[CS-FSLUG] Wget getting sloooowwww

[Don Parris]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:17:31 -0500, Brian Derr <bderr at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
I assume - the guy this post is for is a UF lurker.  He loves the comic.

Don
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