[olug] Speed

[Phil Brutsche]

On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 20:06, Tom Huber wrote:
> I have a 166 pentium ( I know its not a rocket ship)

You might be surprised what that little ol' thing can do.

> but the fastest I
> have downloaded with RH 7.0 is 400 b per sec where with same hardware
> and W98 I get hundreds of K a second or faster depending on time of day
> and site.

Believe it or not download speed isn't related to CPU power.  I have a
Sun SPARCstation IPX (a really slow RISC box from Sun Microsystems,
about as fast as a 486) than can nearly saturate it's 10mbit ethernet
line.

> So what gives why is linux so slow ?

I think it's less a Linux problem and more a hardware issue.

What's the output of "/sbin/ifconfig" after one of those slow downloads?

-- 

Phil


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