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Nexploit

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When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

My problem is that when I open up Firefox or Dillo and type in a website it takes anywhere from 20-30 seconds to load the page. However, if I use links, it's instant. When I pacman -Syu any packages that need updating are downloaded with great speed.

It's worth mentioning that when I use Windows Vista, Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD, Fedora 11 Live CD, etc, all work great as far as internet speed is concerend.

Oh, by the way, I'm using DHCP, and this is a fresh install. (I do have some other packages I have installed. Maybe something I installed is doing something to the speed?)

My card if it helps:

bash-4.0# hwdetect --show-net
NET    : mii ppp_generic r8169 slh

Daemons in rc.conf:

syslog-ng network netfs crond

My /etc/hosts file:

#<ip-address>   <hostname.domain.org>   <hostname>
127.0.0.1 valhalla.domain.org localhost.localdomain localhost valhalla

Let me know if you need more information. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Nexploit

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

You know what? It seems it's a problem with DNS lookup. In Dillo the bottom status bar says "DNS resolving example.com". It hangs there, but once it "resolves" it it takes off just fine. How can I get this fixed?

firecat53

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Try disabling ipV6 per the wiki, and then try changing your nameserver (I do it on my router) to the OpenDNS servers.

Good luck!
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djszapi

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Welcome to the forum Nexploit!

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DNS_with_bind
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Spe … th_dnsmasq

Do you use wifi or wired connection ?

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Nexploit

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Welcome to the forum Nexploit!

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DNS_with_bind
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Spe … th_dnsmasq

Do you use wifi or wired connection ?

Thanks for the welcome!

I use a wired connection.

Statix

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

A quick local fix for DNS is to set your resolvd.conf to opendns. Comment out your old /etc/resolv.conf and replace it with:

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

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Nexploit

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Sweet, that worked! Thanks firecat53, djszapi, and Statix!

Zapadlo

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Sorry to ressurect the thread but I'm having the exact same issue. However when I try to change resolv.conf it reset back to the default address. Advice?

Ashren

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Zapadlo, read this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenDNS#with_dhcpcd

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Zapadlo

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Thank you for your response, however it still appends 'nameserver 192.168.0.1' to resolve.conf and uses that.

xsytry

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Do you have access to panel of the router that has ip number of 192.168.0.1? If so, try changing its configuration to use opendns as its dns server.

Last edited by xsytry (2009-08-25 05:03:49)

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R00KIE

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Thank you for your response, however it still appends 'nameserver 192.168.0.1' to resolve.conf and uses that.

Write the "new" dns server addresses to /etc/resolv.conf.head . That will be put first on resolv.conf and the "new" servers will be used first if available, if not then the dns server found by dhcp will be used instead. This change will stick unlike any direct changes to resolv.conf.

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Zapadlo

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

I did write the nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf.head and they went to the top of the /etc/resolv.conf by dhcpcd still connected to the router. Am I supposed to change router settings instead?

R00KIE

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Re: When using a graphical browser, internet speed is abnormally slow

Then it should be using the first server (208.67.222.222), unless it isn't reachable.
Try `nslookup www.google.com` and check which dns server is being queried, just to make sure it is a dns problem and not something else.
Also try to disable ipv6 as it sometimes causes problems.

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