On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 07:43, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi all, > > 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 ? /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 -- 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