I am looking for some help. I am running a athlon 3000 512 mg of ram. I have tried three different nic cards and can not get any of them to set to anything higher than 10mbps. I am wire connected to a dlink DI 713P router. My two other wireless connections seem to work fine and even though they are restricted (802.11b)they are working faster than my wired connection. The three cards are a Realtek RTL8139/810x family fast ethernet card, A Dlink DFE 530TX+ RevD2 and the lan card on the motherboard VIA Rhine II fast ethernet adapter. I unplugged my router overnight and this morning it worked fine. It has since degraded back to unbearably slow...I am ready to get the hammer out!! zazen66

What is slow? The Internet or your LAN? I haven't used a Dlink but it might have a setting that sets the router's speed. But, I haven't used it so I can't tell you for sure. If it does, that would explain why it worked after resetting it. Check the settings and see if such an option exists. Another thing you can check is your NIC properties via the Device Manager, and make sure it's set to 100 Mb Full Duplex and see if that makes a difference. "Computer security." — Oxymoron

you can't hardcode the nic to 100/full when the device only knows autonegotiate , this creates a speed/duplex mismatch and creates all kinds of errors , must be left at auto or you can try setting it at 100/half . Make sure you aren't plugged into the WAN port on the router . Also make sure your pathc cable is a good know cat 5 or better patch .

The router is supposed to be 10/100 and I have looked through it and I can find no setting to set it one way or the other. I have tried setting the nic to 100/half 100/full 10/half 10/full and auto negotiatate. the only settings that work are the 10 settings. I am trying to run windows update now to see if anything was missing from the OS zazen66

I tried a new cable. No luck. When I set the NIC to 100 either half or full the card sends but the router does not send back...I wonder if a firmware upgrade would work for the router zazen66