Yes, USA and thanks for your help.
I downloaded the live Salix beta 2 as I no longer have Salix installed thinking that the same issue may appear and it does. Pinging newyork.com or the ip# gives similar speedy results. Additionally if I go to Google in Firefox via the search box it instantly loads ...

I would say the former but some pages would not load at all but perhaps I wasn't waiting long enough.

After a recent installation which went smoothly, the installed Firefox browser was extremely slow. I installed Midori and Opera to double check and they all were very sluggish to the point of being unusable with extreme delays in page loading. As I dual boot with puppy, I logged out and back in to ...