I recently upgraded to Suse Linux 11.1 with hopes that my wireless card would finally work. I have a Linksys card with the RT2500 chipset. It works with WEP key protection so long as you don't use KNetworkManager which has a bug that doesn't save the WEP key. I use YAST and its network service to configure the card. It uses DHCP.

Anyway, the card works, but the internet connection is really slow. On a speed test it downloads at about .39 Mbps with a ping of 292 ms. I have a Win XP partition that gets about 30 Mbps and a ping of 42 ms on the same speed test both with Firefox. We use a router and a cable modem to connect to the internet.

I've disabled IPv6 both in Firefox and in YAST as some forums suggest.

I found the DNS names for my ISP from the router and I put DNS1 and DNS2 for the ISP for name servers and I put the routers IP for name server 3 in the configuration panel in YAST.

These "fixes" have been suggested by many forums, but I didn't get any speedup. The linux internet connection is still the same speed.

Is there anything else that I can try? Might it be the Linux driver for the wireless card? I'd really like to get the Linux internet connection to work faster.

I also got a Toshiba Satellite and when I use Suse 11.1 with KDE my internnet connection is extremely slow. I looked for a bug or configuration setting but nothing work, so I change desktop to Gnome and everything change.

Now I am using suse 11.1 with gnome and i can compare the speed to mint or mandriva. I will keep looking for information on this, if I found anything I will post it here.

Though I dont use wireless. I have ran into this problem once before. I have a 16mb connection, and all my pages where slow loading. I decided to try a different DNS server free ones off of the Net to test to see if it was a DNS resolving error.

What did you know, it was my ISP DNS boggin down. Try as a test use OpenDNS. Search in google. Its free ... Also Verizon has a free DNS


( 4.2.2.1/5 is Verizon free DNS and 208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222 is Opendns.com free DNS. )

I tried changing the DNS to the open DNS servers, but that didn't seem to fix the problem.

I think the problem could be with the driver. When I plug the Linux box into the router with the ethernet cable, it works fine with a fast speed.

Hi

If it's not too late (I just came across this thread looking for the answer to another problem) I found that my rt2500 based card on a laptop did not hold the RATE after reboot and I had to run "iwconfig wlan0 RATE 54M" after every boot.

It seems to work OK now on suse 11.2

Chris

Can somebody guide me to add static ip in suse 11.1.I am using lan but failed to add static ip.
Plz guide me .If you have steps to add ststic ip in images it`ll be better.

In Yast Network devices > Network Settings you should see a list of your network cards (pic 1). Select the Network card that you want the static IP assigned, press "Edit".

Pic 2 shows screen you should see, 3 tabs, second tab "address" should be select by default. Press static IP and enter the details. Network mask is normally 255.255.255.0 or /24

Press "Next" then "OK" and your static IP should be saved...

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i`hve found that there is yast2 in suse 11.1.But everybody is showing instructions of setting up static ip in simple yast.
Can somebody guide me about yast2.i`m using lan so i want to setup static ip.

guidance wil be better in image form................

I can't provide an image sorry. After invoking yast2 you see the blue b/ground and a box on left with [software, hardware, system, network devices etc etc]. The 'software' is probably highlighted. Use the arrow keys to go down to 'Network devices'. You'll see the right-hand box change to show further choices. Going to that box and back use the <> keys.

At 'Network devices' you see in r.h. [dsl, isdn, modem, network settings]. key over and choose 'network settings' and hit 'enter' key.

If your card is detected it shows up in the boxes. At the bottom of the main box you see: [add edit delete] with a letter highlighted. That means you can key alt+letter to get the next dialog, in this case you want to edit, so key alt+i. That is, hold down lefthand 'alt' key and press 'i'.

Again this next box will have highlit letters. It defaults to the 'Address' page and you'll see:

() no IP address
() dynamic address
() statically assigned IP

keying alt+t should get you to the static setup, then in the fields below you put in whatever you want. Use the 'tab' key to jump each field.

Then key alt+n for next page which gives the 'Overview' and you'll see your cardname and its new address at top and in the middle a grey box with the card, its mac address and device name - perhaps eth0.

now key alt+o and yast2 should write out the info. I'm unsure if you need to reboot to establish the changed setup.

i installed SUSE 11.1 in my pc. i connect internet through proxy server. my internet connection is also slow!!! in other pc using WI****S its fast. why is it so slow in my PC only!!!