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Internet Painfully slow in Fedora

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I'm still on my first day of using Fedora and the internet is painfully slow. I ran a test on Speedtest.net and got almost identical speeds in Fedora and Mint. However, Fedora takes forever to load webpages and install software from Kpackagekit. I had this problem in openSUSe and disabling IPV6 fixed it but I can't find that option in Fedora. I'm using KDE 4 by the way. I was reading in this thread that it might be good to have dnsmasq running but when checked it wasn't. I don't get that running either. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.:) Thanks Mark (HowTos)

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Submitted by dalinux on 07/17/2009 – Made popular on 07/17/2009

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