I have a network with a linux computer that serves as a server/router and a windows computer connected to that computer. My ADSL modem is connected to eth0 on the linux comp. and eth1 goes to my windows computer.


My problem is that if i download a file on my linuxcomputer with wget I can get speeds over 1000 kB/s but when i donwload the exakt same file on my windows computer I maximum get about 700 kB/s.

I'm running slackware 10 with Arno's iptables firewall.


Can anybody help me to work this out? Or is it just windows that is crap??

Windows is crap.

I am no expert, but I will go ahead and tell you what I THINK I know

wget rocks. It's coding is flawless and so it is able to move files much more efficiently. Windows explorer on the other hand seems to have a problem and needs to slow down in order to handle the data the way it should be handled.

Now back to what I KNOW.

I have 4 machines and when I transfer windows to windows (across my home network) I usually get 5 MB/s on average. That is across a 100 Mbits/s network.

Then I transfer linux to linux using wget and ncftp and I am able to transfer between 8 and 10 MB/s. All 4 network cards are the same so I don't think that it's a hardware bottleneck. All the hard drives are at least ATA33 if not ATA100.