When I'm about to transfer huge files with the integrated ethernet of my pcchips 810 motherboard, I can transfer 20/50MB very fast, but then the speed reduces to few KB/s. I think this is a known issue in older kernels, but I don't know if it has been fixed. I use 2.4.20...
bye bye thank you as
P.S. I also had problems with an athlon 2000+ installed on this motherboard: SSE are not enabled, crashing programs like mplayer that require them.