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Deathcrow

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 9

[solved] Opera,firefox and wget extremely slow (dial-up style)

Hi there,

this is the first time i've tried Arch Linux (64bit), so bare with me please if i've got something stupidly wrong.

The Problem: Both Opera and Firefox are both extremly slow when opening websites. It "feels" like some kind of DNS problem, because the initial time before anything loads is quite long, but after that it goes quite quickly (though still a bit sluggish).

But here's the catch: Ping and loading websites in links work both perfectly fast.

For example accessing google.com in firefox: 40 seconds until page is loaded. In links about 1 second.

Wget seems to suffer from the same problem:

 wget google.com
--2008-12-22 03:29:23--  http://google.com/
Resolving google.com...

It just takes a lot of time.

Can anyone help me with this?

Last edited by Deathcrow (2008-12-22 12:48:26)

Deathcrow

Member

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 9

Re: [solved] Opera,firefox and wget extremely slow (dial-up style)

Ok, i had a hunch:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv … the_Module

Adding the line to modprobe.conf solved the Opera and Firefox issues.

The behaviour of wget stays the same. Its still very very slow.

Programs that seem to be affected:
-wget
- ssh
- openntpd
- ...

Edit: Alright, the remaining issues were real network issues on my side. They are fixed now.

Last edited by Deathcrow (2008-12-22 12:49:03)