[SOLVED] How to turn Turtle-speed browsing into penguin-speed browsing?? :D

IlIl7 · 10-17-2010, 04:29 AM

Hi everybody

I've just installed Slackware 13.1 in two different laptops for first time. I have some strange internet browsing behaviour in one of the laptops.

I've installed 2 internet browsers(firefox,opera) using the directions from Slackbuilds.org and there is also konqueror pre-installed. Moreover I installed Wicd network manager.

The problem:
I can browse some pages e.g. youtube with firefox very slowly but NEVER facebook.
I can browse almost any page, even facebook, with OPERA but very very slowly.
The same goes with konqueror...
Wicd shows that i am always connected with my WPA wireless network

Laptop details:

Quote:

Toshiba sattellite a100-209
//-----------------------------------------------
Processor Intel Celeron M 370 / 1.5 GHz
Databus-Speed 400 MHz
//-----------------------------------------------
Installed RAM 512 MB
Technology DDR2 SDRAM - 533 MHz
//-----------------------------------------------
Hard disk 80 GB - 5400 rpm
//-----------------------------------------------
Optical Drive DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM
//-----------------------------------------------
Display-Type 15.4" TFT
Max. resolution 1280 x 800 ( WXGA )
//-----------------------------------------------
Graphic Card ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
Shared Memory 128 MB
//-----------------------------------------------
Soundcard Realtek ALC861

After having looked some other posts i think the folowing should matter..

:

Quote:

1) resolv.conf:
domain siemens
nameserver 192.168.1.1
2) nsswitch.conf-sis:
....
hosts: files nisplus nis dns
....
(that is the only line that DNS appears)
3) In firefox using about:config i already changed the following:
Set “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers” to “0“
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 10.
Set “network.dns.disableIPv6” to “true”
4) In Wicd
checked is only the "use encryption" box and it appears to be connected with SIEMENS-43D40C at 50%(192.168.1.2)
5) named.conf

Quote:

options {
directory "/var/named";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
};

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "caching-example/named.root";
};

zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "caching-example/localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "caching-example/named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

6) when i do dig www.facebook.com in terminal i get:

Quote:

; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P4 <<>> facebook.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62224
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;facebook.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
facebook.com. 3600 IN A 69.63.181.12
facebook.com. 3600 IN A 69.63.189.16
facebook.com. 3600 IN A 69.63.189.11

;; Query time: 27 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Oct 17 12:16:13 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 78

Hopefully sbdy shows me how to become a

in browsing as well. Thanks in advance

jdkaye · 10-17-2010, 07:57 AM

I notice that you are using your ISP's nameserver (192.168.1.1 indicates this). You could try changing this to a public DNS server. You can find a couple of them here. That may speed things up (or it may not).
ciao,
jdk

IlIl7 · 10-17-2010, 12:30 PM

@jdkaye

Should i make these changes of dns in resolve.conf??? or somewhere else?

P.S. Please do not forget i m new in linux :d

Kyle Lionheart · 10-17-2010, 12:51 PM

In resolve.conf, yes.
Or, as 192.168.1.1 is probably your router's IP, you may want to change the DNS there to use the same ones everywhere in your network, and keep the router as nameserver on the PCs.

Also, if simply changing DNS doesn't work...are there other wireless networks in your area? You might want to try changing the wi-fi channel you are using in that case(on your router)

IlIl7 · 10-17-2010, 03:10 PM

so i changed resolv.conf from:

Quote:

domain siemens
nameserver 192.168.1.1

to:

Quote:

nameserver 69.111.95.100
nameserver 63.251.62.33

using the page http://www.dnsserverlist.org/ as suggested above by @jdkaye.
However I still have very slow internet browsing and no facebook with any of the 3 browsers..

@Kyle Lionheart
I cannot change the WIFI channel because the router belongs to the house owner who lives above and doenst want to change anything....

The laptop belongs to my girlfriend and she looses her patient....
so please help to keep

jdkaye · 10-17-2010, 11:49 PM

You can go to a website and test the speed of your connection and see if that is the problem. Here is one you can try. There are many others.
ciao,
jdk

mesiol · 10-18-2010, 12:20 AM

Hi,

first you should change the nsswitch.conf. The line

Code:

 hosts: files nisplus nis dns

should in you setup only contain

Code:

hosts: files dns

if there is no nisplus/nis service available.

Than change your dns as mentioned by IlIl7 to an official dns and not to your routers ip. My experience with some routers is, that they require up to 10 times longer for a dns result that a direct query to an official dns.

IlIl7 · 10-18-2010, 05:21 AM

hi all again
tried everything u suggested but unfortunatelly nothing worked

my girlfriend lost her patience....
so this laptops just goes back to windows..

thanks everybody anyway