On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:14 PM, s.ross wrote: > 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. me too. this a leoTard issue. in general i'm finding it to be sucking the big one for networking - you can see the same behavior with curl as you'll find in ruby. i also disabled ipv6 and am using opendns for lookups. still slower than tiger though. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- it is not enough to be compassionate. you must act. h.h. the 14th dalai lama