttle back' by setting my router to wireless-G only mode. This is contrary to the effort that I've made and the money that I've spent in upgrading my network. Still, I have to be very careful because it still fails now and again. What I think I've seen is that the system chokes when it receives a high-rate data stream. For me it chokes to the point that my only recovery is by re-booting the Vista PC.
I've tried NV+ MTU=1492, Vista MTU<1500, NetworkThrottlingIndex=70, disabling firewalls, turing off gadgets, etc. There are numerous antidotes reported on your forums, none of which have worked for me and for few others as well. Furthermore, all this confusion is not helpful. You, the manufacturer, are the only ones who can restore sanity. I don't know if the solution is to change some settings in Vista or for a new firmware release, but it is for you to figure out.
This problem makes me nervous because I've made the NV+ a key component in my network. I've spent quite a bit of money on this device and I haven't been disappointed until now. My immediate impression is that Vista has done something different that is incompatible with the NV+ and this has taken you by surprise. Therefore, it's not your fault. Yet, Vista is here to stay. (I haven't seen anyone offering a new PC with XP installed.) Here is an article dated 15 February 2007:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Vista-Kills-Networks-47208.shtml.
You can substitute 'NV+' for the words 'outdated network router' in the piece. It's not a well-written article but it seems to indicate that Vista networking problems have been known about for a long time. This brings me to the next thing about this problem that makes me nervous. We haven't yet heard a difinitive statement from your company acknowledging the problem, stating your determination to find a solution, and an estimate of when this solution might be made available. We are still waiting for you to lead us out of this mess.
Regards,
daveP
You can glean the answers to most of your wireless questions on my posts:
http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24319
Let me re-iterate by saying that both wired and wireless performance of Vista PC is poor in my system. Wireless, by far, is the worst. It isn't even reliable. Therefore, I find that my Outlook Mail file, my iTunes Library, and my Lightroom2 catalog file become corrupted when I use these applications. (Note that I am not using the NV+ for backups but, rather, as my primary storage location.) I've lost maybe 6 hours of time due to an unrecoverable Lightroom2 catalog.
At times I've seen wireless speed approaching 100Mbps. This is with wireless-N only mode enabled, 40MHz channel BW enabled, and the PC located in close proximity to the router. The data stream, unfortunately, lasts only a short while because I can cause the connection to fail 100% of the time under these conditions. Because of this, I've been forced to 'throttle back' by setting my router to wireless-G only mode. This is contrary to the effort that I've made and the money that I've spent in upgrading my network. Still, I have to be very careful because it still fails now and again. What I think I've seen is that the system chokes when it receives a high-rate data stream. For me it chokes to the point that my only recovery is by re-booting the Vista PC.
I've tried NV+ MTU=1492, Vista MTU<1500, NetworkThrottlingIndex=70, disabling firewalls, turing off gadgets, etc. There are numerous antidotes reported on your forums, none of which have worked for me and for few others as well. Furthermore, all this confusion is not helpful. You, the manufacturer, are the only ones who can restore sanity. I don't know if the solution is to change some settings in Vista or for a new firmware release, but it is for you to figure out.
This problem makes me nervous because I've made the NV+ a key component in my network. I've spent quite a bit of money on this device and I haven't been disappointed until now. My immediate impression is that Vista has done something different that is incompatible with the NV+ and this has taken you by surprise. Therefore, it's not your fault. Yet, Vista is here to stay. (I haven't seen anyone offering a new PC with XP installed.) Here is an article dated 15 February 2007:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Vista-Kills-Networks-47208.shtml.
You can substitute 'NV+' for the words 'outdated network router' in the piece. It's not a well-written article but it seems to indicate that Vista networking problems have been known about for a long time. This brings me to the next thing about this problem that makes me nervous. We haven't yet heard a difinitive statement from your company acknowledging the problem, stating your determination to find a solution, and an estimate of when this solution might be made available. We are still waiting for you to lead us out of this mess.
Regards,
daveP
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