[DM-MUG] Networking and Slower than Molassas

[Victoria L. Herring]

What could be reasons for it taking 'forever' for a page [more than 
one, really] to load in Safari or Firefox.  I have mchsi at 
7633kbpsdown/482kpbs up and that's [I think] the fastest it goes. 
But I have noticed over the past 2 or so days that loading pages in 
these browsers is taking even more time than usual - at first I 
thought it was the DNS problem & fixed that but loading sites is 
slower than I am used to or remember it being not that long ago.

I did run Activity Monitor and checked the info there  and all seems 
fine - I'm running MacPro OSX.5.4 and latest Safari and Firefox, not 
too many apps open, plenty of RAM...Belkin NWireless Router [tho this 
comptuer is wired, not wireless]

what else should I be checking for?  I have unplugged all connections 
and restarted several times.
[it just took 15 sec. in Firefox to load Apple's site, 20 sec. for 
Amazon - and in both Safari and Firefox I get one of those colored 
spinning beachballs if I try to close out of the browser...
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights, 
Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph. 
515/255-4475;  iChat AV:  victoriaherring at mac.com;  Skype:  vlherring.
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