for a nice primer in terminal I left the rest of the instructions on the page as follows:
Do you have to load a page a second time after it gives you a timeout error?
The problem is that 10.3.6 has stuff in it to make IP6 (Internet Protocal 6) work, and it is not ready for the prime time yet.
SO the best fix (for now) is to disable IP6 altogether. But this is not easy, here are 8 1/2 steps to getting rid of IP6 altogether.
A few years from now, you might want to come back to this page to turn it back on....
1. DON'T do this if you really really need to use your computer today, since it could screw things up in a hurry.
2. Go to terminal and type in
sudo pico /etc/hostconfig
IF you don't like using pico then
sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hostconfig
Will let you use TextEdit instead. When you are done saving, control -z will let you cancel running Textedit.
2.5 Put in your password
3. Scroll down to the line with
IPV6=-yes-
4. Change -yes- to -no-
5. Make sure that it looks like this now
IPV6=-no-
6. Type this in if your using pico
control -X
If you are using TextEdit then the correct keys would be
Apple-S
7. Answer Yes if you think you did it right. Please answer no if you think you changed more than just that one line.
8. Reboot and enjoy!