I've had almost exactly the same experience. Really slow internet  
connectivity in general. I think I have it narrowed down to wireless  
using WEP. I hooked up an old fashioned ethernet cable (remember  
those?) and everything is lickety split fast. HTH.

On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Roger Pack wrote:
> Chris Shea wrote:
>> Just a couple of days ago I "upgraded" from Tiger to Leopard, and the
>> most horrible thing about it is that anything Ruby does over the
>> internet is so very very slow now. `which ruby` tells me I'm still
>> using my from-source install in /usr/local/bin, as does `which gem`.
>>