For a few days I had access to a cable modem 1.5mbs and windows and linux boxes.
windows was on via usb and 10mb thingy
linux was on 10/100 card
I only got about 56 k bytes per second max on windows no matter what I did, via ftp
same ftp site, same file, cable, everything just a few minutes later and linux got 130 k bytes per second, I unplugged from windows after stopping download and started on linux right away.
on gnutella i never seen anything over about 8 k bytes/s on windows or linux. so why do people bother with this cable modem anyway?
were they throttling the windows box but cant do it to linux? is there a secret thing you can do to windows to slow it down?
try it and post back!
please post what speeds you normally get , not just the one you get every once and a while. I got about as much as I would have with a modem connection, plus a litle bit.
and NO - 10 mbs ethernet is WAY faster, like 1 mega byte per second so that wasnt the problem!
browser downloads were even worse on windows, so what gives?