I am having problems going online.
I am using a DSL connection through a Linksys router.

The router gives my computer an IP address, and I am able to use the router's visual configuration.
When I try to go to an internet site, I immediately get a no connection error. I am using Mozilla, but I can not ping any outside addresses either.

That computer was able to connect to the internet without any problems while it had Windows, Knoppix, and Red Hat 8.0.

When I look at the list of clients on my router, all of the correct IP and MAC addresses appear, but something strange happens in the client name column.
Once, my linux computer showed up with the same client name as my laptop, another time it had something with an equal sign(I copied it but by the time I found a place to paste it I got distracted and put something else in my clipboard).

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

Fedora Core is now on version 6 --- 2 is past obsolete. I would recommend getting a more recent version rather than suffering with the older one.

Looks like you need a default route.

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/route8.html
http://rute.2038bug.com/node28.html....00000000000000
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...nux_Networking
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...efault_Gateway

What is the IP that it's giving you?

Tralce, It gives me 192.168.1.101, which is what it should be giving me. Tried setting a static address too, but same problem.

I understand what teckk is telling me, and I hope I don't have to deal with it in a day and six hours when my FC6 DVD will have downloaded(as suggested by pixellany). I was using FC2 because it came with a really cheap "FC2 for Dummies" book, but I failed to check how Fedora was progressing since I've been out of linux for a while.


For some reason I can't get speeds above ~40 KBps with FTP or BitTorrent. A month or two ago my connection could get around 100 KBps, I'm thinking my ISP put me on the dumb economy plan that costs exactly as much as the faster one.

Also, could anybody give me a good explanation of how BitTorrent works? I haven't been able to find the information I need.

Sometimes my upload speed jumps way above my download speed. I'm not too selfish, but I'd rather have my bandwidth serve me. Does BitTorrent download as fast as it can and then give your extra bandwidth to uploads?

Why the wait for the torrent to start downloading? Does it need to get to the next announce time before it starts or is it just an annoying problem?

Also, is BitTorrent really the way to go? I was using FTP for a little while, my speed stayed at around 40 KBps, but dropped to about 10 KBps. I got fed up and used BitTorrent, which ended up doing the same thing, but it seemed slightly more stable.


Thank you all for your help.

BitTorrent download speeds are based on your uploads. The more you are uploading, the faster your download is. With broadband, you have a separate pipe for uploads.

I did not know that, thank you.

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