Hi Everybody, I am new to this group and don't know who responsive everybody is, but I am desperate enough to give it a try. Here is my issue: I am running SuSE 7.3 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000, 300MHz P2, 128MB RAM, 6 GB HD and a 3Com PCMCIA LAN card 10/100MBit (Model 3CXFE575BT). I am experiencing a very strange phenomena: When transferring files from another computer (Win2k, Linux, etc.) to my Linux laptop using a ftp client, I get a transfer rate of less than 10kByte/sec. The same happens, when getting a file from my Linux laptop from another ftp-server (Win2k) using the Linux ftp client. However, when pushing data from the Linux latop to any other computer, I am getting full-speed (>1MByte/sec) on a 10MBit LAN. To make things even more confusing, how about this: if I download stuff to my laptop from the Internet, I am also getting full throttle (200kB/sec - 800kB/sec, depending on the server). So, it can't be the network card itself. I also have configured Samba on this laptop and when copying a file to a shared folder, I get an error message after some time. The Samba configuration is identical to another Linux server where it works just perfect. So, what could be wrong? Here is another observation: my NIC usually detects LAN speed automatically (10MBit vs. 100MBit), but not in this Linux laptop. I tested it on my home-LAN which is at 100MBit and the router definitely says that the NIC operates at 10MBit. Could it be, that the driver doesn't really work with this NIC? Any hint or help would be more than welcome - I am clueless... -Uli --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Sign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup