I have a 8.2 machine co-hosted in a remote state from me. When I connect via the Web, SSH, or SMTP, it's fast. When I connect via POP3 I have to wait about 25 seconds, and for FTP I have to wait about 10 seconds. This has been the case for many months. There was a period of, perhaps a week when everything was fast. But then it reverted back to "some fast, some slow".
It didn't make sense that it was my box, so I did a traceroute and found a couple of places where things always slow down--all on UUNet, the network on which my box is hosted. I called them for help, but they wouldn't look into it because I'm not a direct customer. I then had my ISP call, and they were told that as long as the connection _works_ we don't give a damn how long we have to wait. My ISP said that if more people brought it to their attention that they might look into it. Of course I have no idea of _really_ knowing whether others have called about this. So I dunno. Any ideas? I'm really sick of waiting a half-minute to connect to my POP server. Miark
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