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Old 16th February 2012
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Thank you, daemonfowl, for posting the actual output of some commands. dmesg couldn't hurt, I guess, though not sure if it will help in this case.

Looking over your output I don't see anything obviously wrong. So to recap, you're using dhclient and it provides you with an IP address of 192.168.1.2 on network 192.168.1.0/24, and the nameserver and defaultroute gateway are 192.168.1.1. Some questions:

Are these the same values you get when using the "OpenBSD machine" ?

Is that the same machine with a dual boot setup?

Are the problems you experience temporary, or are they repeatable over time (i.e., day-to-day reliably unreliable )? One thought here is that wireless drivers, as you are using, are not always perfect, but that doesn't explain why you can reach the Japanese mirror OK. So the question is, is it always this way?

Can you ping the gateway reliably?
# ping 192.168.1.1

Can you resolve hostnames on the Internet, e.g.:
# host google.com

How about pinging arbitrary external sites (google.com, oracle.com, etc.)?

Another possibility is that the US NetBSD servers were having problems at that time. Can you generally browse the web OK? (Well, maybe you have no browser installed ... do you have lynx?)
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