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sites take too long to connect

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foshizzle

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I just got DSL installed, and it works fine except for a few web sites. The only one I can remember now is slashdot.org. What happens is that when I try to go to that site, te browser(mozilla)says waiting for slashdot.org, then it waits for about 20 seconds, then it finally connects, at which point the page loads up, in less than a second. This has happened a few times on other sites too, I just can't remember which ones. Slashdot actually connected faster when I had dial up(through the same provider as my DSL). It does this same thing on 2 other comps and if I connect the comp directly to the DSL modem(no router). If I do a tracert on it, it looks like it's dropping packets in california, and I can't ping slashdot.org, though this is prolly because they don't accept ping packets. Could this be a problem with my ISP or what?

On a side note, when I try to ping the next router after my house( I guess it's the gateway?), it takes 74 ms, should it be that high with DSL?
 
go to dslreports.com to compare yoru results with others. there is alos a speed test there under Tools.


some sites just might be busy.

go look and compare.
 
but the thing isn't the dl speed or anything(I don't even care about the ping thing, I was just curious if that's a reasonable ping time for dsl), it's that slashdot.org takes a good 20+seconds to respond, and after it does it loads instantly. I know that the slashdot servers aren't that overloaded, even on modem, it would load completely in less than 10 seconds.
 
it could be a ton of things that casue this slow down

could be internet congestion in India causing it.

sounds like you might just be tacking a bad routing route when you go there.

also some sites may appear to be waiting on info, but they are actually working on the server to generate the page, and then when the server side info is down the info comes down fast.

i wouldnt worry too much about it esepcially not if we are tlakign seconds of time.
 
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