A little looking shows me that many people have had this kind of problem, but I've seen no solution yet.
I just had FiOS installed, and I'm using their MI424-WR Wireless Router and dhclient and able to connect with my D-link card and atheros driver under Mandriva 2007.1 and an Athlon-64 +3800.
I pretty much left the router settings alone, except for changing the password and using WPA encryption. At one point, I reset the router, and used WEP, but the problem persisted.
Downloading is intermittently extremely slow, while at the same time, the the win2k machine which has it's ethernet card cabled to the router is able to download pages as fast as one could wish. The first thing I did was to disable IPv6 on Firefox; it helped a little, but things are still slow. It seems like the DNS resolution is taking forever (and I hate spending my life waiting for double-click).
My /etc/resolve.conf is
Code:
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 192.168.1.1
search home
Pinging google shows me that there are many packets being dropped
Code:
PING google.com (64.233.187.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=28.6 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=241 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=241 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=241 time=29.5 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=7 ttl=241 time=29.3 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=10 ttl=241 time=29.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=11 ttl=241 time=28.9 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=12 ttl=241 time=27.2 ms
--- google.com ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 9 received, 25% packet loss, time 27184ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.296/28.529/29.740/0.880 ms
(when I pinged slashdot, I got 100% packet drop. 50% is not uncommon).
I've seen some posts saying that the /etc/resolv.conf file has to be modified, but I see that it's overridden.
There's nothing that seems amiss in /var/log/messages, and I am at a loss for configuring dhclient.
Any clue brick would be appreciated.
