Network Settings in Windows
by Bill on Dec.09, 2009, under General
Was doing some huge file transfers here on my home network (Windows 7 / Windows 2003 Server) and noticed that things were not as fast as I’d expect. When I installed Windows 7 on my wife’s Dell XPS 410, I didn’t do much tweaking with it. Well, in looking at what kind of throughput I was getting(Network Performance Monitor / DuMeter), it was what I’d expect on a 100MB Network. Being that I have Gigabit throughout the house I figured I’d do some looking. Moral of the story here…don’t settle with allowing your network adapter to Auto Negotiate! You’d think it would figure things out, but in this case it didn’t. See below to get a visual of what I’m talking about. Happy Networking!
