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I have just installed Slackware 10 with kde. For web browsing i use Firefox 1.0.4. I access the internet using dialup with a 56K external modem.
Does anybody have a clue why my browsing speed is a lot slower in Slackware than my browsing speed in windows??? I tried downloading a simple txt file and firefox's download manager showed me the lightning fast speed of 0.9Kbps!
then ping google's ip address (if i'm not mistaken the previous ping should list the ip address you're pinging) like this:
ping 72.220.58.100
if you don't know google's ip, you can look it up with dig www.google.com i believe. so anyway, see if there's a difference in how long the pings take.
Is it your browsing that is slow or only downloading files? The built in download manager in Firefox sucks. Get something like the Flashgot extension and use a third party download manager like Kget.
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