Try using a non-FC based livecd and see what kind of internet performance you get.

Good idea, Got Knoppix 3.9 ready to go.

BTW, in the Network settings, should I have a certain domain name for my PC, and what DNS servers should i have set? if that will help any

DNS servers should either be your router or the DNS servers provided by your ISP. Some routers have very poor caching DNS servers so it can help to go upstream.

I have just tried with Knoppix, it automatically manages to connect to network properly (ie I can go to 192.168.1.1 Fine) but exactly the same as FC.
i can ping google.com and get results
i can ping msn.com and get no returns whatsoever

and visiting google.com gets me nowhere.

in Network settings, i got 192.168.1.1 set up as Primary DNS.
Also, in the router, it is set for Auto Discovery DNS Server, but in the next box for where you can manually specify them its got 139.175.55.224, Primary only.

i hope this information is useful

has anybody not ever had this problem before?

by the way, both PCs are using the Intel Pro 100+ PCI Network card

My guess would be that you have a crappy router. Sorry. Now, we'll try to work around. Depending on your ISP, find out one of their nameservers, and replace the 192.168.1.1 in /etc/resolv.conf with the IP of that nameserver.

also, try plugging the pc into the internet directly, bypassing the router

The D-Link DSL-G604T Wireless ADSL Router . . . System Requirements: Computers with Windows, Mac or Linux Based Operation Systems with Installed Ethernet Adapter.

The router works fine, im using it to access the internet from a Windows XP computer, and resorting to windows on the linux box is the last thing I want to do.

Bypassing the router is not really an option, as I do not have a seperate ADSL modem, the ADSL Router is all I got.

I can access the router control panel fine from Linux (typing in 192.168.1.1 in firefox browser) and mess about there. Its just accessing websites that dont work. Is there a setting that I am overlooking?

Now to use the nameserver, I'll phone them up, well its out of hours now, I'll send an email.

I really do appreciate your help. I really do not want to give up on this and resort back to Windows. I want to be proud of a fully working linux system

No problem. If you bear with us, we'll get you to a fully working system.

Im just glad your bearing with me and my seemingly uncurable problem

anyways, i tried doing replacing 192.168.1.1 in resolv.conf with 139.175.55.224 but no luck. infact, pinging that IP address from windows brings me no results, a dead IP address.

however, under Management IP tab in the Router Control Panel, there is:
IP address : 192.168.1.1
NetMask : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 62.249.255.133
Hostname: mygateway
Domainname: ar7

I tried using 62.249.255.133 in resolv.conf also, but it dont work. The number is pingable however.
I only get the most results when the nameserver in resolv.conf is 192.168.1.1.
Thing is, pinging msn.com and others, they ping the proper IP address, and for msn.com i get the proper hostname, just no responses. with google.com i do get responses, I just can not seem to visit it with firefox.

Try placing a different nameserver, such as one of the public DNS servers at granitecanyon.com in your resolv.conf. For your convenience, ns1.granitecanyon.com is 205.166.226.38.

Major Breakthrough!

It is somthing to do with IPv6
In firefox, you go to about:config and find network.http.disableIPv6 and set to True.

I can visit websites now! Including www.msn.com

But I musn't celebrate just yet.
Pinging msn.com still bears no fruit. Same with logging into IM programs.

I found this out by doing a search on my DSL-G604T router and linux and found this:
http://www.expansys.be/forumthread.a...551&thread=532

People there have had identical problems
So that leave me with disabling IPv6 in Fedore Core 4. If someone can point me in the right direction, that will be very much appreciated.

Matir, I will now go downstairs and try out your suggestion, see if that works.

Type 'lsmod' and see if ipv6 is listed. If so, try 'rmmod ipv6' and see if that improves things any. Also try what I mentioned earlier.

I tried using your nameserver, but I get far better performance using 192.168.1.1
Infact, I could not even view linuxquestions.org using 205.166.226.38, maybe I need to re-enable IPv6 in Firefox for that?

IPv6 is listed when doing lsmod, however when using rmmod ipv6 i get the message "ERROR: Module ipv6 is in use"

I shall try from a fresh reboot.

Yeah, make sure ipv6 is not in your /etc/modules.autoload.d or similar configuration.

Also, try maybe even deleting ipv6.ko (ipv6.o on 2.4) and then rebooting. (It would be somewhere in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/)

Im havin some difficulties locating modules.autoload.d in my /etc/ folder. Can not seem to find anything of a similar name. Im using Fedora Core 4.
Can not seem to find ipv6.ko in my lib/modules/[mykernel-FC4-etcetc]/ anywhere in here.

What I did manage to find is this:
/sys/module/ipv6/ with refcnt as file and sections as folder. Is it safe to delete this? Or renaming it?

I tried to use rmmod ipv6 -f, but it wont work, says Resource temporarily unavailable, but from what I have gathered, you must compile something in the kernel to allow this.

I am getting sooooo close to getting my internet on track.

Good news is, I can access this site on the same computer now No more running up and down the stairs