Discriminating against XP

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This is highly strange. I am at a client with a 4MB adsl line. This line has always been the fastest and most stable line out there for me. I started a download of the ubuntu-9.04RC via normal http from my hosted server in the US. This is using Windows XP SP3 and winwget which is wget for windows a downloader. 23/30Kb download speeds the worst I have ever gotten at the client Leave the download running in the backround for an hour or so - no change. Have to leave the client but as the ubuntu is for them decided to let it continue downloading on their server. Copy the file to the server which is running ubuntu 8.04 server and start the download their using wget for linux - speed is immediately 120/200Kb per second exactly what I expected. So maybe its something on my laptop so I rebooted into ubuntu 8.10 desktop on the laptop and tried it again - 120/200 Kb per second max again! So i tried it on someone else's desktop running XP Pro SP3 same problem 25/30Kb per seconds max on the windows machine, got back to my laptop running ubuntu 120/200Kb per second for the same download from the same server on the same line within seconds of each other. So has Telkom changed something on the adsl backbone the discriminates against the XP IP stack?
 
w1z4rd while that might be true, last week I could max out the line regardless of the OS - XP's IP stack is a modified bsd stack anyway and even I am not about to get into the *BSD is better than * Linux distro fight.
 
slootvreter I specifically used wget because it has the same source code on linux and windows however DAP gives me the same results on Windows as wget did - around 25/30Kb per second regardless of what I do.
 
or maybe it is something in XP itself that messes up the download speed?
 
Gary - my machine is pretty lean but that is why I tested on other machines running XP and tried FF/IE on those machines and the speed is pretty much the same as my laptop - which is very strange.
 
midasza said:
w1z4rd while that might be true, last week I could max out the line regardless of the OS - XP's IP stack is a modified bsd stack anyway and even I am not about to get into the *BSD is better than * Linux distro fight.
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*shrug*. I think it handles tcp/ip way better than its MS counterparts. Im sure BSD might be better. I dunno, have not checked the benchmarks there.

If it used to run fast and now its slower, its more likely something wrong with your MS install, or a new patch or something thats slowed it down. Does SP3 still have a tcp/ip limit?
 
are you sure it was 20Kb and not 20KB? (20KB * 8 = 160Kb)

I've seen some firmware releases for ADSL routers that apparently resolves the "XP SP3" issue.

And before the comments start, obviously the router does not run XP...
 
Thats why i use my Linux computer to download torrents ftp http ect ect lol....
 
midasza said:
Gary - my machine is pretty lean but that is why I tested on other machines running XP and tried FF/IE on those machines and the speed is pretty much the same as my laptop - which is very strange.
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But did you try on my XP Pro SP3:D
You'll be shock and wondering why My Xp is so different from Others
 
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