Network connection

[heimo]

David Andrew Wrote: 
> 
> With my connection - I can not connect to a number of websites - for
> example search engines, new.bbc.co.uk and some others - and it is often
> a very slow connection.
> 

It sounds a lot like these errors I've seen on ubuntuforums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=53451

In other words, try disabling ipv6.

Let us know if this has any effect.

Cheers!


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heimo