It's all good. I am unfamiliar with busybox so am fumbling around a bit myself. A any rate. Trying to find the right linux drivers for hardware takes searching. There is seldom a single place to look for drivers although a search of these forums is probably the best start. Since I am unfamiliar with...

I just compared my download speeds. Puppy was downloading at the same speed as my Windows partition over wireless. I would start by making sure that Puppy is using the correct or most current driver.

I concur with Dawnsboy. It sounds like the problem may be with your network card. It could be that Puppy is using an older or generic driver. Definitely worth checking out.

How much ram is in the system?

After a bit of fumbling around I got the wireless up and running successfully. Oh yea. I'm having fun.

Just thought I would introduce myself. I have been a nix user for about 5 years. My experience lies mostly with Ubuntu, Slackware and FreeBSD. I have had Puppy running on my Athlon X2 desktop and currently am running it on my MSI Wind. I am extremely impressed so far. I was floored to find out that ...