This is another one of its 'features'. Enjoy.... It's purposely throttled so that it doesn't interfere with the 'user experience'. Same with networking. I found the following doubles my net speed to what a 900MHz Celeron can do ... :O http://farmanager.com/ It's a file manager in a command window that seems to bypass some of this throttling mechanism. Let us know how that does with it. David VanHorn wrote: > Might be interesting to try, I dumped vista when it took more than > seven hours to move 4G of data between two SATA drives. The same > machine under XP did that in minutes. Ubuntu isn't having any speed > issues either. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist