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

By: Thelovelyrics

Thelovelyrics — Mon, 16 May 2011 09:16:00 +0000

You can see a lot of Mac Tutorial here http://macguider.com

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:27:31 +0000

If one disables IPv6 on the Mac side, why is it necessary to change anything on the Windows machine? Seems like it servers no purpose.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:21:47 +0000

I could copy files at around 30MB/s across my gigabyte network.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:00:01 +0000

I’ve put off investigating for months what the cause of this was.. Thanks! Works perfectly.

By: Dave Ingham

Dave Ingham — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:06:56 +0000

Hi all. Did it and it worked perfectly. Up from 1MB/sec to ~30MB/s. So, the question is, when will disabling IPv6 on my Mac and XP sytems come back to bite me?

By: Wilco

Wilco — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:41:48 +0000

Wow! While my network speed is not quite up to 30mbs it i back to something that is a bit more managable. My problems starting occurring after I chucked my nasty old WRT54GL router and started using my airport express as my main router. All of a sudden mac to windows speeds were down the tube. Thanks to this – problem solved. AppleTV is streaming like a beauty again from the wintendo file server… Thanks!

By: diurnambule

diurnambule — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:29:08 +0000

Thanks a lot. The smb.conf customization worked perfectly for me. Now I can watch my linux smb hosted movies without lag…

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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