From: Adam 

Geo. wrote:
> How about "Vista, with all the things you can't do, isn't it nice to
> know you can still download and burn a knoppix DVD"...
>
> I'm going to boot knoppix tonight and see what it can do for a file copy
> rate on this thing. Make sure this isn't the laptop hardware.
>

MS HCI & marketing guys are mucho like animal psychologists at a
slaughter line....

Adam


> Geo.
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:459c969f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Reduced Enhanced Networking? "By limiting the network download rates,
>> Windows Vista empowers you to be more productive than ever. Experience
>> the Internet like never before, with the all-new Decreased Download
>> Rate (DDR) technology. What do you want to wait for today?" 
>>
>>
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:459c84d6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> One more piece of information about the possible bottleneck.
>>>
>>> Just now I was copying several gig of files (at the slow 7.75mb speed
>>> I keep getting) I was downloading from torrent at 200K and just for
>>> fun I burned a new Knoppix 5.x DVD and everything seems to be working
>>> just fine as in no apparent bottlenecks except for the slow network
>>> copy.
>>>
>>> This really should not be possible.
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>
>>
>

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