I've googled this pretty extensively and can't find anyone who's had the
same problem, so here it is:
I wrote a console program in python to download podcasts, so speed is an
issue. I have 1.6 M down. The key bit of downloading code is this:
source = urllib2.urlopen( url )
target = open( filename, 'wb' )
target.write( source.read() )
This runs great on Ubuntu. I get DL speeds of about 1.5 Mb/s on the
SATA HD or on a usb-connected iPod, but if I run the same program on
Windows (with a 2 GHz core 2 duo, 7200 rpm sata drive---better hardware
specs than the Ubuntu box), it maxes out at about 500 kb/s. Worse, if I
DL directly to my iPod in disk mode, I'm lucky if I even hit 100 kb/s.
So does anyone know what the deal is with this? Why is the same code so
much slower on Windows? Hope someone can tell me before a holy war
erupts :-)
--danny
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