We have recently upgraded our entire network to Windows 7 installs from an image. Our Internet speed is crawling, at best. The network speed is fine: copying files, printing, accessing mapped drives, etc – no problems. But using IE8 to access the Internet is painful. This effects everyone – instructors, students, admins…anyone on the domain.
Most of the time, the Internet pages times out. The only time we noticed an increase in speed is when students go on break.
We have tried uninstalling the Bing toolbar, uninstalling Silverlight, updating NIC drivers, stopping network sharing services…almost anything we could think of to stop broadcast traffic.
Windows 7 install on Windows Server 2003 DC.
Any ideas? I will post back a response as to whether we have tried the solution.
