My desktop (see sig) runs Windows 10 out of necessity because a couple of apps I need still aren't cross-platform. I have Kaspersky Antivirus 2017 running, Defender disabled and Windows firewall disabled. The local network is set up like this:
VM 200/20 (SuperHub3) > pfSense (APU2C4) > Ubiquiti UAP AC PRO
The desktop currently connects via a PCIe wireless AC card (TP-Link Archer T9e AC1900), and syncs around 1.0 to 1.3 Gbps. Although multi-threaded downloads like Usenet will max the line more or less, most stuff is quite a bit slower. For example using curl to grab a 100MB test file from cachefly, under Windows 10:
Then the same test under Debian Stretch virtual machine on the same desktop machine, using the same wireless card etc:
Although it's more than usable day to day and heavily multi-threaded downloads spool up OK, clearly Windows 10 is rather lacking compared to Linux, even in a VM within the Windows host (ironic). Torrents also tend to cap out around this speed (~10MB/sec) even things like Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop, which will saturate the line via Linux using the same torrent client.
Does anyone have any bright ideas on speeding things up towards something close to parity between the OSs? I thought the days of tweaking Windows for things like this were over.
VM 200/20 (SuperHub3) > pfSense (APU2C4) > Ubiquiti UAP AC PRO
The desktop currently connects via a PCIe wireless AC card (TP-Link Archer T9e AC1900), and syncs around 1.0 to 1.3 Gbps. Although multi-threaded downloads like Usenet will max the line more or less, most stuff is quite a bit slower. For example using curl to grab a 100MB test file from cachefly, under Windows 10:
Code:
$ curl http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 100M 100 100M 0 0 10.8M 0 0:00:09 0:00:09 --:--:-- 10.8M
Then the same test under Debian Stretch virtual machine on the same desktop machine, using the same wireless card etc:
Code:
root@stretch-vm:~# curl http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 100M 100 100M 0 0 26.0M 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 26.0M
Although it's more than usable day to day and heavily multi-threaded downloads spool up OK, clearly Windows 10 is rather lacking compared to Linux, even in a VM within the Windows host (ironic). Torrents also tend to cap out around this speed (~10MB/sec) even things like Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop, which will saturate the line via Linux using the same torrent client.
Does anyone have any bright ideas on speeding things up towards something close to parity between the OSs? I thought the days of tweaking Windows for things like this were over.
