digger Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 I've got a dual installation of Mandrake Discovery 9.2 and Windows XP Home. I use www.bandwidthplace.com to test my internet speed. When I use it under Win I get 2 meg throughput consistently. When I use it under Mandrake I get 1 meg throughput consistently. When I boot Mandrake I get a Fail for eth0, but eth0 is shown under LAN configuration in the Configuration Center. Any ideas? Digger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 Have you checked with the ethernet card manufacturers web site? Your card might be running a little slow and there could be an updated driver for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted November 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2003 I tried other speed test sites and they reported faster speeds for Linux. I guess some sites are better than others... Digger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnkirby Posted December 1, 2003 Report Share Posted December 1, 2003 Many of these sites use a Java applet to test the speed in, and they will tell you that it frequently works better in internet abhorer than in netscape/mozilla ect... Who knows why, just ssdd with people setting up to work with ms..... Capn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted December 1, 2003 Report Share Posted December 1, 2003 This can actually depend on the web server that you're connecting to too. IE and IIS cheat by not sending / expecting the TCP/IP handshake when connecting and disconnecting that other webservers do, this means that pages can load faster but also that IE can time out on pages on other servers. If you press re-load then IE sends the proper handshake and the page suddenly appears. Ugh, dirty.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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