Mithilitas Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 When I installed leopard my download speed was 1 mb/s, but on windows xp and vista it is only 320 kb/s maximal :S I installed leopard on my intel computer ofcourse, and I got a 11 mb/s internet connection. I used the same wireless usb stick for both speeds. Does anyone know how I can increase my download speed on XP/Vista? Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109436-download-speed-windowsleopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
footswitch Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 If I understood you correctly, you have a USB WiFi device that you use to connect to an access point (or wireless router), and from there to the internet. The thing with windows is.. most applications will suffer a "limitation" in network transfer speed, normally being at 20 to 30% of the link speed (in your case, the reported link speed is 11Mbps; 30% of that will give you about 3Mbps, which translates to ~330KB/s). So this behavior is considered to be 'normal'. With most OSes that came from UNIX, this problem doesn't happen. So you're able to use the full link speed. 11Mbps --> ~1.1MB/s I've looked like everywhere for ways to work around this limitation on Windows NT OSes. There are certainly a LOT of tweaks that you can do, but there seems to be no actual solution that matches MAC OS - or Linux for that matter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109436-download-speed-windowsleopard/#findComment-776207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithilitas Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 If I understood you correctly, you have a USB WiFi device that you use to connect to an access point (or wireless router), and from there to the internet. The thing with windows is.. most applications will suffer a "limitation" in network transfer speed, normally being at 20 to 30% of the link speed (in your case, the reported link speed is 11Mbps; 30% of that will give you about 3Mbps, which translates to ~330KB/s). So this behavior is considered to be 'normal'. With most OSes that came from UNIX, this problem doesn't happen. So you're able to use the full link speed. 11Mbps --> ~1.1MB/s I've looked like everywhere for ways to work around this limitation on Windows NT OSes. There are certainly a LOT of tweaks that you can do, but there seems to be no actual solution that matches MAC OS - or Linux for that matter. ah ok, thanks for the reply, I think I will install Linux in VMware. thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109436-download-speed-windowsleopard/#findComment-776989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithilitas Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 well, Linux also downloads with 300-320 kb/s, too bad.. I wish I could install Leopard into vmware, thanks anyway Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109436-download-speed-windowsleopard/#findComment-777149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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