Felix Boecker wrote:
> alright, I'm having a rather bizarre problem to which I have found no
> solution as of yet.
>
> when h'm at home, I connect through a broadband connection and web
> pages load (in accordance with what anyone would expect from broadband
> Internet) reasonably fast.
>
> at school, however (using the same setup), web pages load terribly
> slow. A dial-up connection would be faster.
>
> I'm running Suse 9.1, it's a wired 10/100 Ethernet card (a build-in of
> my IBM A31) and the network here requires authorization (a simple web
> logon that sets a cookie for 12 hours or so). What strikes me is that
> any windoze or mac client doesn't have this problem. It has always
> been me running linux (I've had the same problem running FC1, FC2 and
> Onebase in the past). I have even tried disabling the firewall,
> without any positive results.
>
> Does anyone know where the problem might be?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Felix
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how does ftp or some other service work when you are at school? If it
is quick then it's probably a dns problem with the possibility of it
timing out.
scott
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