Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:38 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 02/05/2010 06:33 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > This has me scratching my head.
> > 
> > My access to www.rv.net is extremely slow.  With both Konqueror and
> > Firefox.  And yet others say they have good access times.
> > 
> 
> It sucks a big time from Chicago on Comcast.
> 
> $ time curl 'http://www.rv.net'>/dev/null
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
> 100 37271    0 37271    0     0    565      0 --:--:--  0:01:05 --:--:--
>   542
> 
> real	1m5.967s
> user	0m0.014s
> sys	0m0.031s

Hate to burst your bubble, but this looks like a Linux problem.

I get the same speed you do loading rv.net.  But it loads instantly on
my wife's laptop with Vista and IE.  Instantly.  Same network, same
wireless router.

Can you guys test access speeds on your networks with a Windows
computer ?