slow surfing broadband under FC5

[Robin Laing]

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.

-- 
Robin Laing