Direcpc & Network stalls

[ToppDogg <debianuser@rdoghouse.com>]

Hello,

I have just recently installed Debian and I am having some serious network 
problems with direcpc (win98 with winroute proxy) I am running kernel 2.4.9 
with a 3com 905TX.   All is good on the local network.  No problems surfing 
the web,  it is when I start to download anything 100K or larger it will 
stall, I will even stall doing an update in dselect.   I believe this to be a 
problem with the sattelite and latency, however this exact machine less then 
a week ago had redhat on it for over a year with no problems.    Please note 
that I can surf, pull email, so the network settings I believe are correct.  
I think the problem is more to the latency of the dish and timeout settings.  
 If you can help, this new debian user will be very happy!!!!

Thanks,
 Topp Dogg