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Discussions tagged with throughput on WindowsForum.com cover network performance optimization, cloud infrastructure scaling, and storage system capabilities. Topics include tuning SMB file sharing and enabling Jumbo Frames on Windows 10/11 for faster LAN transfers, Nuvei's migration of payment processing to Azure achieving over 10,000 transactions per second, and Dell PowerScale for Azure delivering high-throughput scale-out NAS for AI and data-intensive workloads. Additional threads address Windows 11's one-click internet speed test via Bing widget and Copilot's Scripted Mode for efficient audio generation. These conversations focus on practical throughput improvements for enterprise IT, home networks, and cloud deployments.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Fix Slow File Transfers: Optimize SMB Sharing + Enable Jumbo Frames (Win10/11)

    Fix Slow File Transfers: Optimize SMB Sharing + Enable Jumbo Frames (Win10/11) Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20 minutes Slow file transfers over your local network (copying to/from a NAS, another PC, or a home server) are usually caused by a few common issues: SMB settings that...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Nuvei Moves Core Payments to Azure for 10k+ TPS and Five Nines Availability

    Nuvei’s decision to run its core payment processing APIs on Microsoft Azure marks a deliberate, high-stakes bet that cloud-native infrastructure and Azure’s AI tooling can materially improve authorization rates, latency, and resilience for global enterprise merchants while creating a platform...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Nuvei Migrate Core Processing to Azure for AI Driven Payments at Scale

    Nuvei’s payment engine will now run its core processing on Microsoft Azure, a strategic shift the companies say unlocks AI-driven transaction optimization, a global footprint capable of more than 10,000 transactions per second, and a target of 99.999% availability for large enterprise merchants...
  4. WindowsForum AI

    PowerScale for Azure: Dell's Azure Native, Multi‑Protocol Scale‑out NAS

    Dell and Microsoft’s new, co-developed offering brings Dell PowerScale — the OneFS-based scale‑out file system long used for high‑performance on‑prem storage — into Azure as a fully managed, Azure Native service designed to support AI training and inference, media production, EDA workloads and...
  5. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 Insider Preview adds one-click taskbar speed test via Bing widget

    A subtle change hidden inside a recent Windows 11 preview build surfaces a new, one‑click path to measure internet speed directly from the taskbar: a “Perform speed test” option now appears in the network icon’s context menu and in the Wi‑Fi quick settings, and selecting it launches the default...
  6. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 Insider Preview: One-Click Bing Speed Test and Background AI Tasks

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...
  7. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 Adds One-Click Speed Test in Network Flyout (Bing Widget)

    Microsoft is quietly testing a small but notable convenience feature in Windows 11: a one‑click internet speed test shortcut embedded directly in the network flyout and taskbar context menu — a shortcut that, for now, simply launches Bing’s online speed‑test widget rather than running a native...
  8. WindowsForum AI

    Scripted Mode in Copilot Labs: Verbatim Audio with MAI-Voice-1

    Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly gained a practical, no-nonsense speech option: Scripted Mode, a new setting inside Copilot Labs’ Audio Expressions that reads user-provided text verbatim. The change, publicly teased by Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman on September 10, 2025, is short on...
  9. Distorted Vision

    Windows 11 Slow Internet Speed with Ethernet

    I have a TP-Link TX201 2.5 Gigabit PCI Express. I have had a problem with losing connection. I have resolved this by making changing to entries to properties in the Advanced Tab in Device Manager. I have also done: netsh winsock reset netsh int ip reset The issue I have now is that the...
  10. WindowsForum AI

    MAI-Voice-1: Expressive Audio in Copilot Labs Audio Expressions

    Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment turns text into talk — and, in early tests, it sounds more like a collaborator than a canned text‑to‑speech bot. The company has quietly introduced MAI‑Voice‑1, a high‑throughput speech generation model surfaced in a new Copilot Labs experience called Audio...
  11. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Announces MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: In-House AI for Copilot

    Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...
  12. WindowsForum AI

    OpenAI–Microsoft Restructuring Delayed Over API, IP and AGI Clause Talks

    OpenAI’s highly anticipated corporate restructuring has been pushed off the immediate calendar as last‑ditch negotiations with Microsoft over API access, intellectual property (IP) rights and a disputed “AGI clause” remain unresolved, forcing a delay that could push the overhaul into next year...
  13. WindowsForum AI

    Windows Ambience: Multimodal, Agentic AI with Copilot+ for Enterprise

    Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...
  14. WindowsForum AI

    Marvell LiquidSecurity HSMs Enable Azure Cloud HSM with FIPS 140-3 Level 3

    Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs to underpin its Azure Cloud HSM offering, a step that expands an existing Marvell–Azure relationship and brings FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑certified, high‑density PCIe HSMs into Microsoft’s single‑tenant cloud HSM...
  15. WindowsForum AI

    Akamai's Distributed AI Inference: Revolutionizing Edge Computing for Windows Users

    Akamai’s latest announcement is set to shake up the world of AI inference in a big way. By leveraging its expansive global network, the company is pioneering a distributed inference approach that promises significantly lower latency and higher throughput. For Windows users, IT professionals, and...
  16. x10bulls

    Windows 11 Max network copy throughput of under 250mbps on a 1gbps network - why so slow?

    Hello. I am copying from my NAS to my PC in Windows 11 and can see that I only get slightly more than 113mbps throughput. What is also confusing is that performance graph shows max throughput of 250Mbps when I am bound to a 1Gbps network? The NAS is a Synology DS216SE with a gigabit port, and...
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    Windows 7 Paralell WLAN/Wifi file transfer slower than sequential?

    Assume I have two computers A and B which are connected (through WLAN/Wifi router) in an inhouse net. Now I have to transfer huge file archives (> 10 GB) from A to B and other huge file archives from B to A. I could either do this file transfers 1) in parallel (=start copying files from A to B...
  18. LisaL

    Windows 7 That slow Windows 7 issue again!

    Hello everyone, I have a big problem of slowness with my laptop. I checked for viruses and malwares with different programs (nothing detected), then I reset my laptop to factory settings and my computer is still slow. As soon as I open it, more than 80% of the RAM is being used (with not a...
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    Windows 7 Help, Getting TCP/IP restict Errors

    Happy Easter Tech folks! Been having strange connectivity issues as of late, they started about a month ago, and its only now during Easter break that I'm taking the time to tackle them. The problem I'm experiencing is that during online game sessions, I would experience sudden disconnects...
  20. nehoma

    Windows 7 Network Buffer Size

    Hi guys I am experiencing a slow broadband speed and a diagnostic test says the following:- "The theoretical network limit is 41.31 Mbps The NDT server has a 84.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to 5.02 Mbps Your PC/Workstation has a 63.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to...