Comment 10 for bug 853671

Seems to work better indeed.
I could not test it with the same setup, but was able to transfer a few gigabytes of files over the network (but with fixed IP. could not test DHCP).
I think this commit could be the cause of the improvement (but I'm not sure. never touched the network stack before).
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=70090424e59652c4b2e777b533cc23134b176b83