Ubuntu Faster on My Internet Than Windows XP
This isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test yet, but I found something bizarre this morning. After fixing a little router problem, I tested the download speeds on my DSL line from AT&T and my cable Internet line from Time Warner Cable. I have both for product testing needs.
My DSL is pretty low speed, officially about 1000 kilo bits per second on download and 256 kilo bits per second upload. Testing that with my new (and still aggravating) Vista machine on the Bandwidth.com test meter, I got 1223 kpbs download and 321 kbps upload. That's about normal.
Then I tested my Time Warner cable connection on my primary work machine running Ubuntu 8.04. My cable modem connection is always much faster than my DSL by a factor of 10 on the download speeds.
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