hi folks, this is more of a hardware/general computer problem, but it's affecting my ability to get linux back after i decided to do a major restucturing of my system! i have an odd enquiry, i have just had a cable modem installed (ntl - uk) and went straight to download lm 8.0. i have had to download each iso about 5 times to get ones that didn't fail the md5sum and i am still downloading the -ext.iso now! now, when i did this sort of thing with dial up i only had one md5sum fail, but with my new super fast cable job (70 Kbyte/s ish) despite gozilla claiming that all downloads were successful the md5sum is different in every case, thinking frantically i remembered that the engineer left me an attenuator for the modem saying i might need it, is it possible that a signal that is too strong might 'distort' a download such that all the checks of download software could be fooled? i don't think so but it's the only explanation i have left, i cannot think of any reason why the resulting files should be wrong, i have three hard drives in my machine and i have downloaded to them all! i have the attenuator on now and i am trying to download, in a couple of hours i will see if i have a correct file, if any one can suggest avenues of investigation into what can cause files to be corrupted despite all appearances then i would be grateful, tia bascule
