Downloads are consistently corrupt, what are the potential causes?

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Published on 2010-05-10T20:12:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 20:14 UTC
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I am consistently experiencing corrupt downloads over TCP/IP and Ethernet on a small LAN, the downloads are coming from different sources on the Internet. WAN is comcast cable.. NIC is brand new.

My theory is that this is being caused by a bad ethernet cable.

What are the possible causes? I am in the process of testing the ethernet theory now.

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