[clue-tech] intermittent connection problems

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:08:12 +0000
Jason S. Friedman wrote:

> I run Ubuntu 9.04 on x64-64.
> 
> Yesterday the problems returned.  This time, I connected my old Windows 
> XP machine to the modem and, voila, I was able to connect to 
> microsoft.com and frii.com via my browser.

Modem?

Uh, tell us what you're using with Ubuntu. Dialup?

I use Qwest, and I haven't encountered any such problems.

IIRC, a friend of mine was having something sounding like what you're
experiencing, and the solution was to disable IPV6.

jed