Lan issues fixed here

[chr]

thanks, i'll give it another shot. what happened was i had a perfectly working setup, and then i upgraded hard drives to a 150gb raptor. this problem happened to me before with my previous hard drive, but i fixed it and forgot how i fixed it. i will try reflashing/clearing cmos/and entering the mac in the bios, i do remember doing that before. thanks.

[Doll]

My download speeds seem to be slow on my new system, but ok on my old pc. Is there a way to resolve this ?

Edit- Just rebooted router after sticking cable in the bottom lan port and that seems to be ok.

[eNtoS]

if u are using a router...and p2p software like bittorent, make sure the router forwards the listen port, otherwise it will be very slow

[ganders75]

If you are running XP with SP2, you'll have to get the fix for half open connections. BitTorrent clients (all of them) will flood your half open connections - and in SP2 Microsoft (in their eternal wisdom...?) have limited this to 10... What this means is that your machine will be unable to create any more connections until these have timed out (usually 5 minutes) and your machine will appear to have fallen off the network..