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Does OS make a difference to download speed?
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I have a broadband connection that maxes out on both my home PCs at 3Mb per second. The computer I use most is my old desktop PC, a Pentium 2 with Win98 SE installed. It's connected to the router using a USB 1.0 connection which should theoretically max out at 12 MB/s, which is more than enough. And pretty much everywhere I get decent download speeds, even if the processor and OS suck for most modern web aps. But it's still the PC I use most for music, and Gendou, and whenever I downloaded songs, the connection always tops out at 45 Kb/s. Not a problem really downloading music, as even the longest song takes at the most three minutes. I'm not that impatient. But I also have a Vista dual core laptop that connects wirelessly to the router, and again it maxes out at 3Mb/s. It's what I use mostly for video streaming, but yesterday for the first time I had to use it to connect to Gendou. When I downloaded a song, it came at 300kb/s. All other things are equal, the broadband connection's the same, I use Firefox 2 on both computers, the only differences are the hardware and the OS, and also when I first found Gendou, my desktop was connected via a 56k dial up connection. Is there anything I can do about this? |
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on 2008-09-02 04:34:36 |
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I don't know about OS, but hardware really affects your internet speed... On my pentium2 vs. my core2 duo, it is like how you describe it 45kbps vs 100+kbps (never reached 300 @_@) 
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| Admittedly, my PII is slower than my laptop when it comes to the Internet, but that's mostly with displaying pages. Download speeds depend on what and where I'm downloading from. It's just Gendou that is limited to 45Kb, I'm able to download from other sites as fast as they can supply, I just tried downloading a video file to check from a Spectrum nostalgia site and I was getting it at 200kb/s |
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on 2008-09-02 06:39:08 |
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is that so? I don't know about that.. but I do have difference in download rate between my laptop(PII) and desktop.. I don't know..
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on 2008-09-03 04:28:29 |
err... Moved.  |
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on 2008-09-03 05:41:05 |
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Download speed has virtually nothing to do with a computer's processing power. Assuming your computer is able to run whatever operating system you're running and that it has a 10/100 ethernet port, your download speeds won't be affected any further by anything on that machine. Download speeds are affected mostly by the server you're connecting to and however busy the network traffic between you and that server is, and obviously the speed of your connection you're paying your internet service provider for. Just to give you a frame of reference, I'm on a Centrino Duo laptop right now and I get virtually the same speed (85kbps) as my desktop with a slightly old AMD 3500+, both of which are on my university's T1 internet connection.
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on 2008-09-06 06:52:47 (edited 2008-09-06 06:55:08)
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that is true i noticed when i do multiple downloading from different servers, one is a little slower than the other. the standard speed i get is around 60-30kbps on one server, and at the same time i get as low as 3.0kbps  |
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on 2008-09-20 22:24:43 (edited 2008-09-20 22:28:20)
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| OS is nothing to deal with your download speed. This concerns on your internet connection or ISP, your device that you're using in your PC for internet access (example: LAN and Modem, Network Setup, Router (the setup), Wireless Devices, and many more), and the bandwidth speed that your ISP gave you to access different location using your internet (means that different Server Speed or Location-Range will affect your DL Speed). But, some softwares like Web Browser, Download Manager, and other programs that affects your access in the internet have a effect too, but the effect is more, Ehhhem!", more little than what you expected. |
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Just tried it again. Pentium II, Win 98 SE, connected via USB 1.0 at 12 Mb per second to the router, tried downloading some songs from here, some wouldn't start at all, while the others came at around 40kb per second, about a minute to download. Finally one stubborn file just wouldn't start, so I popped next door to my Vista laptop, connected to the same router but wirelessly, downloaded the file first time, no problem, and it did it at 300kb per second. The file was done and dusted in around 6 seconds. I just can't get my head around it. Especially as the Win98 machine can download from other sites at the same speed as the laptop. EDIT: Just to add to that, I e-mailed the file to myself instead of sticking onto a USB stick, and time how long it took to download the attachment to my slow desktop from my webmail. It was just a couple of seconds. |
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on 2008-10-07 18:44:24 |
The download speed should not vary from OS. I dual boot OS's on my desktop (Vista and XP). Both of them when i download files get the exact same download speed (800kbs-1.1mb/s) but these download speeds vary on what website i download and etc but my max download rate on torrent for both were 900kb/s. It's more of the motherboard/Ethernet card than the OS.  |
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by TheMagicalDreams
on 2008-10-09 08:05:51
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| i don't think it affect the net speed i've used windown 98 and XP with broadband net it's speed 512 KB and the download speed u get from downloading song and etc is always 60 KB/S |
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on 2008-11-06 18:21:25 |
There is totally no difference.Download Speed mainly depend on your broadband,router,receiver,etc.     |
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As stated by this guys, OS does not affect download speed. it all boils down to a LOT of things, but most important would be your ISP, the subscription you have with them, and a few environmental (location and technology) factors. other than than, just wait for it to finish |
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what they said. If your connection speed sucks, then your download speed will suck even more.  |
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by andori-kun
on 2009-09-07 01:13:45
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May be there are some slightly differences about those OS.  |
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I think the problem is from usb interface you're using. It's right, theory said that the speed is up to 12 MB. But, in fact, usb 1.0 (I test it myself) only get a speed of approx. 100 kb/s, while in another PC, which is using usb 2.0, the speed growing up to 1.0 Mb/s In my opinion, you should try to install an optional usb PCI card 2.0. It really helps my trouble too, when I'm stuck at 100 Kb/s at my old Pentium 3 1 Ghz. |
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on 2009-09-28 04:23:14 |
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Yes it does. Afaik Microsoft reserves 20-40% of your bandwidth for doing stuff like interrogating your PC and stuff. So, Linux would be a bit faster, imo.
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on 2009-10-09 04:57:57 |
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Sunny: Even you said Afaik Microsoft is using 20% reservation for your bandwidth, this only because that it's reserve for downloading Latest Live Update for your Windows in that certain day. After Downloading Latest Updates, the reservation is remove until another updates will release. So this means your internet connection's speed is the same as usual and doesn't change. Linux and Windows doesn't vary on Internet Speed, even though you think Firefox is even faster than Internet Explorer. Browsers only concerns in opening some webpage for it's viewers. It's also varies the speed of downloading the pages because of the "Script Effect" + Additional Images" + "Loading Animations (Commonly Flash) running simultaneosly. But it doesn't speed up your internet connection, even your download speed. If you want to experiement it, try to disable all the running scripts, importantly Javascript, of both browser. They become as similar speed in each other. But it doesn't means that your internet speed is increase. As what I said before that OS is nothing to deal with your download speed, although some application can help you speed up your internet speed for 0.001% only ^_^ |