Hardware problem

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My sister has a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop experiencing strange
Internet operation.

The thing is dog slow. She has a very fast cable system, excess of
10000 kbps. that typically runs at 200 kpbs or less. I disabled the
onboard nic and put in a replacement pci card. First connection hit
11500 kbps immediately afterwards dropped to under 400 kbps.

This is a direct connection without a router. Exact same results using
Linux or XP.

As a control test I connected my laptop and get routinely above 11500
kbps. That makes me believe the Dell likely has a motherboard that is
failing. Any other possibility?
 
Jim said:
My sister has a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop experiencing strange
Internet operation.

The thing is dog slow. She has a very fast cable system, excess of
10000 kbps. that typically runs at 200 kpbs or less. I disabled the
onboard nic and put in a replacement pci card. First connection hit
11500 kbps immediately afterwards dropped to under 400 kbps.

This is a direct connection without a router. Exact same results using
Linux or XP.

As a control test I connected my laptop and get routinely above 11500
kbps. That makes me believe the Dell likely has a motherboard that is
failing. Any other possibility?
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where are you getting the speed results from?

what browers?

USB or RJ45 cables?
 
Hi,

On your sister's Dell, you might try to go into the Configuration ->
Advanced tab for the NIC, and try different settings for the
speed/duplex settings (or something equivalent to that). It's probably
set to Full Autonegotiation by default or something similar, but I've
run into situations where I had to specifically set, for example, "Force
10 full-duplex", etc.

Jim
 
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