Comments on: Ubuntu Is Speedy

By: vio1ator

vio1ator — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:57:58 +0000

Even the booting time has improved a lot, now is on par with vista.

By: Shin

Shin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:30:03 +0000

Because our connection here is throttled, people have been using this to circumvent it, with relative success. But since I just can’t do without Windows, it’s unlikely I’d make the switch.

By: double

double — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:09:22 +0000

Panther > The hands are faster than the eyes.

CI > I doubt I can even get more than 200kb/s even by hacking windows.

Peter S > It just might be the client, but overall, my speed has improved by quite a bit.

phossil > I’m quite hooked on to that drama.

By: phossil

phossil — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:04:38 +0000

wow, You have a fast connection. Problably (as mentioned before) its the client.

downloading Bloody monday ep4 eh?

By: Peter S

Peter S — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:33:59 +0000

It might be the bittorrent program, too. When I was back in Windows the torrent program seemed okay, but when I switched to Azureus for Windows I could not believe the speed. And I can’t believe the speed you’re getting now, even though I’m now using Mint (a variant of Ubuntu). I never got speeds that fast!

By: C.I.

C.I. — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:46:40 +0000

HOLY-SHIT

I had to hack windows to get like…1/8th of that.

ON shitty wireless. But yeah, Ubuntu is free of a lot of windows limitations, that’s prolly why.

By: Panther

Panther — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:04:02 +0000

Ubunutu. Nice typo.

I do believe Windows has some shit that prevents torrents from going too fast, and that you need to bypass that. Congrats on the great speeds.

By: double

double — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:57:56 +0000

I get other characters when I type = and @. I am on Starhub‘s cheapest broadband plan. It might be the torrent, but I have never gotten anything above 500kb/s back on Windows. Even for other torrents, while their speed can‘t even be compared to the one in the image, it‘s still much better than my single digit speeds that I‘ve been getting on fresh torrents for the past few days on Windows Vista.

By: tj han

tj han — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:49:59 +0000

Huh you mean it can’t enter = and @? Why? I don’t get it. Also, what conection are you on and are you sure its the client and not the torrent file itself? Have you downloaded anything like, anime?