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djh-world
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Location: Nottingham, UK
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 Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:56 pm Post subject: Problems with internet browsing speed |
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Hello there,
I'm connected to the internet through broadband (600kbps) and recently I've been experiancing a strange problem with internet browsing speeds being exceptionally slow compared to what they used to be, this is evident on sites such as Hotmail and image-heavy websites.
At first I thought this was NTL's (my ISP) fault, but then it occured to me that I only experience this "slowness" on internet browsing, downloading is fine, all of my download's seemed to max out on 70kbps.
After having a search on the forums, I have seen that many people have experienced the same problem with internet browsing, and they reccomended that they should try this: -
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# ifconfig eth0 mtu 1472
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It was a joy to find out this worked pretty smoothly and now accessing sites was a joy, until I restarted the machine, then it was back to square one, browsing was becoming slow again, until I had to go through the process of typing in the above command again to get it working.
Is there anyway of setting the "mtu" on startup? |
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nobspangle
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Location: Manchester, UK
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| If you are using a static IP you can add the mtu command in /etc/conf.d/net if you use a dynamic IP then stick the mtu command in local.start so that it is run at boot or create your own init.d script and add it to startup with rc-update |
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djh-world
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| nobspangle wrote: | | If you are using a static IP you can add the mtu command in /etc/conf.d/net if you use a dynamic IP then stick the mtu command in local.start so that it is run at boot or create your own init.d script and add it to startup with rc-update |
The thing is, I don't know if I'm using a static IP, I'm not a very clued up on this whole internet thing.
I use a router if that counts? My IP for that is just 192.168.1.101 |
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amasidlover
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Location: Manchester, UK
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| You could just add it to /etc/conf.d/local.start , then make sure that local is enabled as a service. |
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bluedevils
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Joined: 21 Jul 2004
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Location: Vancouver BC -> NYC, NY
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| If you didn't have to set the IP, then you are most likely dhcp. You're /etc/conf.d/net should show your settings. |
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kpack
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It could be a DNS problem.
If you have bind tools installed, trying resolving something from the command line:
host google.com
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dig google.com
If that takes a long time, then it may be that your primary name server is down, and all dns searches are timing out on the primary server before working on the backup server. |
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