You may both need to reconfigure your LWs. I recently upgraded to 10.3.4 myself and redld LW. If I had kept it's original settings then my dld speeds would be just about the same, so go to the Preferences and check the settings according to a thread in these here forums entitled :"need for speed".

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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