[chasg]

Hi all,

I upgraded to a 1Mbit connection a couple of weeks ago and my max dl rate suddenly jumped to a sustainable 120KB/sec! 'Twas cool.

Before that I had a 512Kbit connection, and my max dl rate was 60KB/sec (obviously).

Problem: for the last two days I've been maxing at 60KB/sec for some reason. This is only happening on my G5, my iBook is still able to reach the max 120KB/sec, so the connection itself is still at 1Mbit.

Anybody have any idea as to why my G5 is only using 1/2 of the available bandwidth? (the iBook is not usually on the network, the G5 has exclusive use).

Thanks in advance for any help with this very confusing situation,

Chas

[chasg]

Never mind everyone, mystery solved. The solution is an interesting one:

Somebody close by has activated an open wi-fi adsl modem. I had airport running on the G5 to communicate with the iBook, and airport on the G5 was sitting at a higher networking priority than the ethernet connection. When my neighbor activated their wireless adsl connnection, my G5 grabbed on to that and thus I was suddenly using a 512 ADSL connection instead of my 1Mbit connection.

Strange stuff.

Chas