Hello,

I have seen similar problems discussed on this board, but nothing that seemed identical to mine or with answers in language that I could understand. Sorry if this seems redundant.

I am dualbooting Red Hat Linux 9.0 and Windows XP Pro.

My internet connection is a broadband connection through a netgear rp614 router.

When I use mozilla in linux to access the internet it takes a very long time for pages to load and it also takes a long time to access the e-mail server.

Both of these tasks are very fast in Windows XP Pro.

I want to be able to do most of my computing in Linux and maybe even get rid of Windows, but this is not possible if I do not have comparable internet access. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

saxblue

do you get the same sort of treacle effect when you browse using IP's insted of DNS names ? try a traceroute to google or something and see which hops are causing the speed problems, I'd very much doubt that these problems are being caused by something local if you only have one hop to your router

The effect is the same whether using ip addresses or names. This is extremely frustrating. I am about ready to uninstall linux and go back to windows. Internet is lightening fast with windows but so slow on linux.

saxblue

i have the same prob on suse 8.2 - all other os are much faster resolving the host names (i am running multiple machines with win xp, win2k, solaris9, mandrake 9.1 and suse 8.2 in the same network). any idea?

one step further: i just installed internet explorer 6 on this machine (with crossover 2), and host resolving is much faster now. don't know yet what this means, but stay tuned...

okay, found a solution for the prob: in my configuration, dns-address was the ip of my router, set up automatically. this made the whole thing somehow slow. now i added the dns-server-ip of my internet provider as 1. dns, 2. dns is my router - everthing works great now!