Bandwidth hit in natd/ipfw on 4.4-RELEASE

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Hey, I just my got NAT box running 4.4-RELEASE on an old Pentium 90 and 
I'm experiencing a number of problems and I think they're related.. 
there's been a major bandwidth hit in all my web surfing and my ICQ, AOL and MSN (using both Trillian and Messenger) are dropping connections -- a lot. I don't think a single day's gone by without a connection dropping or two. As I said before, I've taken a bandwidth hit on my surfing as well -- to the point where connection attempts are completely timing out. I've included an abbreviated rc.conf and my natd.conf here..

rc.conf

<snip>
ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
ifconfig_dc0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
inetd_enable="YES"
<snip>
gateway_enable=YES
natd_enable=YES
natd_inteface=rl0
natd_flags="-config /etc/natd.conf"
firewall_enable=YES
firewall_type=OPEN

natd.conf

unregistered_only yes
same_ports yes
log yes
dynamic yes
interface rl0

Did I do anything wrong? Miss anything? Add anything unnecessary? The 
kernel's been recompiled as is appropriate.

Thanks in advance.

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