[GRLUG] slow web surfing

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 13:23 -0500, Brad Becker wrote:
> Hey folks, I recently installed CentOS 6.3 to run an OpenArena server.
> While it works well, my web surfing experience on Firefox 10.0.10 has
> been, well, painful to say the least.  Often times web sites are slow
> to load, other times the connection simply times out.
> This is a wired connection on a dual boot pc running Win 7.  I
> experience none of the sluggishness in Win.  I'm looking for
> suggestions (in preferably layman's terms) in order to get some zing
> back into my browsing experience.

How do DNS lookups perform?  This is often the source of 'slow network'
complaints.  Check that /etc/resolv.conf reflects the same thing under
both operating systems.

Otherwise use ss to see the latency of your connections when browsing.
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