Ubuntu downloads pron faster then XP!

[Gazz]

Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's



Posted by GamersHell.com - Largest Independent VideoGaming Website (gh3d.com) - GamersHell.com on Thursday January 15, @04:52PM
from the aggregated-circumstances dept.

narramissic writes "Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps. The two computers used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.' Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?"

So now you know why I use Linux

[slugbug]

I used Ubuntu 8.04 64bit a while ago and did notice that my newsgroup binary downloads were much quicker than they were with Windows.

[Richard_Rahl]

It is largely dependent on the bandwidth of the server. Downloads of GH and hardware manufacturers are not differing significantly (hm sites because they are always offering archaic speeds).