Re: Linux a worse router than Windows?

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Date: 09/09/05

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    Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:00:25 GMT

    noelbush@gmail.com wrote:
    > Thanks -- I checked, but all PPP is already disabled.
    >
    > Is it possible that Windows XP has some special automatic configuration
    > for dialup connections that makes it work better? Just now I tried this
    > with a borrowed Windows 2000 machine, and got similarly bad results. So
    > it seems that XP has a leg up on everybody for making best use of a
    > dialup connection, or at least for the way it shares it. But what could
    > that be? Please help, I'm a networking nincompoop, but I need my IP
    > phone!
    >

    I would suspect the xp machine was just a faster machine

    Remember it's a "WINMODEM" not a real modem .. it's software driven

    may just be better/newer drivers in Xp

    Your trying to compare different cpu's with different hardware and
    equate it to a operating system problem

    Which by the way Your using 3 different operating systems for comparison.

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