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...ware. It's a miracle. Test the network response time, again. Now it takes 40 seconds to copy that 61 MB file. XP only takes 8-10 seconds. It beats 5 minutes, but it still ain't great. So I start googling for post-SP1 slow-file-copy bug problems. Eventually, I come across a reference to Mark Minassi's blog that deals with the autotuning feature of the new TCP stack and that even relatively new switches and routers may not like the autotuning 'feature'. (SP1 by default undoes all the tweaking that poor bastards like me have been flailing away at to try and fix this EVIL.) So I enter...