Gnome Ethernet Very Slow

[Tim]

Danny Browne wrote:

>Basically my internet connection is very very slow whe using gnome browsers (or any app).  but its a DSL line, and its as fast as it should be when downlaoding something from teminal???
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>Free BSD 4.10 i386
>Gnome 2.8
>Realtek ethernet card
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>??
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>Any ideas?
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Check your DNS settings, make sure resolv.conf points to a valid DNS 
server that you can access. I had the same problem, turned out I 
mistyped my DNS server. Console stuff (ftp, ping, telnet, etc) worked 
fine, but couldn't get a browser to do a darn thing.