-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 March 2003 13:23 pm, Bernd Koepsell wrote: <snip>
Although... let me tell you what I'm used to in the non-linux world. Previous to switching my os, I had download speeds (same modem, same isp, same phone line, etc., using Netscape 4.7, 6 or 7, or the dreaded IE 5.0 or 5.5) averaging 4.6Kb/s. Obviously, I "shared" that average speed with multiple downloads or further access with WWW or mail. Now that I'm using linux, and the Netscape 6 clone, my average speed has dropped all the way down to 3.0Kb/s, plus I am "locked" on that one download without further access or the potential of multiple downloads. I don't think the difference is Mozilla, because the same thing happens when using Yast2 for online updates from an ftp server. I am able to use other apps (that don't use my meager bandwidth) while downloading, so it isn't my cpu either.
Could it be my modem configuration (I used Yast), or my dialer (KInternet), or..., or..., or...?
TIA, again!
Bernd
Hmmm...strange indeed. It was the exact opposite for me. I can even have someone sit on the other computer that runs only W98SE on a seperate phone line in the other room, both of us get on the same website, and begin a download of the same thing, and I'll *always* beat the W98 system by approximately 30 seconds (there was no 'one' particular app, we tried it with just random choices from random websites, but made sure the app was 1MB - 5MB in size, the larger the size the more my Linux beat it (W98) in the download, but the average time I would win was by 30 seconds). If I go onto my M$ partition to download, it's quite a bit slower than when I'm in Linux. Sorry I can't explain why or how it is, because I don't know, heh. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hQ9BH5oDXyLKXKQRAmywAKCNQx/VVi6NFp/aAB5UsMtvA7PBWACeMe4r F77cluL5SQHPWEp0/y/vcJw= =Q0sB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----