From: "Geo." 

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.

Geo.

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> 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
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>> 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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