[ale] Routing slow on certain sites

Jim Seymour bluejay at speedfactory.net
Mon Jan 17 13:45:41 EST 2005


On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:09:05PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> 
> The most common message while waiting (forever) is "Opening page
> ........" The browser is IE 6. I'll have a chat with the girlfriend
> about installing a different browser. The slowness goes way beyond
> aol.com. Some other sites that wouldn't load on the Win box that I could
> turn around and load immediately on the Linux router are:
> 
> www.star94.com
> www.morningstar.com
> www.half.com
> www.bankofamerica.com
> 
> I turned off the "QoS Packet Scheduler" on the Win box to see if could
> be part of the problem....no difference. Any other ideas in the
> meantime?
>

I should also add that if I disable the lan connection on the Win XP box
I can connect to all of these sites quickly using a dial-up connection.

Thanks,

Jim Seymour



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