Slow networking?

[Darren Critchley]

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.'"
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Might be a bug/issue that was listed earlier, sorry I don't have a link, 
but search the archives for slow DNS on firefox. It will lead to a link 
that shows how to disable IPv6 which may be responsible for your slow 
internet.

Darren