On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:06 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general