youtube download difference
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Today watching a 1hr10m youtube video and downloading email and some surfing resulted in 1.433 GB download with a Win 7 Thinkpad x200 laptop.
Then using my Linux Trisquel machine to watch a 1 hour youtube video and some surfing resulted in 199.58 MiB download on a Thinkpad x60 laptop.
How can Linux Trisquel be so much more efficient with similar downloads or have I picked up a problem with the x200 ?
Have you been watch the same video using Losedows and GNU/Linux respectively? If not, we can't draw any conclusion. Because different video clips may have very different coding parameters.
It was two different videos. One was recorded with skype (UK), the other recorded from a mobile internet live stream platform (US).
I just assumed youtube was the same for all videos. Silly me.
Size of a video is determined by a lot of factors like resolution, algorithms used to compress the video, how dynamic it is, etc.
Still, that difference is huge. Maybe Windows was downloading updates in the background? The support for 7 is technically over, but it might still try to get the newest available update if you haven't turned it on in a while.
The Win7 pro machine has been running the same copy of windows for 9 years. Since 2016 have been following Woodys group B security only updates. (woody on windows) Automatic updates are turned off. The only 3rd party prog running is netmeter. 160 GB 5400rpm HD on the win 7 X200.
I swap the cable over from X200 to X60, using the same router for both. 60GB SSD on X60.
thanks
For what it's worth, 10 years ago I was running my old laptop with Windows 7. Using 3g internet, I would usually get 3Mbps. When I started using Ubuntu 10.04, I noticed my speeds would get about 7Mbps. I even called my ISP to ask if this could be related to any illegal access my "linux machine" could be doing to get more speed. They assured me that there was no way for me to do any kind of illegal access, but that most users who had Linux would report to them better speeds than Windows users.
So, truth is Windows has too many factors that make it slower, which could mean additional downloads (updates and what not).
I watched the same youtube video using windows then my Linux machine, the video was 52 mins;
Win 7 = 709.4 MB
Linux Trisquel = 417.17 MB
The Windows machine has a faster processor and more RAM, the Linux machine has Trisquel and a small SSD.
Trisquel wins.
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