[CS-FSLUG] Wget getting sloooowwww

[Brian Derr]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 18:46 -0500, Don Parris wrote:
> A friend of mine is running a dual-boot WinXP & SUSE 9.2 system.  He
> is able to get to User Friendly (for example) in about 2 seconds using
> Firefox under X.  Same for WinXP.  Wget takes 30+ seconds, and
> frequently times out.  Ping takes at least 10 secs to start pinging,
> but dig takes a second or so.  WinXP's ping is blazing, as well.  Any
> ideas on what gives with the slowness of wget/ping under SUSE?


A router that doesn't like ICMP?  Why are you trying to wget User
Friendly, for local browsing?

-- 
Brian

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