I still don't know *why* is suddenly starting running slowly (or thinking it was only 10mb) but I remembered that before I'd moved the machine to the other room I'd also done an dist-upgrade.. and there was a new kernel.. i tried booting back to the old kernel but that didn't fix things.. so not sure whether even that was a problem..
anyways.. its now got a 8139 based card in there and all is well again...
seeing as this is the backend server for my mythtv system.. was getting antsy cos I couldn't watch TV.. lol
thanks again guys.. and I hope your suggestions point others in the right direction for finding out possible problems..
Cheers
Craig
-- Craig Tinson
8010 Media Ltd
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