Vista and wireless networking...

In the company I work for, the standard is windows (duh!). One of the most "critical" aspects for the people who work there is wireles access to the network. See, a lot of people (myself included) have laptops (in my case, right now is a Lenovo ThinkPad X61), and they roam freely around the office building in meetings and so.

Since I upgraded to Vista (Ultimate first, now Business) my wireless connection SUCKS, and I mean SUCKS BIG TIME. Its slow as molasses and drops every 2 or 3 minutes. I know, all you windows lovers out there should be thinking its the wireless LAN itself, but I happen to have with me my trusty old iBook G4 running Leopard right beside the lenovo and the wireless is excelent. Speed normal, and NEVER drops.

In XP I didn't have that problem, so I could safely assume it was vista related. After some digging, I found out that vista has now an auto-tuning "feature" (it's not a bug, it's a feature :D) that in my case was, to put it mildly, not working as it should. In case any of you experience that particular issue, you could try disabling that feature by opening up a command prompt (as an administrator) and issuing the following command:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

In case you want to enable it back, use the following command:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

And that's it!