I have a cable modem, and though I have not benchmarked the connection
on Win98, my linux (mandrake) box is noticably faster with large files
(Mandrake 7.0 ISO for instance).  I'll try m$n's bandwidth test on both
tonight...

Chris Midkiff
cmidkiff@kc.rr.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bradley Miller [SMTP:bradmiller@dslonramp.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:29 PM
> To:	kclug@kclug.org
> Subject:	kclug - Holy smokes -- blazing speed?
> 
> Hmm -- I think there is big issue here.  I'm sitting on this xDSL
> connection, and I kind of like to watch what I'm getting for bandwidth
> every now and then.   I run the test from this page:
> 
> http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest500.asp
> 
> (DISCLAIMER:  I know this isn't exact . . . but it's a benchmark if
> nothing
> else.)  
> 
> Anyway, on my NT box I'm getting something like 96K/sec -- 786Kbps.
> Not
> bad I think . . I've see it higher than that before.   Next I download
> VMWare for my Linux box and I notice it's saying something like
> 150K/sec on
> the download.   That can't be right . . . so I go to the speed test
> link on
> it.   (The normal link is
> http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest.asp, but
> it's
> not pulling it up correctly . . . probably a javascript problem.)
> Using
> that 500k link
> (http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest50.asp for
> a 50K
> test) I get back 156K/sec -- 1279Kbps.  I've tested them both several
> times
> to make sure this isn't a fluke.   
> 
> In a word . . . WOW!    Does anyone else have a similar story?   It's
> quite
> interesting . . . I was reading on some tweaks for high speed
> connections,
> but the tweaks were for Win 95/98 machines.  I was under the
> impression
> that NT was already tweaked quite a bit for networking.   Could there
> be
> some more to gain in my NT setup?   Or should I just put Samba on the
> Linux
> box and use it for my meaty downloads?  <grin>
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
> 
> 
> 
>