On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:06 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> when you say 500mS, thats the round trip ping time?
It's a bit less, for example SELECT max(id) on the same table takes
about 350ms. Yes, I am in New Zealand, the server is in Canada. pings
take about 275ms average.
> I think I'd run a packet sniffer like Wireshark on both client platforms,
> sniffing 5432/tcp and see if there's something unusual in the timing of the
> packets, incorrect MTU or something, lost packets and extra retries, or
> whatever. Perhaps Windows isn't using a sufficiently large TCP Recieve
> Window (RWIN) value, or something.
I am a bit out of my depth there, but for all other network use the
machine seems the same in either os. That is no noticiable difference
in download/upload speed.
--
Rob