Yes I have noticed that the different TCP/IP stacks make a big difference in
download speeds. My little P200 Linux server downloads about 40% faster
than my win98 machine from the same site, and about 25% faster than my win2k
machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha@saarinen.org]
Sent: Saturday, 6 January 2001 13:44
To: Kees Ouwehand
Cc: adsl@unixathome.org
Subject: RE: different download speeds on different machines

That's very good speed. I think you're getting the max sustainable rate
per session. Try a program like Mass Downloader to see if you can bump it
up a bit more ;-)

WinME and Win98SE have different TCP/IP stacks, if I remember right, and
the NIC drivers could also affect the throughput.

Yes, if you burden your machine with a packet filtering program like that,
you'll see a reduction in throughput.

-- 
Regards,
Juha
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Kees Ouwehand wrote:
> PS, the router reports 7612Kbits/sec (lucky, only 700m away from the
> Papanui Exchange)
>
>
> The PC is a Pentium Pro 200Mhz with 64MB and runs win ME, the notebook has
> a 3Com PCMCIA network card and it is a Compaq Armada 1590DT, Pentium MMX
> running at 166Mhz with 48MB , and has win98SE installed. That is
> Kbytes/sec, Juha.
>
> What I also found is that if I have Norton Personal Firewall running on
the
> Desktop, well, that really affects the download speed adversely!
>
> Regards
>
> Kees
>
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