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Rob_Quads

 posted on 8th Nov 09 at 21:29

I've tried both Firefox and IE and both get simiar results on Windows

On Ubuntu I am using Firefox gets 4MiB/s +

I mostly use wget on ubuntu so tried wget for windows but it also showed poor results.


John

 posted on 8th Nov 09 at 21:04

Where are you downloading from?

The only thing I can think of is that IE opens a default of 3 maximum connections to a site, whatever browser you are using on linux might not.

If you are using IE try another browser to try and narrow it down first of all.


Rob_Quads

 posted on 8th Nov 09 at 21:02

well its going to be something OS based as even a 100% clean install with no other software does it.


pow

 posted on 8th Nov 09 at 19:45

Could be ANYTHING doing that :)


Rob_Quads

 Icon depicting mood of post posted on 8th Nov 09 at 16:35

Anyone noticed windows is rather slow at downloading files?

I have two servers running on my network. Old Ubuntu linux server and a new Windows Home Server. Downloading the same file gets drastically different results.

On Linux it will jump straight to 3.5MiB/s then move between this and up to around 5MiB/s
On Windows it will creap up to around 1.5MiB/s but then fluctuate up and down to 0.5MiB/s

I've also seen these poor speeds on another wired machine in the house

Any ideas how to speed up windows?