ClassicConnect

[LyraNovaHeart]

Hey there! Of course, SMB had to be a little shit today, and it decided "let's be slow as fuck". Average transfer speed at first was 17MB/s (~137Mbps), then after a restart, I got around 36MB/s avg (~289Mbps). This isn't ideal, especially when both endpoints are fast enough, given my setup

Server (1 Gbps) ----> Router (1Gbps) ----> Laptop (866Mbps, 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5).

I expect more than 36MB/s, ethernet also weirdly wasn't affected, and while searching the web, I stumbled upon this command:

[alyx]

just explaining what this does and why it works

this command enables rss (obvious) which is otherwise known as receive side scaling. to put it simply, it distributes network receive processes across multiple cpus in a multi processor system (keep in note this doesnt use hyperthreaded cores, so itll only make use of say, 14c in a 14c28t system

heres the microsoft article on it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/introduction-to-receive-side-scaling

why this is off by default is beyond me

[VCSMaster]

Interesting. I wonder if this is a new change for Windows 11, since I've never had to make this adjustment on anything I use. All my machines are networked via SMB 1.x to have the same shared storage. Even in XP I've never really noticed speeds so low.