On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:11:52PM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I want to thank you all for your ideas.
> 
> I eventually fixed the problem - by chance (Murphy's...).
> 
> I have asked my Cable company to provide me with a fixed IP, so I can 
> rid of the annoying DHCP client (which I suspected).

dhcp gives you an address. The clients makes settings according to this
address. It does not affect your IP communication other than that.

> 
> No my computer boots a lot faster 

dhcp (if works well) should only take a number of seconds. 

> and the apps start 80% faster (as they 
> should, i.e.: 
> 
> Before: Mozilla browser would open a URL in 15-20 secs
> Now: 5-7 secs.

Why this effect? Something must have been wrong with name resolution .
But what?

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