I'm just playing around with Ubuntu until I can get around to re-installing Windows 7 on my machine (which I can't do until I finish some assignments. Long story). Anyway, I've noticed that Ubuntu is faster than Windows 7 when downloading - not only a little bit faster, significantly so. A normal HTTP download in Windows (or for that matter, Mac OS X which I'm also experimenting with (and disliking)) seems to top out at round 750kB/sec. In Ubuntu, I'm reaching 850. Most striking though was an NZB - Windows again never tops 800kB/sec, whereas in Ubuntu I was seeing over 1000.
How is the differential so great? I could accept maybe a few tweaks to give a few kB/sec difference, but with newsgroups it's over 20% faster, which is ridiculous. Obviously I'm not complaining about the speed increase, but I'm now wondering what I'm missing in Windows.
How is the differential so great? I could accept maybe a few tweaks to give a few kB/sec difference, but with newsgroups it's over 20% faster, which is ridiculous. Obviously I'm not complaining about the speed increase, but I'm now wondering what I'm missing in Windows.