Slow Network

[Tim]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:06 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>   Since two or three days, my network connection seems to have become
> much slower. Loading websites with Firefox now takes a mutliple of the
> time, and I am having sporadic "no mirrors found" errors with yum. I
> am running F12 on a Dell Latitude D820 laptop, and I am connected by
> wire to a router. There has been no noticeable change on two Windows
> machines connected to the same router. All machines connect via DCHP.
>  
>   What can I do to diagnose or fix the problem? Thanks!

First obvious things:  The cable and connectors.  Try a different lead,
try a different socket on the router, inspect the socket on the laptop.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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