Low internet speed

[JonVO]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 07:43, Danesh Daroui wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>I am a FC3 user. I have connected a broadband internet CAT5 cable (8 
>>Mbit/1 Mbit) to this system. Before FC3, I was using Windows XP and the 
>>speed was fine, but when I installed FC3, the speed got low dramatically 
>>! The only change I have made is that I used a long cable (Maybe 8 m or 
>>more) to connect that system to internet. Can it be a reason that could 
>>increase the error rate ? I use a wireless LAN and can use a USB 
>>wireless adapter but I am not sure if FC3 is compatible with wireless 
>>networks or not, however it says it does. Have anyone any suggestions or 
>>experience about this problem ?
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>/Shot in the dark...
>Do you by any chance put in acpi=off on the grub command line?
>It might be just me, but I-net slowed down V. much after I did that and
>became better after it was removed
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>Ow Mun Heng
>Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 
>98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
>Neuromancer 00:15:38 up 4:07, 2 users, 0.24, 0.21, 0.13 
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Not that I know. Have not installed ipv6. Seems there is some contention 
on ipv6, most say leave it off. Could try and see...
JonVO