Thread: Ultimate Win 7/Vista Nework Tweaking Guide

Hey,

I have been researching and tweaking my home network for a few years now and I have pieced together a really good guide composed of 4-5 different guides found on-line. It is primarily focused on a Vista/Windows 7 home media network.

It all started when my network (even though it is now a full duplex gigabit network) could not handle streaming anything over 10gigs from my media server without always adjusting buffer levels, media players, and codecs. As rips are getting larger I decided to buckle down and figure out why with the newest in networking technology I was still unable to resolve this issue.

To my surprise Vista/Windows 7 was the culprit the whole time. By default this OS not only compresses, confuses, and limits your network data, it also cuts off 20% of the network backbone and saves it for itself just in case a new windows update happens to be created.

Anyways, I figured after a few weeks of researching, testing, and tweaking, I would put together this guide to make it a little easier for anyone else with similar issues; or maybe, just anyone interested in taking their home network back from this network resource hungry OS giant.

Disclaimer: None of these tweaks are hacks. These are just settings hidden from you and can be easily changed back if a problem arises from it. Also like I said before, this is pieced together from stuff I sifted through from the internet for countless hours, tested, and tweaked on my own Windows 7 home media network. I copied and pasted the tweaks in this guide that showed the best results. Your experiences may differ. Please use at your own risk. Thanks.

The guide was too big to upload here so I added it to Google Docs. Use the link below.

The Most Important Windows 7 network Tweaks

P.S. Any feed back would be appreciated.
Did it help out any?
Are these obvious tweaks and why have I just now discovered them?
Did your PC explode in a glorious ball of flame after trying any of them?

Thanks again,

scrpio911