It's very possible that it's faster- Aside from the fact that
Microsoft's networking isn't very standards compliant, the Linux TCP
stack is fairly efficient as is the resolver and resolver caching
(speedier dns resolution). <br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cyber Source</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tommy Rogers wrote:<br>> (You all remember that I'm newish here)<br>><br>> It seems to me that downloading from Linux is faster than Mac or<br>> Windows. Is there a particular reason or am I going crazy?<br>>
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http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>><br>Maybe your not infected with thousands of viruses, acting as a bot, spam<br>mail server, etc., etc.. Those would most likely be the difference but<br>all sorts of things could be configured differently on your Linux box as
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