Different transfer speeds

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Apr 25 03:20:06 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 13:04 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     I know someone's going to tell me to "upgrade my operating system" 
> but humor me on this one, okay?  I have an FC3 and an XP machine behind 
> my firewall.  On the FC3 machine, when I download anything from the net, 
> I get a solid 330kB/s consistently.  On the XP however, it rarely goes 
> above 100kB/s.  Can anyone tell me why?  Both have 100Mbit nics in them, 
> both connect to the same network hub, go through the same firewall, and 
> the same cable modem.  Why is the XP so crippled?  (am I asking a 
> rhetorical question?)
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Seems more logical to ask Windows questions to Windows lists and Linux
questions to Linux lists.

>From the above information, one could only guess and that would be a
disservice to both you and this list.

Craig




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