Internet connection issue

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 07:24 -0500, Alex wrote:
> This may be a stupid question, how what are my NIC settings and how do I
> access them? I'm not the biggest expert on networking, so I do apologize
> if this is something I should know.

Right-click the network indicator applet, choose "Edit Connections" -
locate your connection (whatever it is), edit the settings there.

As you have a mixed environment (MS Windows and whatever), yes, you're
going to notice a bit of a lag on the other machines; linux, whatever
version, whatever distro, directly connects and does not, by default,
really bother with any type of "background load balancing" as does MS
Windows and MacOS - it's straight forward.

The environment I have here, all linux machines, works like a charm,
however, when a huge download is in progress, everything slows down -
that's going to happen regardless. Some OS's "hide" that fact, linux
does not.

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