I hope this is the right place to post this. I have an Acer Aspire One - 150 Model ZG5 with Windows XP Home Ed. sp3 and everything seems to work quite well with exception to the wired lan ( RTL 8102E ) Whenever I copy across my lan using the wired lan it starts out fast then drops off sometimes taking as long as 20 minutes to copy a 500MB file. It doesn't matter if I'm copying to or from it there's a huge performance problem. Now here's where it gets even more weird. If I boot in safe mode with network enabled the problem clears up OR if I boot normal mode and while transferring through the lan launch a program that utilizes the hard drive - ie scan the hard drive with my AV or play a movie etc. It's very noticeable too since I can see the copy time remaining literally jump down from 30 minutes to 3-4 minutes as soon as the hard drive starts working harder. I thought maybe it was a defective unit so I returned it but the replacement is doing EXACTLY the same thing. I also tried installing an older driver for the RTL 8102E but that didn't help either. Notably the Wireless does not have the same issue and transfer speed is what you would expect. I did also notice that the recent bios updates have been mentioning issues with the lan. I have the latest bios and still have the problem. Anyone else noticing this? Joe