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Re: [Debian-NYC] Thanks for yesterday!



Hi - Thanks Lee - well I am trying to find the terminal and well I cant find it!  Where is it hidden in GNOME?

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Lee Azzarello <lee@rockingtiger.com> wrote:
Check your DNS resolvers. The fastest way to do this is to open a
terminal and type

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Copy and paste the output from the terminal in a reply to this email.

-lee

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:04 PM, steve beltzer <stevebeltzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,,
>
> Just took me 2 minutes 15 seconds to load nytimes.com via IceWeasel and
> wireless.
>
> the video runs smoothly when downloaded from nytimes.com though...
>
> 1 minute and 45 seconds to load nytimes.com with epiphany and wireless
>
> 2 minutes 10 seconds with loading nytimes.com via IceWeasel with cable
> connection
>
> 1 minute 50 seconds with epiphany and cable connection....
>
> Ideas?
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve--
>>
>> On 12/02/2010 09:37 AM, steve beltzer wrote:
>> > It was a good time and I managed to get Squeeze up and running with a
>> > lot of
>> > help!
>>
>> great, glad you made it out yesterday!
>>
>> > However what I noticed at Eyebeam and what I thought was just a slow
>> > wireless connection there is actually not.   Ice Weasel is running VERY
>> > slowly..   When I boot in Windows 7 my internet browsing is up to normal
>> > speed running Firefox.
>>
>> Could you characterize "very slowly" more specifically?  for example,
>> pick a particular web site and measure the time it takes to load.
>>
>> Also, could you try with another web browser (like epiphany, which
>> should be pre-installed with a stock debian desktop) on the same page?
>>
>> If both browsers seem equally slow, another thing worth looking at would
>> be the choice of network uplink -- if you're seeing slowness when
>> connected to your local wireless (even though it's fast under another
>> OS), can you try the same thing again connected to a wired connection?
>> That would help to rule out network driver flakiness as a source of delay.
>>
>> hth,
>>
>>        --dkg
>>
>>
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