I had my desktop running ubuntu 10.10 at my sisters house hooked up to a router sharing internet with her boyfriend never had a problem with it there I moved into my own apartment this week plugged the cable modem directly into the broadcom ethernet card and couldn't get an ip or anything it wouldnt connect period so i ended up hooking it up usb which works but only at speeds of 5-7mbit when i have 15mbit connection so i put another ethernet card in hoping it was just problem with the card and tried it that worked i got a connection but it was incredibly slow like getting maybe 5k a second so i open network tools in administration menu and start pinging google while i'm waiting on a bandwidth test to complete and it takes off getting like 20mbit keeps that connection for a while then out of nowhere just drops to almost nothing again for a few minutes then falls off completely so i restart and it does the exact same thing starts off slow then something clicks and it works great for 5 min then nothing any ideas?

I am running into the same problems but don't run ubuntu 10.10 but I have been having connection problems with connection dropping out. Talked to one of my IP techs (small town)in the bar.

Found out the cold snap lately is playing hell on IP provider server wiring. He told me connection dropping and slow speed was due to cold snap. So they are replacing old wire with new wiring. Hence the erratic connections this winter. So test your sisters connection with your good personal linux working gear to rule that out first.

ya i tested it with my buddies netbook which is also running ubuntu 10.10 and it works great no problems at all

Then post output of

and sudo

and sudo


so people know what you are dealing with.

dillon@dillon-desktop:~$ sudo lspci -knn
[sudo] password for dillon:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation E7525 Memory Controller Hub [8086:359e] (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel modules: e752x_edac
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A [8086:3595] (rev 0c)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A1 [8086:3596] (rev 0c)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520 PCI Express Port B [8086:3597] (rev 0c)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24d2] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24d4] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24d7] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:24de] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24dd] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev c2)
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24d0] (rev 02)
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller [8086:24db] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller [8086:24d1] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24d5] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f2]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3
02:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] [10b7:9050]
Kernel driver in use: 3c59x
Kernel modules: 3c59x
40:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] [10de:0421] (rev a1)
Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:c793]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia-173, nvidia-current, nouveau, nvidiafb





dillon@dillon-desktop:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:60:ed:a4:99
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:16

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:11:28:d5:64
inet addr:76.84.3.30 Bcast:76.84.31.255 Mask:255.255.224.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:11ff:fe28:d564/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22617258 errors:25854 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:25854
TX packets:20713220 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2706678719 (2.7 GB) TX bytes:3884676375 (3.8 GB)

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:d5:3a:34
inet6 addr: fe80::260:97ff:fed5:3a34/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1450 Metric:1
RX packets:414747 errors:92 dropped:0 overruns:231 frame:92
TX packets:279861 errors:24 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:444750121 (444.7 MB) TX bytes:41572843 (41.5 MB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x4000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:361227 (361.2 KB) TX bytes:361227 (361.2 KB)

vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)



dillon@dillon-desktop:~$ uname -r
2.6.35-24-generic

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This is the surviving duplicate of:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=858086
which was closed.

There is one answer there, & OP's reply to it. HTH.