Slow Web Browsing: Konquerer/Mozilla
 

I am using Mdk 10.0CE. Web browsing using both Konquerer and Mozilla (1.6) are painfully slow. It took 2mins 44 secs to download a 1280x1024 wall paper from kde-look.

I am on a 3.5Mbps cable connection. The ftp however is blazing fast. (~900Kbytes/sec). Can somebody help me figure out what the problem is.

Thank you

perhaps too much traffic on the site(s) you surf on? I mean, I've never heard that a web browser could make that big difference between good and bad bandwith that it could be said to be slow..altough mozilla's firefox seems to be somehow faster than the others I've tried this far, I'd say the main reason for slowness is the traffic that goes through the server(s) you use. ftp and http are two different things...

Do you notice this accross all sites? Post a link to site where you get a slow download so we can see.

I've tried both high traffic websites (cnn, nytimes, yahoo....) and low traffic ones (small company names). It seems like website traffic has got no bearing. I've tried visiting "text only" pages. No luck there either. Even Bittorrent works just fine. (FC2-1,2,3,4 came down in less than 2 hours). This has me stumped.

I have had the EXACT same problem. wget and mozilla downloads large file easily enough, but requests for small files on standard pages seem to take forever. I installed a new version of mozilla, same issue. The transfer speeds are rather good, so that makes me think that it is a DNS issue except that nslookup runs at a reasonable speed.

Just like you said, ftp and scp are fast enough, but the initial request still seems to take forever. For instance, it takes about 3 minutes forthe start page for kernel.org to load, but downloading the sources only takes a couple of seconds once it starts...

I fixed my problem
 

Nothing really interesting here: my primary dns server was REALLY slow beacuse I put them in in reverse order (installing Mandrake 10) of how my University recomended (primary switched with secondary). Now it seems to be working great. The best way to tell if this is your problem is to see if you can load an IP address notably faster than the URL for the same location.

Good luck

@%^@$#%.

Ok. Now this is getting to be wierd. I am using DHCP for by cable modem connection. When I go into Mandrake Control Center and look at Manage Connections eth0 shows Static IP. I've changed it to DHCP, but the next time I go back in, I see Static IP again.

But in any case, my browsing speed hasn't changed.

Firefox is really slow on mandrake as well and I have no idea why. I use Firefox on my windows machine right next to it and it runs just fine. I have been waiting for 4 minutes for the wallpaper section to load at kdelook.org and it just says resolving host. Even google takes a long time to load. I have 1.5/768 DSL

Hi. Am having exactly the same problem.

Google takes 40 seconds to load under SuSE, 1 second under windows, but get fine download speeds under linux. Got me stumped.

Sounds like DNS problems - if the symptoms are slow speed to get anything but then page loads at normal speed.

I am having same problem with dial up. everything was fine in 9.1 this all happened when I installed 10. I am a noob but on my computer it acts as if it thinks its not connected and due to this it keeps trying to establish a connection (when picking up the phone I hear the initail connecting tones over and over with no end)

Here's what worked for me..
 

I disabled the onboard wireless NIC.

I fyou have more than one NIC in your system; perhaps Linux is sending HTTP requests through the not connected NIC first?

Re: Here's what worked for me..
 

Good point - I've got a laptop with onboard ethernet and I've been playing around with a wireless PCMCIA card as well. I use DHCP for both and it happens to be the same router so the router IP address is the same. However, unless you configure the cards manually they'll both try and set the default gateway and the DNS nameserver. If I just leave it to fight itself out it depends on which one gets loaded first on booting as to what connection will work if any. If I look at 'route' I canl see that it's set up default gateways on both cards. 'ifdown ethx' or whatever the card is that you want to disable makes the one I want spring into life.

The relevant config files are in /etc/sysconfig/network/ (mine are ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-wlan0) and you can tune the parameters there to decide what they do on boot and what dhcp settings you want - only one card should have DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE="yes". If those files don't have dhcp settings in then there are default files (at least on my system in /etc/sysconfig/network/) called config, dhcp, routes and wireless. Pinch the bits you want out of any of these files and put them into the ifcfg-ethxx file.

Slow connection
 

This might be of interest to you:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#mozillaipv6

It helped me and it can't hurt.

The above link will fix your problem.