With the Windows Vista coming out soon, I have seen various benchmarks on games and performances comparing with Windows XP. But hey, have you seen any comparison on internet speed? And why do I want to know it? Because Windows Vista has the “Next Generation TCP/IP Stack”, some of us are surely curious whether this new technology have any impact on the download speed or upload speed. Below are some of the new features:
- Dual IP layer architecture for IPv6
- Easier kernel mode network programming
- Support for a strong host model
- New security and packet filtering APIs
- New mechanisms for protocol stack offload
- New support for scaling on multi-processor computers
- New extensibility
- Reconfiguration without having to restart the computer
- Automatic configuration of stack settings based on different network environments
- Supportability enhancements
- Better support for computers that roam between networks
- Better support for developers of multicast-enabled applications and networks
- TCP performance enhancements for high-speed networks, asymmetric satellite links, and wireless and other high loss networks
- Improved portability of the Next Generation TCP/IP stack to other Microsoft operating systems such as Windows CE, Xbox, and Windows Embedded
- Improved resistance against all known TCP/IP-based denial of service and other types of network attacks
With all the new features and improvements I am just curious whether it is faster than Windows XP? So I hope somebody or some group can benchmark for me. Thanks for reading.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0905.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/new_network.mspx
