It sounds to me like your /etc/resolv.conf file may have a bad dns
server listed,
causing things to time out until the next one is tried. A browser can
look up
addresses many times, whereas a mail or ftp client looks them up once, or at
least I imagine that to be the case. Try commenting out the first
server in the
resolv.conf file by placing the # character at the start of the line and
see if things
speed up.
scott
Bob Stia wrote:
>On Friday 09 July 2004 08:47 am, Levi Bard wrote:
>
>
>>>Recently developed an annoying problem with Mozilla. It loads
>>>webpages from the internet extremely slowly. I can watch the data
>>>rate download from kinternet. I will get a short burst of data,
>>>then it will be idle for 15 or 20 or 30 seconds and then get
>>>another short burst. This can continue for 15 or 20 minutes until
>>>a page is completely loaded.
>>>
>>>This doesn't happen downloading mail or ftp. Although slow, (about
>>>4 kb/s ) they don't have that "burst" then "stop" problem.
>>>
>>>Running SuSE 8.2, KDE 3.2.3, Mozilla 5.0 rev. 1.6. , US Robotics PCI
>>>56k modem.
>>>
>>>Any ideas from the Sluggers ??
>>>
>>>
>>Did you try turning on link prefetching
>>(Preferences->Advanced->Cache)? Problem might be latency with the
>>server at the other end, too - to load a page with 20 images, a
>>browser has to make 21 http requests. So if it takes the server a
>>few seconds to respond to each one...
>>Or it might be your ISP. Does it happen with other browsers?
>>
>>
>
>Hi Levi,
>
>Thanks for replying. Yes have pre-fetching turned on, and yes, it seems
>to happen with Konqueror also. Seems to be a little faster in Konq but
>hard to tell.
>
>As to the ISP, I would think that data download would be the same for
>all services, e-mail, ftp, and http. May be wrong though. What gets
>me is the download burst, then the long wait without data, and then the
>download burst again, repeated over and over. It is especially
>gruesome with a page like Tampa Bay Online where they seem to call god
>knows how many different addresses. So you are right on that call
>
>I really really hate to say this, but my W98 dual boot with an old
>Netscape is a lot faster. Hey guys, NO Flames please!!! Just stating a
>fact and I don't like it any better than you do. And the only reason I
>know that is I purposely went and tried it to compare.
>
>Any other suggestions or enlightenment anyone?
>
>Bob S.
>
>
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