From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 12:34:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB64114DBB for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07719; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990407123222.P19144@cpl.net> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:32:22 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey To: greg strockbine Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack - win98 vs FreeBSD References: <370B846F.88E73AE8@dpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <370B846F.88E73AE8@dpc.com>; from greg strockbine on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:14:39AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I don't know if its my imagination or what, > but it seems to me that pages appear a lot > faster in netscape running under FreeBSD than > under win98 (I made sure pages weren't cached). > > Some one told me this is because the win98 TCP/IP > stack is slow. Is this so? > > of course it doesn't hurt to have a DSL connection. > I am so happy with it, paying $50/month instead > of $20 isn't even an issue any more, the speed is > worth it. > > This is my first experience running any Unix on my home > pc. For a developer its pretty nice, very easy to > install one of the ported apps. But for an ordinary > end user its not turnkey enough. I've noticed this as well. Not only do pages load faster, Netscape in general seems much snappier. This was Win95 though, can't say for 98. I think FreeBSD is just better/faster overall than any MS product. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message