Re: slow surfing broadband under FC5

Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> Hope someone can help.
>
> I have 512k ADSL broadband and connected to the internet via a D-Link
> modem/touter. A laptop with XP and everything is fine on that.
> < http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#> Another laptop with a dual boot
> system. I have Win XP (and again everything is fine) and FC5.
>
> The problem is when I am surfing the internet under FC5 Linux. Certain
> sites are fine, but some (google.com <http://google.com>, www.smh.com.au
> < http://www.smh.com.au>, etc,  to name a few) just don't load, sometime,
> it keeps "looking up ... ' or  'connecting to ...'.   sometime, it
> stoped with ' loading problem ...', most of the time it just stops after
> loading the banners.
>
> the ethenet connection obtains auto dynemic ip address.
>
> Any thoughts anyone? I am using the Firefox 1.5.0.7 < http://1.5.0.7>
> browser.
> Yuandan
>

Is IPv6 still a problem in FC5?  Is it enabled?  If it is, try turning
it off.