LOL - cheyenne1212.....Gigabyte line !! Hopefully someone will invent gigabyte routers (just for you !) Which brings me to 2 points. My Mandrake clocks downloads at 5 mbits: whereas Windows 2K / XP clock at about 2.5 mbits. Obviously O/S makes a difference.

Second point - What is the speed of the 'internet' ? A Fibre line can be blazingly fast..but then it hits a router with max 1 mbit (or lower) speed. Used to be old routers with 567 (?) bytes max.