On 2018-10-13 20:59, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 05:30:56PM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
>> On 2018-10-13 09:05, Steve Litt wrote:
>> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:21:19 -0500
>> > golinux@??? wrote:
>> >
>> > > Greetings everyone,
>> > >
>> > > Something funny is going on with my networking. It's taking a very
>> > > long time to resolve host IPs across all browsers. It's been
>> > > happening for a week or two but I'm just now getting annoyed enough
>> > > to troubleshoot.
>> >
>> > Me too. I just noticed it about a month ago when I installed my own
>> > Unbound resolver instead of just sending all queries to 8.8.8.8.
>> >
>> > Somebody later in this thread mentions that you shouldn't judge
>> > resolution time by what the browser says. A few tests with dig and
>> > nslookup tell me that with most domains I've never hit before (or which
>> > have expired since I hit them), resolution usually takes less than a
>> > second.
>> >
>> > In my case, I'm temporarily assuming that before installing my own
>> > resolver I never noticed how much of slow browser loading was due to
>> > browser's inefficient dns operations.
>> >
>> > SteveT
>> >
>>
>> I have some food for thought to share but first an update. A
>> technician
>> came out today to check the line and setup. Line was clear and strong.
>> Switched the modem and now getting 256 down. But . . . internet is
>> still
>> very slow to connect as verified by several of you. Once it gets to
>> where
>> it's going, it is really fast. So here's my conclusion . . .
>>
>> I think we are finally seeing the effects of the demise of Net
>> Neutrality.
>> Corporations are raking in a lot of money streaming videos to every
>> imaginable device and the tech sites that I/we frequent are a low
>> priority.
>> So we are being bumped to the slow lane. Aaron Swartz and others saw
>> this
>> coming and it has finally arrived. Will be interesting to see just
>> how bad
>> it's going to get . . .
>
> Have you tried timing connection time to sites that likely *are* in the
> fast lane? Do we even now what they are?
>
> -- hendrik
>

Well, I picked a few names at random. netflix pops up as soon as I hit
enter. Ditto Microsoft, outlook, Apple, twitter, instagram, reddit,
snapchat and facebook. Redhat is in a slower lane as is the Linux
Foundation. Even Ubuntu takes a while. But I don't get out much so
maybe some of you know some popular destinations that I missed.

It is incredibly annoying to be connected to a rather fast pipe yet have
to travel on what feels like 56k connection to get to where I can
benefit from it.

golinux