Well i finally did it, i spent some money on a router and got both slackware and windows xp online! And im must say it works great, slackware is unbelievably fast , but this is where the problem comes in... My computer (linux) is fast as hell, but the windows xp computer (my parents is slow as crap). Now they havent been on their computer lately, but i know when they do the first response will be "Your router is making my computer slow, take it off!" and bam no more slackware.... So my question is this, is there any way i can make the windows xp computer compare to slack in speed?

Thanks,
Volcom

Ehm... eheheh! this is a nice question... maybe you should send it to Redmond. I guess a small man with stupid face and glasses should give all of us an answer.

Tell them to install slackware
I don't understand this question fully, do you mean that the XP machine's internet connection will be slow, and your parents will blame your router?
If this is the case, then it would probably be a bad idea to use your slackware machine if it is to be used as a router, since that WOULD slow it down. Use another computer that goes through that router instead. And don't make it start up w/ a graphical enviroment (runlevel 5 i think), instead run it only in runlevel 3, which is a simple terminal, but which would be good enough for a router. And kill all unnessesary processes.

If you meant that your parents' computer is just intrisically slow, tell them to upgrade. Dell has some cheap stuff.

thanks for the replys but it didnt fully answer my question... let me restate it.

I have two computers (mine slackware and my parents xp). The Xp computer is about a month old, hasnt been used much. I bought a router last night, and wired everything up so that now both computers are on the net. The problem is the Xp computer is running extremely slow when it comes to the internet, but otherwise the speed is fine. Is there any way i can make the Windows Xp computer match the internet speed, of my slackware computer? Im not using the slackware computer as a router by the way.

if you slackware machine is doing some transfers this will slow down the other machine but under normal conditions like surfing the web this should not be happening

hey,

My parents have a Windows 2000 pc downstairs, and i've 4 linux boxes up here... they dont slow it down though... I think the only thing you could try to do is configure your Windows XP pc with a STATIC ip and DNS server... that would stop it from trying to resolving it every time ... and another note: Windows XP "fills" itselve... that means the longer you run it ... the slower it get ... try emptying temp files, adding more RAM / Disk space and remove services ( Start -> Run -> msconfig ). Also check for virusses...

Final Note: I wanted to do the same thing once... and i didn't succeed... for some reason i even get faster download speeds in Linux ( is this just linux lying about speed or ... ??? ) i dont know ... google.com and stuff loads faster to... Try getting your parents on red-hat... red-hat is allready pretty fool-proof for "dumb" users

Good luck

marno

I don't think your Linux box is slowing down the XP box. XP is slowing it down. i've had the same eXPeriance on my puter. XP and and Linux on seperate drives . Linux is much fasrer . Once in a while I try to use XP and become so frustrated I reboot to linux . Pages load faster and downloads are faster . My daughters puter [XP] is networked to mine, and she stays up and running flawlessly with the Linux gateway.