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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