[GRLUG] slow web surfing

[Brad Becker]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Brad Becker wrote:

> 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.*
>
> Adam writes:

> 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.
> <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2012/10/d-is-for-debugging.html>
>
> DNS is the same for both.

ss?  Also, I checked out the url and did not readily see mention of 'ss'.
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