* wgerrard (wgerrard@nc.rr.com) [030926 09:52]:
expatriate wrote:
1) Are you using the ethernet connection? 2) If it is, are you using a static IP address or some internal DHCP? (I only use ethernet since I have a switch between my modem and the house computers) 3) What does ipconfig say? (run as root) 3) Can you show us your /etc/resolv.conf file? Does it contain more than TWR's nameservers?
--Ethernet, a RealTek card; --DHCP from RoadRunner; --no switches, hubs, routers, etc.; --can't show you ipconfig output since I've got XP on the machine right now (it did show the card took the leased IP address and seemed normal otherwise; I do recall MTU was 1500) --ditto for /etc/resolv.conf, but it was OK: three RoadRunner nameservers and their search domain.
Was it slow on your DSL setup? If it wasn't then it may be the fact that their DNS servers are just overloaded and slow to respond. I've seen this quite a lot with different providers. I also saw it with my company since we are a telco/ISP. We had our DNS servers on some slow machines 4x450 E420's (2 machines) and they were ok..but a bit slow. But then myself and a co-worker rebuilt the machines using Sunfire v210's and things zoom along now. It may not be anything you did ..that is if your DSL wasn't slow but the cable is. Also, remember that one of the drawbacks of cable is that you're on a grid with other users. I don't know that cable has overcome the problem of " the more users on the grid, the slower the connection " which cable use to suffer from. Since your on XP try doing some traceroutes and what not to see if there is packet loss and what your response times are. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.