At 10:48 AM 3/17/2005, Rici Lake wrote: >Bill, > >What's the performance problem? > >There was someone on #apache yesterday who claimed to experience the following >problem: On a local switched network, Apache2 on Win2K3 transferred at >800kbps, while IIS on the same box transferred at 8-11mbps. When he replaced >the cable to the server with a shorter one, Apache speeded up to 4 mpbs but >IIS still ran at full speed. He tried it with both Windows and Mac OS X >clients, and experienced the same symptom.
Rici, This sounds more akin to the "Quality of [Dis]Service" winsock provider installed on most Windows XP and later 2000 service packs. I'd suggest they disable this driver, and review any other software which injects a winsock provider.
