We recently had BT Infinity installed and now have a download connection to the house, running at nearly 40Mb. The download speed to my xps 1330 laptop, connected by ethernet to the modem ( a BT home hub 3) is very good 35 Mb plus. However the speed to my desktops has not changed. I have a dimension 9150 and a 9200. Both were tested using the same ethernet cable and with only 1 machine at a time connected to the modem.
Both machines have Pentium 4 3.4 ghz process and both have 2Mb of RAM. Both are running XP. The 9200 has a recent reinstall of XP; the 9150 has a lot of clutter and needs a reinstall. There wasnt, however, a lot of difference in the internet download speed around 6.7 Mb for the 9150 and 8-10 Mb for the 9200.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am wondering if I should just bite the bullet and get a new desktop!