[applecrisp]

Hey I just installed Fedora core 5 on my old PIII and everything works great except my high speed adsl seem to download at really snail slow speeds of only 10 or 11 kbs !! what is this linux or just the server Im downloading from.

[steven1350]

Originally Posted by applecrisp

Hey I just installed Fedora core 5 on my old PIII and everything works great except my high speed adsl seem to download at really snail slow speeds of only 10 or 11 kbs !! what is this linux or just the server Im downloading from.

depends. Try downloading something from download.com or somthing. Compare speeds. If its the same, make sure your connection is setup right (right drivers or something for ethernet)

[qldit]

Good Evening applecrisp, You might like to try Puppy Linux 2.1 Seamonkey ISO from http://www.puppyos.com/
This will make an interesting bootable CD running a Live linux system that loads entirely to Ram as a ramdrive.
It is pretty simple and has numerous wizards in it for getting online and stuff like that.
It is excellent for testing if problems are real.
It also runs much faster than C5 with a lot more whistles and bells.
qldit.

[rob.rice]

More info please
what nic do you have
what kernel
how much ram
how much swap
ram and swap can be found in /proc/meminfo
there may be a much bigger problem thats showing up as slow downloads
I have a PII that dose 350 kilo bytes per second