Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 00:04 +0000, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 8 February 2010 23:41, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> No, but can you test access speed with Firefox and Vista to confirm it
> isn't a Firefox problem.

For me its slow with Konqueror too.  "time curl rv.net > /dev/null" is
browser independent.  

It loads instantly with Firefox on Vista and slow with Firefox on Linux.