2Wire WiFi Problems

This page follows many links before displaying the “5-Day Forecast”. With either Safari 4β or WebKit r41379 and my AT&T WiFi DSL service (with a 2Wire modem) it usually takes a minute or more for that information to be displayed. Most pages of the NY Times are also slow, but not quite so bad. The trouble is more ‘reliable’ with weather. I have 3 Mb/s download bandwidth and single large files arrive reliably at about 2.6 Mb/s.

“5-Day Forecast” takes about 5 sec to display when I use either:

Safari 4β or WebKit r41379 with my neighbor's WiFi DSL Speakeasy service or
Firefox 3.0.5 with my own DSL service.

My neighbor's Speakeasy service, like my own, uses AT&T's ‘last mile’ ATM.

To run the tests I:

Select the DSL service,
Launch the browser,
Empty Cache,
Go to http://cap-lore.com/Weather.html
Click on 2nd link.
Count the time until I see “5-Day Forecast”.