Slow download speeds - Can I change this?
 

Greetings!

I am a new Linux user and I am pleased to find a warm, friendly board on Linux.

I am wondering why my computer downloads much slower then it should with Linux vs when I had Winblows 2000 on it.

I ran a speed test on Toast.net on my other WinXP machine and then on the SuSE 10.0 Linux box. I did this 3 times with the results being close each time.

Download results:

Downloading 1,396,595 bytes

SuSE 10.0 Box = 416.068 Sec.
WinXP Box = 3.281 Sec.

Uploading results:

Uploading 1,059,140 bytes

SuSE 10.0 Box = 22 Sec.
WinXP Box = 22 Sec.

The WinXP Box is a newer computer but when I had Win 2000 on the SuSE 10.0 Box they would clock very close to the same transfer rates.

I have a 4MB cable internet service from Comcast and I would like both boxes to have close to the same transfer rates so I can give SuSE a fair shake and try and make the switch to Linux for good :) Thanks in advance!

Go here http://www.dslreports.com/tools Run the Tweak test and follow instructions it should give some info on tweaks for linux.

Regards
Sharke

Thanks for the great site link. I try to run the tweak test and after about 1 min the transfer light stops blinking but it does not say finished. I let it run for one hour and it still was not done so I think that it must time out but not show an error.

Any other ideas?

Slow Browsing
 

You are suffering from the slow browsing problem. There
are various cures for this.
1. Turn off support for IPv6
2. Enter your ISPs nameserver IP addresses in
/etc/resolve.conf rather than using DHCP to do it.
3. Update the software on your router to the latest
version.
For me either 1. or 3. worked 2 did not. For other people
2 works.