Problem: File copy on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 from a Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 network share is very slow.
Solution (in my environment): Fire the following command as an administrator and reboot the server:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
On a german OS this leads to the following state:
Before:
After:
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Now file copy over network is kind fun again… :-)