On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:39:45 -0400, prc1
put finger to keyboard and composed:

I have a Toshiba 1905-S301 laptop that had its power supply blown up
in a lightning strike. I've gotten a new replacement adapter, and the
unit seems to be in great working shape.

Except...

I noticed an oddity when downloading some patches off a wired ethernet
connection the other evening. When the laptop has just been turned
on, everything's great--surfing and downloading speeds are super.
Then, after a while, internet access s-l-o-w-s down. New websites are
slow to load, downloads that were flying begin to creep...

...until I unplug the AC adapter. Then the speeds pick back up, sites
load quickly, downloads are fast.

Is it possible that your CPU is being throttled because of heat or
some other reason? You can use a utility such as RMClock to display
the CPU speed.

See this Usenet post:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...6?dmode=source

- Franc Zabkar
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