internet intermittent very long message (solved)

[les]

On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 04:54 -0800, les wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> 	I am experiencing internet intermittency.  The same computer booted
> under windows performs very well, but when running Fedora 14 is very
> poor.  Videos will only partially load, email (evolution) gives "error
> downloading mail", photos and graphics will be interrupted before they
> complete, etc. etc.
> 
> 	tcpdump shows groups of ARP requests about 1 group per second
> requesting the users on my network respond in idle (only tcpdump
> accessing the network with possibly nntp.) and that's it.
> 
> 	I have cleared out the various directories where cookies, temp files,
> flash stuff and some downloads are saved, Checked the internet
> connections by replacing the cable (not really expecting this to change
> anything since windows works), and checked various settings according to
> AT&T (who do not support linux at all) and looked on line at various
> suggestions, all to no gain.
> 
> 	Basically I don't know what to look at next, and googling has not
> returned much in the way of help. Mostly a thread about memcpy, which
> may or may not apply.
> 
> Regards,
> Les H
> 

Someone suggested having AT&T change the server.  Done and done.  Alls
well that ends well.

Regards,
Les H