Windows 7 home professional Networking issues
Hi All, I am a network designer and hold many certifications including my CCIE. I used windows 7 ultimated RC1 candidate up until a few months ago when I was forced to upgrade. I bought windows 7 home professional, and since then I have been having serious network issues. I have sniffed my traffic on 2 seperate boxes and found that my adapter is dropping my traffic due to resets. I have tried my integrated Gigabyte ethernet, I bought Dlink NICS, then I splurgged and went for some Intel NIC's. No matter what NIC I have in, It still resets. I constantly watch my putty sessions drop, streaming video (HTPC) stop and die. I have tried Giants, my home network supports all of it. I cannot get my NIC's on any Windows 7 professional box I have to stop resetting, or dropping traffic. I have tried almost every fix I have found on the inernet, including disabled IPv6, some registry tricks, and nothing has worked. Has anyone else had to deal with this? If so, what was the fix. I am at my wit's end. IF this was cisco issue, I could of fixed it, but its Microsoft, which I am not as good at. Thanks for everyones time.
April 15th, 2010 7:08pm

There is no such version as home professional. Are you running Windows Professional or Windows Home Premium? I really have no idea why you are having this sort of problem. I have Windows Professional and Windows Ultimate running on several different systems with different NIC cards and have had nothing like that happen. Problems like that are usually driver issues or TCP offload issues, but that is unlikely if you have tried several different manufacturer's NICs. I would start to suspect the cabling is not up to the job. Bill
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April 16th, 2010 6:20am

I have Professional. I have fluked all my lines and its will within norms. I have built my box 2 times now, with the same result. No matte what network card I install I still get SYN RST. Even after this I replaced my CAT 5E termination points with 6A. I already have cat 6 cabling. I tested again, and still well within specs. These are our professional test fluke kits. I am at a loss here, as you say there is no issues with Professional but Yet I read all over the net that windows 7 has issues. To restate this, I had windows 7 RC1 and it was pefect. No issues at all. When I rebuilt using this Windows 7 professional, nothing but issues with networking. I guess ill try upgrading to ultimate and see what happens.
May 4th, 2010 1:41pm

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