Gigabit on an R-40. . .

[Wayne]

My home network uses a Linksys WRT350N Gigabit/wireless router. My desktops are IBM ThinkCentres with on-board Gigabit and a home built web server with a Gigabit PC card. File/folder transfers are blazingly fast between desktops.

My R-40 notebook has a built in 10/100 LAN and to get it up to speed I purchased a Netgear Gigabit PCMCIA card. Installed it, zero problems. It connects to my network and to the net.

As a "what if" test I transferred a 40 Meg folder from a desktop to the laptop. It took forever, over thirty seconds. The same folder between desktops took about four seconds. The same file using the 10/100 port on the laptop took about five seconds

Any thoughts as to why the folder transfer took so long via the Gigabit PCMCIA card?

Wayne