On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Richard Bown wrote: > My cable connection is not as good as it could be, so called out the > cable guys and to my horror, his win98 laptop downloaded faster than > this machine, My current NIC is a realtek 8139, and I always thought a > linux machine would floor a poxy winyuk machine. What NICs are known to > work well , ie fast..
Just a shot in the dark here, but could this be a half- vs. full-duplex issue, perhaps? Any idea what NIC chipset he had in that lappie? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
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