XP mode INTERNET faster??


  1. Posts : 33
    WINDOWS 7 64-bit Ultimte
       #1

    XP mode INTERNET faster??


    I noticed today that my download speeds went for 1.08 mb/s to 1.34 mb/s when I am in xp mode.
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  2. Posts : 990
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #2

    That's possible for many reasons.

    Firstly, on XP you have less traffic-intesive services running.. IPv4 on XP, while IPv4/6 on Win7. Homegroup polling on Win7, but the verly likely culprit is better driver support for your NIC on XP.

    Btw, why so bold?
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  3. Posts : 4,925
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #3

    Also in XPM, you have much less running services and applications. Virtualised OSs are bare minimum to get things running.
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  4. Posts : 33
    WINDOWS 7 64-bit Ultimte
    Thread Starter
       #4

    interesting....makes sense though, thanks guys!

    Not sure why I went bold....
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  5. Posts : 4,925
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #5

    Just by comparison, currently in Win7 I have 64 processes running, whereas in windows 2000 in virtualbox theres only 20.
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  6. ten
    Posts : 266
    XP / Windows 7 Pro RTM
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    I tweaked the hell out of W2K back in the days before nLite n stuff. 10 processes. Look at the thread count...99

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  7. Posts : 4,925
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
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    lol mine has 240 threads!
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  8. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #8

    wildbilly said:
    I noticed today that my download speeds went for 1.08 mb/s to 1.34 mb/s when I am in xp mode.
    Disable ip6 in Win7 if you don't need it. Gave me about 10% boost.

    Kari
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