Slow networking?

[david]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 22:55 -0400, Seth Williamson wrote:
> In a note to me on another topic, there was this graf in passing from
> another Ubuntu user.  I don't network so it's not an issue for me, but
> I'm curious if anybody else has encountered this behavior:
> 
> "In general, I am quite pleased with Ubuntu, but for one thing: slow 
> networking.  (Much slower even than Windows!)  This is something I've 
> never encountered while running any other Linux distro.  DNS lookups 
> while surfing and checking email drag, and browsing disk shares on my 
> Samba server is agonizing!  My NIC is a run-of-the-mill 3Com 3C905, well
> supported under Linux, so I'm a little baffled.  There may be some 
> services running which are causing the problem, but I have not had time 
> to dig around 'under the hood.'"
> 
> 
> Seth Williamson
> Daleville, VA
> 
> 

I haven't experienced that at all. Network for me is jus' fine, faster
than Windows can manage. (I get 30-36k on a 256k connection.)

regards

David