On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 06:56 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > Hi, > > For the past 5 years I had the cable modem facing downstream VOIP > motorola box and that was facing the netgear router (with wireless). > Since my son moved out, three months ago and took the spare computer, > I became a one computer owner. > > I left the router in the loop, as I thought to obtain a second > computer to replace what I gave away. > > Yesterday, I bypassed the router, and noted a marked improvement in > response times. Is it subjective? Firefox appears to works better, > with what appears to be faster responses. I also noted that Firefox > did not lose responses. (I had the problem with the router in place > that Firefox would hang, waiting for a return response. To get that > final or missing response, I had to click on the refresh button. Now, > it does not seem to hang). ---- Try disabling ipv6 the next time you insert the router in between. If you don't have ipv6 DNS resolution, it can slow things up considerably. Craig
