[techtalk] damn Windows

David Merrill david at lupercalia.net
Thu Jun 7 14:28:24 EST 2001


On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:46:01PM -0400, Scott wrote:
> Question 2- Is it me or is the TCP/IP stack more solid in Linux?  Case in 
> point, my
> favorite Real Audio station--I tune it in and often fall a sleep with it 
> on, the next
> morning it is still playing.  I have YET to have that happen with Win 2K 
> being the
> Internet Connection Sharing box.

I use realaudio quite a bit, and my Linux box runs it MUCH better. Not
only do I never lose my connections, but I get 3X the bandwidth. This
is vs. Win98, though, not Win2K.

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Dr. David C. Merrill                     http://www.lupercalia.net
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