[gentoo-user] Network Speed

[Statux]

I noticed something today. For some reason, when I'm running a Gentoo
Live-CD to rebuild this system (as I am now in the finishing stages of
once again) I get really speedy data xfer rates over my cable link
pulling files from portage mirrors. I noticed that 1.2MB/s was average
which is correct because I think my ISP runs around 10Mbit or there
abouts. However, when I rebooted the machine, pulling files from the
same mirror(s) now seems to go much slower (say, 170KB/s tops). Come to
think of it, I have noticed that difference before. I never get xfer
rates normally like I do when running the live-cd.

During the install, I run net-setup and just tell it to use dhcp (my
router issues addresses which is fine when doing an install since the
system isn't really set up to be interesting to anyone else yet). When I
am all set for production again, I use the same settings, hardcoded, as
the router receives from the modem and passes to clients, just a
different address obviously.

So my question seems to be: What might the live-cd be doing which I am
not? Is it something in the kernel or could the xfer rate be throttled
somewhere, etc?

Ideas? Thanks.

-Statux