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Hi, I made some tests to try to get this work with Intel PRO/1000 server PT DUAL and ET QUAD Adapters on server and client. My CPU is a i5 at the smb client and a i7 at the smb server, each computer has 32GB RAM, harddiscs are SSD. I found out that there are two things very important: 1.) Try a new clean installation of windows! Your existing system with Software etc. may not work even if you deinstall all your software, deacivate all services, reset configurations etc.! 2.) Configure your Desktop Windows to a HOMEGROUP, you know the symbol with three blue and one green ball in the control center of Windows! Not only workgroup, create a HOMEGROUP. It is not necassary to put your shared files in the homegroup shares like pictures and documents, because you can leave your data in your own network shared folders. The only important thing is just to create the HOMEGROUP, nothing more. And then, after creating a homegroup and joining the other PCs to the homegroup, its important to make a System REBOOT. And after restarting you get the BOOM. Dont waste time with Powershell CMDlets to see if RSS is enabled or not. For me in all cases the Powershell said that RSS is not enabled, but it worked for me with Windows 8 and Windows 10, but not Windows 7 (but this was for sure my fault because I used my Windows 7 and not a clean installation of Windows 7). You dont need RDMA, subnets, LAGs or Intel ANS drivers. And the results for the speed: With the DUAL Adapter I get 220 MB/s which is fine. But with the QUAD Adapter I only get 265 MB/s instead of 440 MB/s! The only constellation I got the real BOOM with 440 MB/s was from server2012 to server2012 with independent NIC Teams at both sides and cables directly from PC to PC without a switch. And this is the problem for Windows 7,8,10: The Intel drivers dont have the "switchindependent mode", so you cant build NIC teams in the "switchindependent mode" like in server 2012, and so you cannot get the 440 MB/s on Desktop Windows. Correct me if I am wrong! Do you know the reason why ? Do you really get 440 MB/s on Windows 7/8/10, not only on server 2012 ? Yours