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hello,
flurin & derek: thanks for the information. I'll definitely try the pdns-recursor workaround. the firefox workaround didn't work for me, unfortunately. but i'll try changing the dns and forcing AI_ADDRCONFIG. Lets see what happens.
As for windows 7, I took out my installation CDs for Windows Vista that came with my Lenovo T400. Installation, with all the crap customizations, took about 2 hours? (I just phased out and started playing GTA4 after a certain point). After that the goddamn updates took literally 12 hours (with all the restarts and my 2 MB shared connection). I ended up with a system that booted up in a minute, with a fingerprint reader that didnt work and reintroduced me to the general slowness that drove me to linux in the first place. So now I'm sitting here with lucid back on and checking proposed updates. I have horrible internet, but atleast I don't want to throw my laptop out the window.
By the way, I had a Live CD of openSuse 11.2 lying around (KDE) and I can confirm that I had no issues whatsoever with my internet when I installed that on my system as was the case with Jaunty. Fedora 13 and the latest PCLinuxOS, however, suffer from the same issue. Additionally, the problem is curiously confined only to my internet connection at home and not at work. I initially had the same router (Linksys WRT54G) at home and at work. I changed the one at home thinking that it may have been a router problem and got a DLink Wireless N router instead. That did not work. I have the same ISP at home and work but different modems: a ZyXEL P-600 at work and an Alcatel SpeedTouch Home at home. The modem at home is considerably older then the one at work. Additionally, I have also found that if the internet on my Lucid box is acting up at home, it slows down the internet for everyone else connected to the router. So the lucid lynx is not only managing to annoy me but also other windows users (my wife) as well!
I hope that these workarounds work - Lucid is actually the best OS I've used in a very long time.