Why is my Internet connection faster with Linux/Mozilla

[SilasSoule]

Than with exploerer? Shit. I'm surfing with IE 6.xx in WIN2k and every damn site is slow, no page loads entirely, and my zonealert tells me tha t nothing is going in or out after the initial load of the page.

I come back to my Red Hat Linux bootup on the the same machine and ISP and everything loads fast and complete.

[starroute]

1. Nothing to do with the connection -- it's the browser

How fast things load, how fast things get rendered -- I don't pretend to understand it, but it has everything to do with the browser. I was amazed at how much faster Mozilla was than Netscape, and now I'm even more amazed at how much faster Firefox 0.8 is than Firebird 0.7