Severe timeouts on google, facebook and imap

I've got an old macbook running on OSX 10.4.11 that has recently become almost unusable. It started about a week ago when any and all websites that have a facebook plugin would stall on "connecting to xxx.facebook.com" for about 5 minutes before the page load would complete. Then yesterday evening (June 5) I noticed the same thing start happening when connecting to any google.com site. In addition, my mac mail (which is connected via IMAP to a gmail account) has stopped being able to connect. Other machines (windows) on my network are fine, so it's not a local network issue. Is anyone else seeing anything like this? I noticed that google went IPv6 yestserday, any chance that's related?

BDAqua wrote:
As far as I can tell, IPv6 is unfinished, the whole world isn't in tune with it, & Google just switched to IPv6, so I'm guessing that although IPv6 was enabled before, it wasn't being used.
Yesterday is that day that the whole world was supposed to activate IPv6, but during the test day back in January it was obvious that many sites were not ready and that seems to be true today, as well. The only sites using IPv6 prior to this were those involved in research, so there will be growing pains. Eventually there will be sites that will not be reachable without IPv6, but my guess is that there are very few to none in that category today.
I turned mine on today and found that it slows many sites to a crawl.
If you want to see if yours is on and working see if you can access http://www.ipv6.apple.com/

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