A. The speed of your CPU and the amount of RAM is not going to make much of a difference in your network speeds..the difference would be between the Win TCP stack and the Linux TCP stack. B. On a DSL connection the difference between the 3Com card and the Tulip based Kingston card would be slim to none. C. By the pasted in info on your pings. I would stay that your DNS is not set up in /etc/resolv.conf and this will slow everything down as it searchs...and you won't be able to use name resolution..hence having to use ip addresses. I would get your networking properly setup before you blame Linux. I myself haven't really screwed with PPPOE and I avoid any ISP that would use it. There are others here who can give you pointers on better living with PPPOE... * mhf (michael.flug@snet.net) [010322 22:28]: =>Still not ready to give up on ADSL with linux box. ADSL works so well on my clunky p166 / 64megs. of RAM, windows machine. ADSL should be =>slammin' on the 800Mhz Athlon box with 256 megs. RAM. =>Linux box is using PCI 3COM 905C-TX ethernet card. =>Windows box is using PCI Kingston KNE-110TX ethernet card. =>Tonight's ping tests look worse than last night's. I don't know why. =>Results: => =>bash-2.04# ping -c 10 dns.snet.net =>ping: unknown host: dns.snet.net => =>bash-2.04# ping -c 25 64.252.0.1 =>PING 64.252.0.1 (64.252.0.1): 56 data bytes =>64 bytes from 64.252.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=23.054 ms =>64 bytes from 64.252.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=25.953 ms =>64 bytes from 64.252.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=26.062 ms =>64 bytes from 64.252.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=25.940 ms =>64 bytes from 64.252.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=25.970 ms =>64 bytes from 64.252.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=25.877 ms =>64 bytes from 64.252.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=25.682 ms -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.