speed diff online Mint vs Ubuntu (vs windows)

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Cel
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speed diff online Mint vs Ubuntu (vs windows)

Post by Cel »

Hi,
first of all, I'm so sorry for posting in Swedish first, I forgot this is an English forum :D

Anyway.

I've been fiddling alot with linux-guests the past few days and something odd occurred the other day...

3 distributions are currently on trial as guests, Latest Linux Mint (can't remember exact version), Ubuntu 10.04.1 and Opensuse (also latest)..

When I go to a swedish site for speedtest of your internet connection, I get huge differences in speed. The site is "www.bredbandskollen.se".

In Mint I get usually between 35-47mbits download (upload is the same on both machines), but in Ubuntu I get between 65 and 70 mbits, that's a huge difference?

Also, guests through Virtualbox don't get the same speed as real machines, which would be understandable to a certain extent, but I get 90-95+ on my windows 7 machine and tops 70-75 on a virtual linux-guest (Ubuntu)..
Is that the kind of loss I can count on?

Again, sorry for writing in Swedish before... :D
Cel
Posts: 5
Joined: 18. Aug 2010, 16:06
Primary OS: MS Windows 2008
VBox Version: OSE other
Guest OSses: Linux

Re: speed diff online Mint vs Ubuntu (vs windows)

Post by Cel »

Update:

Now, I've just installed a windows 7-guest, and it gets up to the same speed as my regular machine.. is linux-guests that much slower? waaaat?
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