This one time, at band camp, Ashley wrote: > I have just (within the past week) installed an ADSL (512k) connection. > I am really happy with the download rate, but have experienced no > improvement in the speed of loading pages in Firefox. It seems that > dialup speed is all I get there. Is there something that I need to > change in my browser to speed it up. The speed my daughter gets on her > XP system is amazing. We both use Firefox but her pages load really quickly.
Sounds like name server problems. Check what DNS server you're using (/etc/resolv.conf) and compare with those used by the XP system (ipconfig). -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "It is grossly irresponsible to connect a Windows machine directly to the net. ;-)" - John Wiltshire on the Sydney Linux User Group mailing list -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
