Thats a huge differnece, but with some routers and stuff, MTU and other settings can make a huge difference..
Since windows is optimised (if you can call anything with windows optimised) for internal network traffic from scratch.. that could be accounting for some of the difference.. but thats a massive difference... got no idea.. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Turner Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 5:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to install connexant modem driver with the .tar extention On Mon, 27 May 2002, shane wrote: > On Sunday 26 May 2002 10:11 pm, Nashib .J. opened a general hailing > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > Can someone inform me if internet browsing under Linux is quicker than > > browsing under Windows9X. > > generally spealing it is, at least in my experience. same connection, same > server, same time , (ok one right after the other) when i had a windows > machine linux downloaded files both ftp and http faster than win2k. but > not a whole lot. if you are thinking your 56k will act like dsl, it ain't. > :) When downloading the mandrake iso images from linuxiso.org with Win98, I consistently got 45k/sec downloads. I don't know if it cycles through different mirrors or not, but as I said, they were consistently 45k/sec (and I downloaded several times due to IE temp directory issues). Anwyay, isntalled Mandrake, same machine, same ethernet card, etc, and downloading images from linuxiso.org again, consistently got 100k/sec downloads. It seems a bit far-fetched that linux should handle my ethernet card -that- much better than windows, but like I said, the results were the same every time for several trials on both systems. So, for whatever it's worth.... --jim > > -- > "After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. > If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of > Administrator with no password." -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 > > shane > Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html > Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 > Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ > Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ > > > ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy. ~ King Humperdink
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