Re: Odd Networking Issue: Windows vs Linux

On 24 Feb 2006 16:57:02 -0800, RedPenguin wrote:
Ok I am not sure if anyone can explain this issue easily but I am
curious to know because this is very strange to me in a way. Ok, we
have a network at my school, which is now constantly slow because of
major network problems and kids are constantly downloading things. Now
it's rare when downloading a file in Windows at least using Internet
Explorer sometimes to get over 20 sometimes over 10. But I noticed at
the same time using a Linux machine, using Debian's apt-get or wget,
the machine on the same exact network can pull in like at least 50 kb/s
with no problem. Oonce in a while it can grab over 100kb/s which no
other computer (all running Windows) has at all been able to achieve
lately. Only this Linux machine seems to do this. Any explainatoions?

Two things come to mind.
I think M$ reserves some bandwidth for it's self. There is a setting
somewhere to adjust it, but, I do not do windows.

Other could be the systems are infected and are burning bandwidth
hunting other systems to infect or they are sending out email spam.

Hmmm, now that I think back, maybe it is a packet/rx window size
problem, but it's been more then 3 years since I looked into that
stuff.

Rule our IE, load firefox from mozilla.com and use
http://www.broadbandreports.com/stest
to get a good benchmark.
.

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