Dear Experts:
Thank you for trying to help me sort this out. I have just installed linux mandriva 2006 the free edition. and i am a total nube at linux. ive just downloaded and installed it. the installation went good with no erros or anything. I had trubles configuring my ADSL Modem Speedtouch330 {Silver} By Alchatel Thomson but thanks god i could sort it out everntually and i made my moderm work under linux. My dsl speed is 256Kb/s and in windows my speed is good. But in linux.. the speed sux!! there is alot of diffirance between borwsing in linux and in windows!! the speed is as a doggy 56k dial up!! so what could be the problem?? do u have to configure something or add something to the configration? did i forget something.. what should i do! :S im using mandriva 2006* 64 Edition
thanks for your help.

my machine is: Amd 3000*64bit, HD IDE 40GB, SATA 160GB where linux is installed, MSI motherboard k8n. Adsl=256kb/s

I am reluctant to recommend 64 bit to anyone at the moment so while waiting for a better reply try the GPL 32 bit download from your fav mirror.

(2) Thankyou for telling us what troubleshooting you have already done. I am guessing you may still have some issues with the way the modem has been configured. Generally speaking Linux prefers router/modems

3) pls read this HCL thread on alcatel on how to configure and good luck
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...cat/163/page/1

thank you aus9 for your help..
the problem have been solved by re-installing mandriva linux 2006 64bit edition. I think maybe the problem that ive configured my alchatel speedtouch330 by mistake wrongly and then i ve configured it right.. but some bugs just wasnt deleted from the previous configration that made it lack..
but now i've comfigured it right at the first time so the speed of brownsing now is even more fast than browsing on windows!
weird isnt it?? But thanks to linux and all the people in these forums for there help and support for linux newbies
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