My husband has a really old laptop that I trying to make workable for him, (nothing more than that really). It's hard drive is only just over 6gb. It's so old that it doesn't have an ethernet socket. As a consequence I bought the said rj45 adapter, (He doesn't want to use my laptop as it is Win7 and he won't use anything more "complicated" than XP ha ha).The rj45 came with a disc containing it's drivers. I selected the XP set-up application and installed it sucessfully. Using our ethernet plug I managed to get online. It seemed to have configured itself, but I'm not so sure.It is an SR9600 USB to fast ethenet adapter. The driver is sr9usb.sys and it says connection type - Auto sense.Now I live in the mountains in Spain and can only get broadband by satellite and it is very slow, approx. 0.2 - 0.4mb, but it's enough to get by on. Now although I guessed that using an adapter would slow down the speed even further, this is ridiculous. Whilst updating Kaspersky it had been online for 33 minutes and had sent only 158 packets, (Don't know what that means but I know that it's not much), and received just 92.Is this right do you think Is it OK to just accept that it has configured itself? Or is there something else that I need to do?Thanks for any help.Jane1 person got this answerI do too