[Gllug] Electrical interferense?

[Rich Walker]

"Henrik Morsing" <henrik at morsing.cc> writes:

> Hello guys,
> I've just moved house and have some unexplainable problems.
>
> 1. My main (8 year old PII) computer has slowed down about 50 times. It
> now takes 1:40 to boot up. I tried reinstalling it but even the
> installation process is extremely slow. There's nothing in the logs, no
> errors, no cpu usage and no I/O wait. It seems as if the CPUs themselves
> have just slowed down!

I have seen this with machines occasionally. 

You *are* using STP rather than UTP for your network cables?

Also, try ping -f between two machines - I've seen network cards that
worked perfectly for a ping -f's b, but fail for b ping -f's a. 

> 2. My network sometimes becomes extremely slow (and even terminates ssh
> sessions). There are no network errors at all.



>
> 3. I can no longer use VPN to work. It sometimes logs me in but then kicks
> me off again.
>
> 4. I borrowed a 3G (Orange) card but it was too slow.

Umm - if there's *nothing* else plugged in to that machine, and the 3G
card works well elsewhere, then it looks like excessive EMI. Shop the
power company for failing EMC compliance regulations?

cheers, Rich,

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