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otisranson

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Registered: 2008-01-31

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Web browsing incredibly slow, Pacman fast. 64bit Archlinux [SOLVED]

Hey guys here's the situation:

If I'm syncing, installing a package, or updating my system, pacman will download the packages around 500kb a second from a repo close to me (GA Tech).  But if I'm browsing the internet, it's literally close to 56k speeds.  Takes forever to find even google.com then to display the page takes quite some time as well.  I'm using Firefox 3.  What's the deal?  Anyone with this problem?  Never seen this before.  Arch x86_64 os.  Browsing is fine in my 32bit Arch (long gone),  browsing is fine in Windows XP x64.

Downloads are my normal speeds, but it seems like Firefox is what's slowed down for some reason? I'd love to figure this out and actually USE the x64 capabilities of my system.

Thanks guys.

Last edited by otisranson (2009-11-19 18:26:13)

quarkup

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Re: Web browsing incredibly slow, Pacman fast. 64bit Archlinux [SOLVED]

have you tried another browser? maybe you got an extension doing it slow - or maybe you are behind or using a proxy..

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Ashren

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Re: Web browsing incredibly slow, Pacman fast. 64bit Archlinux [SOLVED]

Does your /etc/hosts look correct?

and you could try this:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv … the_Module

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Gen2ly

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Re: Web browsing incredibly slow, Pacman fast. 64bit Archlinux [SOLVED]

What Ashren suggest might help, also I've seen in other forums that ppl had to disable ipv6 in Firefox itself.  There was an issue not too long back about slow resolves, not sure if this applies here, but you can give it a try if nothing else works.  Add to /etc/resolv.conf.head (or create it if it doesn't exist):

options single-request

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axel668

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Re: Web browsing incredibly slow, Pacman fast. 64bit Archlinux [SOLVED]

think IPv6 is the key ... type "about:config" in firefox, search for "ipv6" and change "network.disable.ipv6" to true ... solved it for me at least ^^

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brenix

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Registered: 2008-03-05

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Re: Web browsing incredibly slow, Pacman fast. 64bit Archlinux [SOLVED]

I've had slow browsing before if I tweak the network.http settings in firefox to be too high. That might be of help too..

otisranson

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Registered: 2008-01-31

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Re: Web browsing incredibly slow, Pacman fast. 64bit Archlinux [SOLVED]

think IPv6 is the key ... type "about:config" in firefox, search for "ipv6" and change "network.disable.ipv6" to true ... solved it for me at least ^^

Worked like a charm.  Thanks!  I was getting damn frustrated about this because I would rather use Linux more often than Windows. 

Thanks again!