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Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 15, @04:52PM

"Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test.

The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps.

The two computers used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz.

The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.'

Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?"

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So this is why people get Ubuntu...

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Why else would I run Ub... ummm, nvm.

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Right well, screw this windows shit!

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Nickelbackro on 16 January 2009

Most likely this dude has a massive virus infection which is keylogging him, thats what is taking up his extra bandwidth under XP and not the virus free Ubuntu.

or

Hmm and here i thought the XP stood for e"X"tra "P"orn. But then again u"bun"tu could be better at downloading hot pics of buns.

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The windows machine was dl'd a new wow update :P

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