   Windows Vista slow networking
  I've installed Windows Vista Beta 2 x86, but my internet is very slow. It seems to sometimes do 200kb/sec and sometimes 200b/sec. I use the nForce 4 onboard 1Gbit Ethernet and according to nVidia the drivers come with Vista, no need for nothing fancy. So what the hell is going on?   
  Strange, Firefox makes no difference, downloads works flawlessly, but some sites don't load, ever. Google loads instantly, but the VC++ Express download page doesn't, no matter what.   ;So what teh hell is going on?[/Qoute]Beta 2lol, I'm having my own batch of problems with it. All you can do is hope to whoever you pray to that some guru on here has seen the same problem and knows the fix :) And no sorry I'm definitly not the guru :( sorry...;  Vista seems very memory intensive. It works great on my notebook (2GB ram) but on my desktop with only 512 it is sloooowwwww. It skips music when I try to play in WMP or Winamp. It's probably swapping a shitload or something. Seriously... 512 should be enough to run ANY operating system. (I bet OSX works fine with 512...)The networking seemed fine though. Firefox seems 10x faster than IE7 though...   ;Quote:Original post by curtmax_0Seriously... 512 should be enough to run ANY operating system.If 512 was enough memory to run any operating system, then what motivation would you have to upgrade your system?You're so money, baby. You're so money and you don't even know it.Ok, joking aside, will somebody make a list of tangible improvements Vista has made over Windows XP?   ;Quote:Original post by vNistelrooyStrange, Firefox makes no difference, downloads works flawlessly, but some sites don't load, ever. Google loads instantly, but the VC++ Express download page doesn't, no matter what.I had a similar problem...download speeds were great, but for a short time none of adobe's web pages would load.  It came back, so I don't know whether it was a problem with the web servers, but it was wierd.   ;  There are some networking issues with Vista currently but then again you are using a beta.Some improvements that Vista has over XP (that I've noticed)* LUA which works better than XP's. As one of the few people that actually uses the Limited account on XP as my default account I can tell you that Vista's handling of limited accounts is worlds ahead of XP. Yes, right now there are a lot of confirmation dialogs but hopefully some will be condensed in later releases* The Word Wheel (Start Menu search). I've found the Word Wheel to be faster than moving through menus* The Property System. Although not as extensive as it was planned on being, it's still very possible to assign a mindblowing number of properties to your files and I believe still possible to query based on these properties.* Faster start up. I have Vista and XP Pro dual booting from my machine at work and Vista boots faster.* Many small things like the improvements to the treeview in Explorer (did you notice that it will expand the folders until it gets to one that is nonempty?) and the file view in Explorer. Also, live window previews in the Rollodex (Win+Tab), Alt Tab, and in the taskbar thumbnails (hold your mouse over a taskbar button).Yes, Vista has some problems but remember that it is still a beta. It's not even release candidate status.   ;Quote:Original post by curtmax_0Seriously... 512 should be enough to run ANY operating system. (I bet OSX works fine with 512...)It works "okay" with 512MB. It ran much better in previous revisions with less memory. I'm using 768MB. I remember complaining that Windows XP wouldn't run worth shit with less than 256MB back in the day, and being surprised that anyone would ever have 256MB of RAM in their PC.All of our damn operating systems are bloated. [sick]   