As the subject says, this is a strange one...
From what I can tell, it appears that firefox might be throttling my download speed. I've tried downloading from a number of different places and the speed never gets above 4kbs, which since I'm on ADSL (finally) is a bit slow. Judging from the amount downloaded (ie. 700 k in a couple of minutes), it's reporting the speed accurately (or thereabouts) and everything else I do happens at the speed I would expect it (apt-getting 90mb's of data in half an hour or so etc.).
Is it my imagination? Have all the servers I've tried to download from recently just been slow? Or is there some sort of option I need to set somewhere ;) Anyone? Please? I'm using sarge (albeit with a freshly downloaded gimp 2.0, but I doubt that will make a difference).
Cheers,
BenE