Rob_Quads
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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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?
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pow
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Could be ANYTHING doing that 
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Rob_Quads
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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well its going to be something OS based as even a 100% clean install with no other software does it.
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John
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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.
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Rob_Quads
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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.
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