Ultra slow browsing
 

Hello everyone!

I have just installed Slackware 10 with kde. For web browsing i use Firefox 1.0.4. I access the internet using dialup with a 56K external modem.

Does anybody have a clue why my browsing speed is a lot slower in Slackware than my browsing speed in windows??? I tried downloading a simple txt file and firefox's download manager showed me the lightning fast speed of 0.9Kbps!

Newbie in distress! Please reply!

what are you using to connect to the net with?

Are you behind a Firewall?

in my experience, a slow browsing experience is often a symptom of trouble resolving domain names into ip addresses. here's a simple experiment:

open a terminal like xterm. first ping a normal address like this:

ping www.google.com

then ping google's ip address (if i'm not mistaken the previous ping should list the ip address you're pinging) like this:

ping 72.220.58.100

if you don't know google's ip, you can look it up with dig www.google.com i believe. so anyway, see if there's a difference in how long the pings take.

Is it your browsing that is slow or only downloading files? The built in download manager in Firefox sucks. Get something like the Flashgot extension and use a third party download manager like Kget.

Well, let's see now...

kppp

Not that i know of! I just did a full slackware install and here i am...

There isn't an important difference between the 2 pings.


Both (unfortunately).



Did anyone make something out of all this????

I really don't get it why i serf so slow...

Did you read your e-Mail from Pat after installing Slack?
mail

It states that you need to enable /etc/rc.d/rc.serial in /etc/rc.d/rc.S,
and edit /etc/serial.conf ...

Otherwise you're connecting at 9600.


Cheers,
Tink

YES! THAT WAS IT!

MANY MANY THANX TO TINKSTER!!!

Finally, i can browse at full speed !! (well 56K isn't that fast...)

Also, many thanx to craigevil, mcd, ctkroeker and ingvildr for their offers for help!