On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:09 +1000, redhat at mckerrs.net wrote: > > First thing that comes to mind is DNS; > > Has your DNS servers changed and you have them hardcoded > in /etc/resolv.conf or similar ? > Nope - no such file. > Are the seamonkey/firefox browsers going through a proxy ? > Nope - direct connect. The problem went away after a few hours - DSL congestion maybe? I got a new router yesterday, a DLink WBR 2310, and it has a slightly different problem - it is slow to connect to all web sites, but once connected, it behaves wonderfully. mhr