On 14/11/06, South Walney Information Management <<a href="mailto:info@swimbarrow.co.uk">info@swimbarrow.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's a wireless connection. Here's the output from ifconfig. But it does seem that local applications run slower. And conversely (perversely?) it's just done a big mail download on my swim (business) account in pretty good time... </blockquote></div> I was hoping to see a misconfigured connection, or a bucketload of tx/rx errors, but this looks fine. You say it feels as though applications are running slower in addition to crappy network speeds - anything standing out as an obvious CPU hog after the machine has been running for an hour or so - output from top, ps and the system accounting output (if you have it active) might show something odd... -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...