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Windows and network speed
mobrien_12:
I ran a little experiment today which some of you might find interesting. I went to google and searched for "bandwidth test." Google returned a bunch of sites that had free online bandwidth tests. I ran several of them in Windows 98 and Linux (dual boot machine, 100Mbs LAN connection, Mozilla in both cases).
The tests results in Linux were consistently three to eight times faster than those obtained from the same websites using Win98.
WMD:
Not surprising. Windows has always had poor TCP/IP performance. To this day, it still does. Try repeating the same test with Win2k/XP. It'll still be slow.
PseudoRandomDragon:
It actually can be resolved with a registry change. By default, limits are placed so the max comes to about 200kb/s (bytes), a simple reg change fixes that.
I wonder why they put that limit...maybe to make Longhorn seem "faster"?
WMD:
^ :eek: Where's the key?
PseudoRandomDragon:
There are utilites like Tune UP Utilites 2003 that can do it for you.
Or you can do it manually.
http://www.racelinecentral.com/CableDSL.html
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