FC3 network issues

[Alex White]

JonVO wrote:
> Loaded Fedora Core 3 on an AMD64, ASUS K8N, installation went pretty 
> well, found the sound card and the network card (NVIDIA chipset), BUT...
> WAN is REALLY slow, such that I cannot update either thru command line 
> or using a browser, it works but is bog slow. Tried external 3COM card, 
> also installed without problems, but it too is very slow. Wait for 20 
> sec to connect, then downloads are 1-2KB if at all.

You mentioned attempting to update, but you did not mention if 
this network slowness is true in -all- cases of downloading 
anything at all from the net. How about if you ftp some stuff 
from anywhere. How about downloading the kernel source from 
kernel.org, is that still slow?

HTH

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