Slow Internet Speed

Swift&Smart · 01-16-2007, 02:50 AM

Hello,everyone.

I have just re-installed my slackware 11 due to some reasons.However,after installation,the internet speed is very slow compared with Windows(Multi-OS on my laptop).

I have no idea why it's slow on Slackware or even FreeBSD.I can't figure out.Even I want to browse using firefox,it loads slowly!Do you guys have any suggestions?Please feel free to drop me a line.

/y0shi · 01-16-2007, 05:52 AM

hi, this is a little vage, what do you mean?
you re-installed slackware 11, and before that slackware 11 was faster?
how do you connect to the internet? dsl? what kind of conectionspeed?
did you downloaded some huge data in order to check you downloadspeed?

Swift&Smart · 01-16-2007, 06:06 AM

/y0shi,thanks for your reply.

I connect to the internet with adsl.I can't tell you the connection speed because I am not at home right now.However,it is slow as hell!I don't even have to download a huge file because just browsing website is slow...

Thanks for your help.

b0nd · 01-16-2007, 07:47 AM

hi,
check out the DNS server you have specified.

regards

Randux · 01-16-2007, 06:49 PM

I had the same problem and I never found out the cause of it. I suspect the ISP was throttling non-Winbloze endpoints.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=483494

After a few months and a few phone calls to the ISP and the cable provider the problem mysteriously disappeared.

davidsrsb · 01-16-2007, 09:31 PM

Install Wireshark on both OSs and compare the traffic to the same website

Probably there is a difference in one of the tcpip parameters like MTU or window size.

It is quite hard for the ISP to favour one OS, though they may favour one browser.

euler13 · 01-16-2007, 09:31 PM

may the it is caused by last month earthquake in Taiwan, download online files in my slackware is quite slow. it wasn't the case before that earthquake.

Swift&Smart · 01-17-2007, 12:35 AM

euler13 and all other friends,thanks for all the reply.

I think the earthquake thing is not that serious.Because I can't figure out why there are speed differences between Windows & *NIX.If the earthquake affects the connection,then why I have no speed problem with Windows?

However,I do discover that when I issued traceroute www.google.com,there are some hops which is not responsive or very slow,say like spending 3xx ms to route to that hops.I have to do the same thing on Windows to see whether they are the same on speed and other things.

davidsrsb,I will post the result after I installed that program.Thanks.