Windows 7 Beta Network Performance

One of my major complaints about Vista has been the network performance problems, or atleast what seemed to be network performance problems. I worked with a couple of guys at work on testing network performance with XP, Vista and Windows 7 Beta. We created following script to test with.

net use N: file://servername/C$/Test
mkdir ST
echo Start,%time% >> Results.csv

copy N:\ReportViewer.exe ST\RV.exe

echo Small,%time% >> Results.csv

copy N:\office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe ST\of.exe

echo Big,%time% >> Results.csv

echo F1,=B2-B1 >> Results.csv

echo F2,=B3-B2 >> Results.csv
del ST\RV.exe

del ST\OF.exe

rmdir ST
net use /delete N: /y

I used a Windows 2003 Server and a Windows 2008 Server for testing.

Here are the results:

I was shocked by the performance of Windows 7 downloading from Windows 2003 server. I hope that Microsoft works on this. Remember that this is a Beta and we will have to wait until RTM to determine the real performance. I am very impressed with the perfromance of Windows 7 and Windows 2008 server. Hopefully this does not change in the RTM.