In linux.debian.user you wrote: > With this discussion on a download accelerator ... > > What I really need is the opposite. I have a full time > connection. The problem is that when I download something > large, like a CD image, other activity slows down, often to > the point of being unusable. That happens here when I use a 2.4 kernel. Switching to a 2.2 kernel and all is well again. It's supposed to be fixed in the 2.6 series.