Slow as a dog

He is running Windows XP SP2 on a 800MHz Pentium III with about 512MB of RAM.Since I hate Windows I brought my trusty Knoppix CD with me and booted the system into Linux…. Nothing wrong with that connection, just the operating system holding it back.I left my cousin scratching his head and pondering an operating system switch.

Tonight I popped by my cousin’s place to check out his ADSL connection. He has been complaining that even though it is a 1.5Mbit service, he only achieves a download rate of about 10 KB/sec. He is running Windows XP SP2 on a 800MHz Pentium III with about 512MB of RAM.

Since I hate Windows I brought my trusty Knoppix CD with me and booted the system into Linux. Downloading a few large files from work gave an average download speed of 155 KB/sec. Nothing wrong with that connection, just the operating system holding it back.

I left my cousin scratching his head and pondering an operating system switch.

UPDATE: 2 June 2005. My cousin switched to an iMac G5 and now the internet runs at full speed, plus his kids reckon “This is the best computer we’ve ever had”