I've installed a dual boot setup with the fedora pack 2 and doze XP. The problem is although i really love linux and the KDE interface I am having some serious issues with internet speed. On linux with konqueror and mozilla my speed is like dial up compared with IE on doze and i have a cable modem. I know it shouldnt be this extreme of a performance hit but i'm stuck and i dont know what to do. I use my pc for browsing and office apps. I would really hate to have to settle with windows. Please help. I'm sure its a stupid setting somewhere that i have over looked. I am wondering if it has to do with an MTU setting i read about. Thanks.

This should help...

edit /etc/modprobe.conf and change

alias net-pf-10 ipv6
to
alias net-pf-10 ipv6
install ipv6 /bin/true


or if you don't have that line in there to begin with, just add the two lines above and save. Now reboot, and you should see quite the difference...

<edit>I'm remembering something about a security issue with ipv6, so instead insert ipv4 in the two instances of ipv6 in the code above.

Good luck, let us know if it works...

i'd love to hear if this works -

will it improve speeds even if there's really no noticable speed problem? (my net speed test returns the exact same speeds as i got under windows). i'm wondering because i know in windows, there were several registry tweaks you had to do to get optimum performance from a broadband connection, as by default windows is configured for dial-up speeds. is linux the same way? are there tweaks to optimize the connection for broadband?

nope, this just fixes poor speed performance...and only if the problem was related to it.

Sorry...

WOW! Jeffrey, what a great tip. I wonder why this isn't there by default.

This Linux noob had the same problem as the OP, but adding those two lines made it all better!

Thanks a gazillion!

Can you explain what this changed. I have no idea, but would like to know why it worked.

Sorry, no idea what that is doing. I got it from this thread...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=195465

Just glad it worked, I was going nuts prior to that fix...

There are tweaks for LINUX but it has much, much more tweaks than Windows.

Go to
http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html

You can use Opera. It connects to the server using multple connections. Mozilla can do the same. In Mozilla type about:config in the address bar.

The IPv6 will only work if you have an IPv6 combatible router, modem, and ISP.