How to speed up Windows 7 LAN Connection

Applicable to Microsoft Windows Vista

Run CMD.EXE as Administrator (Right Click and select Run as Administrator)

Enter the following commands:
Netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
Netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled
Netsh interface tcp show global

This will disable the autotuning function in vista TCP / IP networking, which will help you to solve most of the problems. Disabling autotuning will help much on DNS lookup and network discovery. It improves the data transfer speed also over the network.

Disable TCP/IP IPv6 if you do not need to use it. Right click on your Local area network connection, go to properties.

Remove Remote Differential Compression (RDC). control panel and programs and features. Click on Turn Windows features on or off. This feature introduced with Windows Vista to transfer data over network in compressed format. As all of the old operating systems came before vista do not support RDC feature.

Updated On: 12.07.15