[ILUG] eircom broadband connection, down or slow in linux, fast in windows.

[John Mc Elroy]

I am a newbie and seek some pointers. I have partitioned the hard drive and am
running win2000 and mandrake linux community 10.1 on a dual boot. My internet
connection is swift and reliable on the windows os but is slow or non existent
in linux. I have read the thread in the archives and it seems ipv6 could be
the problem and I may need to disable it. How do I do this? Any other suggestions?
I have a netopia cayman 3341 router from Eircom connected on an ethernet port.
Pinging in linux timesout.