I have recently installed Fedora Core 3.
No problems there.
However, when I go on internet the transfer is very slow.
When I download updates, I find transfer speeds of 3KB / sec.
I have broadband, and do not understand where the problem can be.
Can anyone help ?
Thank you

"When I download updates, I find transfer speeds of 3KB / sec"

Download updates from another mirror.

And what about other files?

You gave no details.. What about them? This isn't the psychic hotline, so please list your hardware, os, and network setup in detail.

Are you getting that speed on all files and other stuff from the internet, or just the updates?

Thank you all for your reply.

As you can see, I am quite new to Linux and to forums.

Let's try again.

What I am trying to say is that I have started experimenting with Linux on a two year old Dell. Intel Pentium III, 996 MHz, 256 MB of Ram.

I have installed Fedora Core 3, and I immediately had some 150 updates to install. This went very slowly (3 Kb per second) and this made me think that maybe there was something wrong with my internet connections.

Also whenever I download pages on internet (Firefox), pages load very slowly : it looks like a modem connection.

On the other hand, copying and transferring other documents from a local hard drive to an external hard drive, is very fast.

My internet connection is broadband, via a 3com router because I share my internet connection with two or three wireless computers and laptops. Even when these are not working there is no change.

Can you help.
Thank you

Marcq

Intel Pentium III, 996 MHz, 256 MB of Ram.
Fedora Core 3
Broadband connection via a router.

Put in the IP of your router in /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Also, are you using wireless or RJ-45?