Drew Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Seems like certain sites I goto load VERY slow, like im on 28.8 dialup. :( It's not the sites, and they load fine on my win box.. both running fox 1.0. Not really sure why this is happening, I did the tweaks in the tips and tricks forum and didn't notice a difference. So.. I reinstalled FireFox, this time straight from moz and not using cooker. Same problem.. This also happens in regular Mozilla that came installed with mandrake (I'm running 10.1). any help appreciated.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 You are running 10.1 Community - a cooker snapshot, which is a development release to find bugs and report bugs. Did you report this bug? Or did you search for a bug on http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ How to participate in Mandrake cooker: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=7254 Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frosterrj Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 did you follow the link about turning off the pf 10 (ip V6) in modules.conf? Reboot and no better? Not sure you could tell the diff using a 28.8 dialup though. Time for some DSL? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I have 3mbps cable, pages load LIKE I'm on 28.8 dialup. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 (edited) Just so everything's clear... 1. Slowness is only a problem with Mozilla/Firefox, or with any browser? 2. Is it slow only when loading webpages, or is everything slow - ftp downloads, emails w/attachments...? 4. Same question as above, but how is it in Windows (if you have it)? 3. Your cable connection is DHCP, right? If everything seems slow regardless of OS, try pinging Yahoo or something and post the results. 15-20 hops is plenty. I'd like to see just how fast/slow the hops are. Edited October 18, 2004 by Crashdamage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I should have been more specific 1) It's slow with any browser, but slowER with fox.. still grueling slow. 2) only sites, and random sites.. 3) no problems on my win box 4) yes It's just when browsing certain sites, on my linux box. I thought it might be the sites were running something that was taking fox some time to work out (even though, these are regular sites I visit and have no problems) but.. my own site and this one are fine when loading (invision 2.0) despite one of the sites are running 2.0 and it is dragging slow. example; imdb.com loads slow freshmeat.net loads slow and some other random sites.. doesn't make any sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Ya got me...but that's easy to do. These are all long shots, but you might check: 1. Are you sure it's not actually the webpage *address* you go to, but how large the webpages are - IOW, maybe it really is slow all the time, but only noticeable on large pages. A reach I know, but... 2. Release your DHCP and grab a fresh lease. 3. Security settings, setup of anything like firewalls or Portsentry you have installed and running - something might be getting in the way? 4. CPU usage while loading a slow page. A bug? 5. Ping a slow page address from the Linux box - OS shouldn't matter, TCIP is TCIP, but ya never know, might give a hint. 5. Pretend it's a Winshaft box and reboot. When that fails to fix it, call tech support, get charged major $$$ and be told to reinstall the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Do you have a modem? If so, which sort? Do you have a router, if so, which? When firefox is taking ages, what does it say in the bottom left-hand corner - is it "looking up xyx" or "waiting for xyx" or "connecting to xyx" or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 hmm.. It just says "transferring data from xyz" I'm behind a netgear router, and have a surfboard modem... but my win box is behind the same router/modem, and it has no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Ya got me...but that's easy to do. These are all long shots, but you might check: 1. Are you sure it's not actually the webpage *address* you go to, but how large the webpages are - IOW, maybe it really is slow all the time, but only noticeable on large pages. A reach I know, but... 2. Release your DHCP and grab a fresh lease. 3. Security settings, setup of anything like firewalls or Portsentry you have installed and running - something might be getting in the way? 4. CPU usage while loading a slow page. A bug? 5. Ping a slow page address from the Linux box - OS shouldn't matter, TCIP is TCIP, but ya never know, might give a hint. 5. Pretend it's a Winshaft box and reboot. When that fails to fix it, call tech support, get charged major $$$ and be told to reinstall the OS. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1) its not 2) no dice 3) nothing, I just moved from win about a week ago and dont really have much setup 4) normal usage 5) pings fine 6) I did actually try rebooting the other day but nothing, haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 (edited) I'm behind a netgear router Type? Running which version firmware? Have you downloaded the latest firmware for it (from the netgear site)? Make sure your firewall is turned off (mandrake control centre > security > firewall). Edited October 20, 2004 by Dustpuppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 (edited) RP114 and its fully up to date. if it was my router it would effect my win box as well. A week ago this box was win 2k pro, everything worked fine with my net. I switched to mandrake and certain sites I visit regularly are creepingly slow, for no reason. I thought it may be firefox was having problems with the software they are running (why, I dont know. when it just worked fine in 2000.) but after visiting several sites running the same scripts, etc, I realized that wasn't it. So for some reason, random sites that I regularly visit are creeping slow. It's not my connection its running fine, its not their connection, its not some weird out of place code lagging the page, I dont know what it is. Edited October 20, 2004 by Drew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 RP114 and its fully up to date. if it was my router it would effect my win box as well. Not necessarily - sometimes there's a conflict with Linux (I had all sorts of fun with a different netgear). Just a thought: is this any use? Couple of things you can do if you really want to: 1) Does it work OK on Mandrake 10OE (ie is it a problem with 10.1)? 2) Does it work OK if you connect a single computer to the modem not via the router (ie is it a router or modem conflict)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 (edited) Seems like that sped things up with every site except the ones that are slow. :( I will try connnecting it directly later tonight. Edited October 20, 2004 by Drew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Cool. When you post again, if you do a longer list of sites we might be able to spot a link... Just to get this straight: certain sites are always slow, rather than sometimes they're slow and sometimes not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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