Internet Slowwwww

mlmmike · 10-08-2004, 08:53 PM

Hi All..Wonder if anyone can help ?
I have installed Mandrake community 10.1. It all loads fine and everything works..the problem is internet speed.
I have a 1.5 MB DSL Connection. I give the machine a static I.P. address..say 192.168.1.30 Then give the gateway (as my router) 192.168.1.1 & then DNS the same (192.168.1.1). It all works and it does have internet access but what takes 1 second to load on any other computer take around 30 seconds to load on this 1.
I have installed & tried several other distro's and they all work perfect (with the same settings), but to be honest I prefer Mandrake. I have reinstalled several times and every time exactly the same issue.
The new remote desktop is like "lightning", even accross the net...So it definetly has quick access. I have look on Google and there seams to be other people with similar issues, but nothing that explains why.
Anyone have any idea's ???

AltF4 · 10-08-2004, 09:47 PM

try disabling IPV6 - probably Mozilla doesn't like it

mlmmike · 10-08-2004, 09:50 PM

Thanks I will give that a try...Interesting though this problem does not exist with any other disro's

opjose · 10-09-2004, 03:32 AM

Ironically the SAME problem exists in WinBlows XP.

This caught me by surprise after one of the WinBlows Updates added IPV6.

My machine's startup time went from 15 SECONDS to 4-6 minutes from the time the WinBlows logo appears to the time an application will actually launch.

It turns out that IPV6 was looking for a non-existant DHCP server and holding up anything launched from the start menu.

Go figure...

mlmmike · 10-09-2004, 06:12 AM

How do I disable this IPV6...Is this just a service ????

Dis able that service ?

Because it not only exists in motzilla but also Konqueror

mlmmike · 10-09-2004, 07:43 AM

O.K. I have reinstalled mandrake again....

same problem ....

any ideas how I disable this ?

mlmmike · 10-09-2004, 08:15 AM

Thanks very much for this info...

I looked under google & found how to disable & also found out what it does...

Now internet is fast again...

Thanks for your assistance...

opjose · 10-09-2004, 08:55 AM

Great!

AltF4 · 10-09-2004, 08:24 PM

Please post your solution/links/findings here for others having the same problem,
thanks

mlmmike · 10-09-2004, 08:49 PM

Good point...my pleasure...O.K. Here is what you have to do.

Apparently IPv6 causes some problems with DNS.

winroute doesn't like it, but ICS doesn't have a care in the world!

So, If you want to use winroute pro 2.52 (i think that's the version) and a linux mandrake client 10.0 or above, you will have to disable ipv6

i found easy instructions on line...

you need to be root
edit the file:
/etc/modprobe.conf

add the following two lines:
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

save, and restart the computer.

Then it works viola !