Holy smokes -- blazing speed?
Bradley Miller
bradmiller at dslonramp.com
Wed Jan 19 22:30:08 CST 2000
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
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