On 05/18/2012 03:47 PM, JD wrote: > I am indeed pointing my resolv.conf to the 2 google > nameservers. > You're probably right about our home network. > I think the router has a very low bandwidth (hardware wise), > probably because it doubles up as the decoder for the TV > contents being viewed on 2 to 3 different TV's in the house. > TV signals come directly to the router on the coax, and then > are sent back on the coax to the 3 TV sets. > We're stuck with what we have. Of course you can always use a tool such as dig to see what kind of response times you are getting. for example.... [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dig @8.8.8.8 www.ibm.com ; <<>> DiG 9.8.2-RedHat-9.8.2-1.fc16 <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.ibm.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13263 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.ibm.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.ibm.com. 452 IN CNAME www.ibm.com.cs186.net. www.ibm.com.cs186.net. 34 IN A 129.42.60.216 ;; Query time: 21 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Fri May 18 16:17:54 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 80 Shows the query took 21 milliseconds -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org