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#1 2010-11-08 22:45:07

nitrooreo
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Registered: 2010-06-09
Posts: 15

[Solved] Internet speed problems

Hello. I noticed that my firefox is taking a long time "looking up" sites, even google, so that sites that have to do multiple lookups load extremely slowly. In windows it works fine. I thought it was a dns problem so i tried using opendns 208.67.222.222 in resolv.conf but no change. I am using networkmanager but a tried wicd and had the same problem. I searched around and other users had success with making some changes to resolv.conf or hosts but I don't see what else I can change.

Here is my setup:

rc.conf

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="America/Port_of_Spain"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=(fuse !snd_pcsp)
USELVM="no"
HOSTNAME="inspiron"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0)
ROUTES=(!gateway)
 
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond alsa hal networkmanager samba)

hosts

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    localhost inspiron myhost
# End of file

resolv.conf

# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 192.168.1.1

modprobe

#
# /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
#
# disable autoload of ipv6
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by nitrooreo (2011-05-20 02:56:48)


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#2 2010-11-09 02:13:57

Jodell
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Registered: 2009-10-09
Posts: 285

Re: [Solved] Internet speed problems

Wireless and artheros?

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#3 2010-11-09 04:34:16

brenix
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From: California
Registered: 2008-03-05
Posts: 185

Re: [Solved] Internet speed problems

I just started noticing this after the last ff upgrade I did.. I'm using the firefox-pgo-beta package (4.0b7)

Though DNS lookups only appear to be slow during the first few pages I browse to after starting firefox. After that it works fine..

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#4 2010-11-09 06:53:51

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Registered: 2009-06-04
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Re: [Solved] Internet speed problems

This may be related to this?

Regards

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#5 2010-11-09 13:58:48

kpbotbot
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From: Philippines
Registered: 2010-08-02
Posts: 93
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Re: [Solved] Internet speed problems

I just blacklist ipv6 and set the host part in nsswitch.conf to "hosts: files dns".


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#6 2010-11-09 14:18:48

nitrooreo
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Registered: 2010-06-09
Posts: 15

Re: [Solved] Internet speed problems

My wireless is Broadcom and I experience it while wired as well.

Tried using "options timeout:1" in resolv.conf and "hosts: files dns" in nsswitch but it didnt help.
Do i need to restart networkmanager or anything like that before my edits take effect?

Last edited by nitrooreo (2010-11-09 14:19:16)


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#7 2010-11-10 21:03:45

nitrooreo
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Registered: 2010-06-09
Posts: 15

Re: [Solved] Internet speed problems

Okay, I made an error when testing the nsswitch configuration. According to its man page nsswitch.conf is loaded by a process only once. The process will continue to use this configuration even if the file is changed.

Initially I had "hosts: files wins dns". Using "hosts: files dns wins" seems to have solved the problem. I had to make sure to restart my browser when testing the changes.

Thanks for all the help.


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