Vista’s ‘virgin stack’ to speed up your torrents
Written by Smaran on October 03, 2006Windows Vista has a brand new Network Stack. According to tests conducted on both Windows XP and Vista, the new stack might actually speed up BitTorrent transfers by an estimated 10%.
We’ve been hearing a lot about how Windows Vista has a brand new ‘Network Stack‘. As I understand it, a Network or Protocol Stack is [...]
Windows Vista has a brand new Network Stack. According to tests conducted on both Windows XP and Vista, the new stack might actually speed up BitTorrent transfers by an estimated 10%.
We’ve been hearing a lot about how Windows Vista has a brand new ‘Network Stack‘. As I understand it, a Network or Protocol Stack is basically a set of gates that data must pass through when travelling to your computer from a location in the outside world (normally the Internet or LAN). The Network Stack is the part of the operating system that has direct access to your computer’s hardware. Programs running in the OS make use of it to send and receive data to and from the outside world. Your BitTorrent client is one of those programs.
The Network Stack present in Windows XP and Server 2003 was originally developed in the early 90s and “modified and enhanced over time.” Microsoft claimed in 2005 that Vista’s brand new Stack would deliver higher throughput and increase network performance for most users around the world.
Long Zheng of istartedsomething conducted some tests to find out if Microsoft’s claim would hold true.
He writes, “I performed 4 tests to prove/disprove their claim. I used a tool called iperf, which measures the maximum TCP bandwidth. I ran this tool 10 times for each operating system, half on a wired 100Mbit ethernet connection, and half on a 54Mbit Wifi 802.11g connection.” He goes on to say, “the results are clear, Windows Vista definitely improves TCP/IP network thoroughput.”
According to his estimates, BitTorrent transfers in Windows Vista are up to 10% faster than in Windows XP. And it’s not just torrents, but every other network/Internet activity will benefit from the new Stack as well, including http transfers, online games etc.
This would normally be considered good news, but a new Network Stack is almost certainly an unsecured one. Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte talked about ‘Vista’s Virgin Stack‘ on a recent episode of Security Now, the popular pod/netcast. Apparently, flaws that were fixed in the last decade in Windows 95 have arisen once again. We can only imagine how vulnerable computers running Vista may be, and wait for crackers (hackers with evil intentions) to do their thing and see what happens.
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instrad of a re-boot of the PC you can stop & Restart the Network connections in system to clear the IP stack, or create a cmd file the MUST be run as Adminstrator on Vista
Copy and paste the following into a text file and save as xxx.cmd
net STOP Netman
net START Netman
Echo “Netman service stopped & Restarted”
Exit
This article is total bullshit. Dont read this. There is no speed difference at all. not even a 0.1% improvement! i have tried Vistas 3 versions, and no changes in speeds. they remain exactly same.
I spend every day with download from torrent sites.Windows Xp was a god one at his time.All can i say Vista is working very well,and about speed, yes is true, is more faster than win Xp.
you are retards if you say it does not improve speed I have had vista for 2 months now and everything has dramatically increased in download speed. To say it is bullshit without knowing first hand is just ignorant I dont like vista but I will stand up for this aspect and say that this is most definitley a pro.
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nice text. Thanks!!![quote comment="57951"]I spend every day with download from torrent sites.Windows Xp was a god one at his time.All can i say Vista is working very well,and about speed, yes is true, is more faster than win Xp.[/quote]
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instrad of a re-boot of the PC you can stop & Restart the Network connections in system to clear the IP stack, or create a cmd file the MUST be run as Adminstrator on Vista
Copy and paste the following into a text file and save as xxx.cmd
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It does improve speed of any internet connection, at least of Internet Explorer and other web navigators and download programs, dunno about torrents… will find out that too
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