One issue that I continually see reported by customers is slow network performance. Although there are literally a ton of issues that can effect how fast data moves to and from a server, there is one fix I've found that will resolve this 99% of time — disable Large Send Offload on the Ethernet adapter. So what is Large Send Offload (also known as Large Segmetation Offload, and LSO for short)? It's a feature on modern Ethernet adapters that allows the TCP\IP network stack to build a large TCP message of up to 64KB in length before sending to the Ethernet adapter. Then the hardware on the Ethernet adapter — …
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