Router Problems

[spacemanspiff]

OK, here's the deal. I had to "throttle back" the nic card. I'm not sure why, maybe it was using too much gas or it was smoking the tires or something.

Seriously, I think it has something to do with matching the maximum packet size that my connection can handle, or something like that.

Just in case anyone else has the same problem, you basically go to your network adapter settings in the device manager and look for something like "flow rate" and choose a slower setting. I had to use 10Mbps/half duplex. It made no difference in download speed as far as I can see. A few very helpful folks at Linksys support in India got me on the straight and narrow.

Thanks once again to all that helped. Cleo, I was really close to switching to a Mac, but I chickened out at the last minute.