Dan Everton wrote: <snip> > As for what I mean by locally and externally... we both live on campus at > university and are connected to the residential network. Traffic within > this network is fine and goes at full speed for my friend. The residential > network is connected (through a firewall) to the university network. > Traffic to this network is extremely slow for my friend but normal > ethernet speeds for me. I hope that clears it up. > > Dan
This is just a shot in the dark; perhaps you have two or more DNS servers listed, and they are reversed on his machine vs yours, or there's a typo in the list. I'm thinking that maybe locally your friend's system sees the local net pretty easily, but when it hits remote sites it's looking to a bum DNS server, tries for a while, then hits the secondary but good DNS and finds the site. This doesn't really make sense, because it seems to me (I'm not well-versed in networking) that once the remote machine's IP is found, the transfer would go at normal speeds; it would just be the initial look-up that would cause a delay. But like I said, this is just a shot in the dark.
