Just to let everyone know, I figured out what was wrong. It seems that my ISP changed dns servers and did not tell me, so my dns addresses were bad. Interestingly enough, if I do not set any of my network addresses (static ip, dns) my connection time seems to be much faster. Thanks to all who helped me out John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
