Re: Odd Networking Issue: Windows vs Linux

"RedPenguin" <ZeroOneTwoThree@xxxxxxxxx> said:
Some of this I thought. But they will use both HTTP. It could also I
guess be the speed of the servers. If it's an edu, I would assume it
would be faster. But then on servers that are fast at home are actually
slower in school.

Much depends on from where yuor school gets its connection, versus from
where you have your connection at home. Some edu servers are fast, some
are slow.

Also aren't switches made to even out how much it gives to every
machine? I notice two machines, one may get bytes per second while
another may get over 50kb/s. Shouldn't they both get like 25?

Switches would be in the network "very close" to the machines - that is,
separated just by a length of cable (perhaps another set of switches
next to these); if the switch is of any quality, it'll easily handle
close to 100Mbit/s traffic simultaneously on each port. When (as seen
from th switch) there's ample free capacity, why should it penalize
a faster download just because there is simultaneously a slower one?

On a congested link, with all other conditions being equal, you could
see some round-robin behaviour. All others meaning bandwith&latency
of each remote server and of each local machine, and so on, but even
this wouldn't be much mandated by the switch, but more by the machines
at each end. Routers could force some speed-equalization.
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