[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow when Connected to Net

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Brown" <dutch_brown at earthlink.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:16 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Slow when Connected to Net


> My system Red Hat 3.0 WS ES is slow when pulling up the net via a web
browser.
> I am on a Toshiba Laptop with 512 SDRAM and 2.4GHz Processor. Plenty of
juice
> and very fast when not online. In looking at my KDE System guard the
> connection is really eating up my processor. Is there something I can do
to
> tune this a bit? It takes a full 30 seconds or so just to pull up my web
> browser. This is a recent issue, has not always been this slow.
>
> ab



I am assuming you use DHCP to get an ip address, right?

What does /etc/hosts look like?  How about /etc/resolv.conf?

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Regards,
Thomas Cameron