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).

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