From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 9:22: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avalon.dpc.com (avalon.dpc.com [192.101.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EB9C15043 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gstrock@dpc.com) Received: by avalon.dpc.com; id JAA07714; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:19:59 -0700 Received: from gate.dpc.com(10.30.0.166) by avalon.dpc.com via smap (4.0a) id xma007665; Wed, 7 Apr 99 09:19:34 -0700 Received: from dpc.com (cog-dpceng.dpc.com [10.30.0.182]) by gate.dpc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA28262 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:36:40 -0700 Received: by dpc.com; id IAA08661; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skate.dpc.com(192.168.2.252) by cog.dpc.com via smap (4.0) id xma008655; Wed, 7 Apr 99 08:52:32 -0700 Received: from dpc.com (pike.dpc.com [192.168.2.52]) by skate.dpc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA24169 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:13:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <370B846F.88E73AE8@dpc.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:14:39 -0700 From: greg strockbine X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: TCP/IP stack - win98 vs FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. - greg strockbine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message