Comments on: Mac OS X slow network performance to Windows XP

By: Zahir

Zahir — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:50:06 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion Eric.. I’m a newbie to mac and loving it thus far.. but my home/small business network is still using a xp pc as my file server.. tried your suggestions but tranfers are still painfully slow.. I’ve edited the smb.conf under the “global” section.. and disabled ipv6 on both systems.. restarted both and still no difference.. any other suggestions? Perhaps more tweaks needed on the xp system? My router is my DNS and WINS server.. and all firewalls are off (I know - bad bad bad).. perhaps a 3rd party transfer utility if there is any?

By: joe

joe — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:42:26 +0000

Thanks for posting this suggestion. Turned out all the macs on our office network had an old series of DNS Server numbers. (our Tech dept. didn't bother to update them)

As a result it slowed down these macs on the network while the computer, this whole time I thought it was an anti mac conspiracy.

By: Life in the Geek Lane » Network speed fix

Life in the Geek Lane » Network speed fix — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:08:56 +0000

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By: corydoras

corydoras — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:41:46 +0000

Macs have always been bad at networking with other machines IMO. This is one of the reasons that they have made little impact as general office machines at least over here in Europe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:54:03 +0000

God,I hate Macintosh.It’s as slow as hell!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:49:29 +0000

I’ve tried to add the socket option etc line to my etc/smb.conf file and the network is still slow. I assume this is because I have edited the etc/smb file incorrectly.

Does it matter where the etc/smb.conf file it is typed. In mine it is typed at the top of the “global” section.

By: echeng

echeng — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:58:31 +0000

Adam — you can’t just selectively ignore step 3… :)

This is a valid complaint! I want fast network sharing with 90% of the computer world.

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:09:14 +0000

You are still being snippy Eric. The Mac isn't hard to use - it's disabling your Mac so that your Windows box will be happy that is hard :)

Step 1 looks much easier than Step 2 in any case.

You need to let go of your fear. Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to Suffering...

Adam

By: echeng

echeng — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:52:48 +0000

I love that Macs are so easy to use. I mean, I use the phrase, “set ACK no delay by adding socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY to your /etc/smb.conf file” virtually every day in normal conversation with the general public! It was simply a matter of directing that energy toward my easy-to-use Mac!

By: Elliot

Elliot — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:48:33 +0000

It is going to start sounding like JWZ’s blog around here…