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?

The speed of your cable and your Ethernet card are displayed in Mbps (Mega bits per second), while the download/upload speed when using Gnutella client is displayed in KBps (Kilo bytes per second). Taking on account that 1 byte = 8 bits, 130 KBps is a good speed (1040 Kbps), although you should talk to your ISP because it's not good enough.

However, your download speed depends directly from the server that is uploading. If it is using a 56K modem, your download will be slow, no matter what connection you have.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

Hey... think about this - on serial connections there are 1 start and 2 stop bits, so a "byte" would take 11 bit "times" to get there. So when calculating do they consider the 11 bits or just count the bytes after they arrive? So is 56K really 56K? and 56K upload speed is 31K as I understand it, that is why you get such slow download from modem users. my modem has never returned CONNECT string of more than 46K - makes me wonder if my upload is more like 28.8!