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Why?
I'm using mobile racks on the same desktop so that I can have different language versions of Windows.
Recently, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate (English) on a new drive, hoping to replace my XP Professional (English) eventually since it has the XP mode feature and the interface can be changed to different languages almost immediately after a short logoff.
I was downloading an 100 mb file with DownThemAll, a download manager add-on for Firefox, the speed I was getting was around 260 kb/s. I canceled the download and swapped in the XP Pro drive and downloaded the same file again which is also using DownThemAll. This time I was getting nearly 800 kb/s.
It's the same machine, identical versions of browser and plugin, yet the speed differs so dramatically.