New Java slowed my safari?

[ruslev]

Help. I have a G4 powerbook and after the most recent upgrade releases last week, my safari and my firefox are no longer loading with any speed. I am sitting at my screen with a "contacting x" message for about 8 seconds before the screens begin to load. It could load a page in 1 minute or so?
I have had some minor relief shutting off the plug-ins and java, but nothing close to any speed. My wife's PC is using our wireless network and her speeds were fine.
Any suggestions?

 

[Amdahl]

Sounds like the usual 'my Internet is slow in OS X' stuff. There have been plenty of threads on here about.

 

[Trip.Tucker]

Was it decaffeinated?

 

[ruslev]

this is the first time I have ever had this slowness.