THAT is an old router. Many of those older routers had a max throughput of 30Mbps (on the bus!) and I suspect you are going to find it will never get past that max speed. To utilize your 100Mbps, I would suggest a new router ( gigabit speeds) which will serve you far better.

CB.. WOW!.. I could have written your EXACT reply ! I'm 54, sounds like I do a *litte* more web work than you do, however same here (winding down, bought a motorcycle, paying it all off, *finally* doing some LIFE stuff after a 35 year career in computers! ) To Ruby, I agree with quite afew here, change it up, do something FOR YOU in programming. Get it lighter and on a dev cycle that YOU like and get back to enjoying what you like to do - with out the hassles. And scale it back to enjoing it... not sweating over it. I have tossed out MANY of the tools and issues that frustrate me, and started enjoying simpicity of *programming* instead of hacking everything to get it all working. --C