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I have also tried putting the old router back in and testing again. 4Mbit across the board, which shows THAT speed is a router issue. I have also tried setting the router MTU value on the Netgear to 1472, which is what Virgin seem to be using, and it made a very small difference to the XP connection speed (slightly faster) but had no effect on the windows 2000 speed. The obvious conclusion is that the windows 2000 installations have much slower network transfer rates than either XP or Kubuntu, but why? Anyone?

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Google for Dr.TCP, and install/run it on those old boxes. It's probably just a low MTU on Win2000 or something.

The Kubuntu box should be able to do better than the 13.5mb/s as well, probably due to old defaults for TCP window size and/or scaling. A kernel newer than 2.6.18 will have faster defaults.

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