[aclug-L] Re: netscape help

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 mmccur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has had a problem with netscape being
> slow just after you click on a link. It seems to wait 6-8 seconds
> be for doing anything. In fact on it connects it runs fairly fast.
> Also would this possibly have any thing to do with kppp. i set my
> mtu and mru to 500 and that seemed to help. I am running caldera
> 2.2 and it also with get halfway thru pulling up a web page and
> then will sometime stop an wait 10 seconds before i will just stop
> an sit for 10 seconds before it continues to load a page. this is
> a pent 75 machine i know it is not fast but should it be this
> slow? it has 48 megs of ram. i would be very thankful for any help
> or ideas on this problem. Thanks

Random pauses in loading web pages isn't too unusual -- that symptom
may not be something you can fix.  The pause after clicking a link
might be your DNS server being slow.  Try a couple command-line
nslookup's (nslookup www.yahoo.com) and see how it responds. You can
get a better idea of how your net connection is doing by starting a
ping when you dial up (ping your gateway) and then fire off netscape;
when you notice netscape slowing down, check the ping window. If
you're dropping packets or they're taking a long time to come back,
your ppp connection sucks.  If the ping is fine, we can narrow it down
towards netscape.

-jeff
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