As the subject says, this is a strange one...
From what I can tell, it appears that firefox might be throttling my download speed. I've tried downloading from a number of different places and the speed never gets above 4kbs, which since I'm on ADSL (finally) is a bit slow. Judging from the amount downloaded (ie. 700 k in a couple of minutes), it's reporting the speed accurately (or thereabouts) and everything else I do happens at the speed I would expect it (apt-getting 90mb's of data in half an hour or so etc.).
Is it my imagination? Have all the servers I've tried to download from recently just been slow? Or is there some sort of option I need to set somewhere ;) Anyone? Please? I'm using sarge (albeit with a freshly downloaded gimp 2.0, but I doubt that will make a difference).
Cheers,
BenE
On Monday 19 April 2004 20:38, BenEBoy wrote:
As the subject says, this is a strange one...
From what I can tell, it appears that firefox might be throttling my download speed. I've tried downloading from a number of different places and the speed never gets above 4kbs, which since I'm on ADSL (finally) is a bit slow. Judging from the amount downloaded (ie. 700 k in a couple of minutes), it's reporting the speed accurately (or thereabouts) and everything else I do happens at the speed I would expect it (apt-getting 90mb's of data in half an hour or so etc.).
It's funny you mention that, I have had a problem with the build of Firebird that comes with SuSE 9.0 (Gecko/20030821 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+)
When visiting certain sites (one of note being ebay) The browser seems to get stuck for ages on "resolving host........" or "transferring data from ..........." half way through loading the front page or during login, this wait can be up to 40 seconds. Konq behaves perfectly on the same site and in all other respects my ADSL connection and my ISP's name servers seem to be fine.
I figured it being something nasty on ebay's site that was upsetting Moz, but I've had the same problems on other sites as well (theregister.co.uk being one)
I very nearly upgraded to Firefox, but when installing it I don't get the nice AA fonts as I do in the SuSE installed version, haven't worked out how to set them up yet so I am stuck with Firebird for now.
Downloads are fine though, so a different problem to yours, sorry, you just jogged my memory.
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Wayne Stallwood