[ale] Comcast DNS

[David Ritchie]

> David, thanks for the suggestion. I do remember this ipv6 issue sometime
> back and had set it to true then and at the time I remember a
> performance improvement. I went ahead and checked it again now on the
> possibility that any updates may have reset it, but it is still set to
> true. I'm not 100% sure that it's a DNS issue. When I go to a site I've
> been watching the FF status line, and noticed that sometimes it's been
> taking a long time looking for the named site, other times it takes a
> long time to connect and then go through all of the info transfers. I
> have noticed a performance downgrade going from charter to comcast. When
> I was on charter the sites  came up much quicker, now it seems to pause
> for long periods at each step on the way from entering the url to  fully
> displaying the page.

Scott,
   still, consider using Wireshark to grab traces - network engineers
understand network traces a bit better
than 'its slow'... it help quantify the level of problem you are
having, and in a form that is transportable to
the ISP... Good luck!

-- Dave