Strange - I ran from a Live CD and didn't experience the problem (got ~10 Mbps download). So I upgraded my hard drive from 10.04 and also didn't experience the problem. Then I put in a new hard drive and installed 10.10 fresh, and the problem started happening! Same laptop, just a different (newer/faster) hard drive. Getting about 1.5-3 Mbps!
Strange - I ran from a Live CD and didn't experience the problem (got ~10 Mbps download). So I upgraded my hard drive from 10.04 and also didn't experience the problem. Then I put in a new hard drive and installed 10.10 fresh, and the problem started happening! Same laptop, just a different (newer/faster) hard drive. Getting about 1.5-3 Mbps!