In article <2hl00gFe6n31U1@uni-berlin.de>,
 "mr.sumo.snr" <llanelli14NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I can't be 100% sure - but I switched out my Gigabyte motherboard for a new
> AOpen AX4SPE Max II last weekend - it has a 1 gig lan port - and downloads
> this week seem to have been faster.  I have no empirical data - and am too
> lazy to conduct tests.

Logically speaking, having a gigabit interface shouldn't make a 
difference unless whatever your PC is connected to also has a gigbit 
interface, and you are downloading data faster than 100Mbps - or 
actually ~88Mbps because this is pretty much the maximum you can get 
from a 100Mbps interface.

Of course, if you are juggling giga-byte size files over your LAN 
continuously while downloading, or perhaps streaming real-time HDTV 
video then it might take up enough bandwidth to slow down your 
downloads, but I really, really doubt it.

Care for a placebo?

-- 
Rodney Webster
http://knot.mine.nu/