You may want to disable auto-tuning. this how to may help.
Vista IPCONFIG and Network SettingsHow to disable Auto-tuning on Windows
Vista How to disable TCP/IPv6 How to remove IPv6 and Tunnel completely on
Vista How to disable ICS public connection ...
www.howtonetworking.com/vista/vistaipconfig.htm
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"Scious" <Scious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> have a home network. Vista 32 ultimate and just installed vista 64 on a
> new
> machine.
>
> I have never transferred files between the computers much before but have
> needed to transfer about 500gb to the new computer (vista 32 - vista 64).
>
> However the transfer rate is under 10MB/sec which is actually pretty
> bloody
> slow. It seems to be limited to 10 MB/sec.
>
> The network goes through a router and is all cat5. The router is billion
> bipac 7404VGP
>
> The network adapters are on the motherboards - both gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P.
>
> I have Unchecked "Remote Differential Compression" on both computer.
>
> Any idea why so slow?