Recent content by QuimbyDogg2

Hey, I am thinking about setting up a small web server or possibly for small file sharing between my comps. I was looking at prices on dual processors and it seems that I could either get a fairly fast single processor XP 1ghish for around the same as getting like 2 400mhz processors...

How does that explain why linux computers in the dorms have normal speed internet access and the XP machines are slower?

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I am at a small college in central Iowa and have been experiencing weird network speed related issues since I came here. All of the computers in all the computer labs access the internet at speeds that are very fast and what I would consider normal for a college broadband... The computers in...

As far as I know I am the only one with this problem. I really have no idea what could cause this. I tried to email the tech guy at this school but I never get responses back. I am really clueless about how it could be so slow and then run at normal speed in linux. I am going to reinstall...

Nope not running any P2P. It is really weird because sometime certain webpages will load fast and sometimes they will load really slow and sometimes I have some things going fast and others going slow. Example just checking and going to the forum now the webpages loaded right away. While I...

bump, someone have any ideas please?

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Oh, something else I forgot to add. In windows and linux when I ping something such as www.yahoo.com I get 100% packet loss, yet I can visit the website under linux and it loads instantly.

I have been having some very weird network problems. I noticed the internet to be very slow at my schools campus. Webpages take awhile to load, chat services are laggy and take a long time to connect, and I can only connect to the server of a game I play on like 20% of the time and when I can...

my nic is a netgear fa311 I am running windows XP fully updated with updated AV software I had nortan running mcaffee now because the school made us all put that on. I didnt have any trouble with a slow network connection when I was at home on my cable network before I came here, I will look...

I dont really know too many details about the network here at this school at all. What type of details would you need and how could i go about finding them?

I've been attending college now for a semester and a few days ago I decided to mess around with linux. I noticed something right away after the install, my internet was faster by a lot with linux. I find the internet to be very slow when I am using windows. I have tried using IE, Netscape...