tetsujin29 Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 I am running mandriva 2008 on an intel celeron 2.0gz processor with 1GB RAM. I have Cox cable internet which should have dl speed of 10mbps and ul speed of 2mbps. However loading webpages is much slower than on my windows vista pentium III laptop(!!). I already disabled ivp6 and tried Opera,Switchfox as alternatives to firefox, but no avail. So I have come to the conclusion that maybe the connection itself is slow as oppose to a problem with the web browsers. Here is the output from ifconfig -eth0: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:2B:4D:D7:CD inet addr:72.195.139.201 Bcast:72.195.139.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:53502 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:15228656 (14.5 MiB) TX bytes:2404471 (2.2 MiB) Interrupt:20 Base address:0xe000 Any help would be greatly appreciated. The stuttering during web-browsing is almost unbearable and it is a shame because I really like mandriva thus far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Go to: http://www.speedtest.net and see how the speed of your connection fares up here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xx86 Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 I too had slow internet, found that in the resolv.conf if you change the line that says search www.wwww.net to the IP of the www.wwww.net the internet speeds up and also goes for internet connection sharing. sample 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 192.168.1.254 nameserver 192.168.2.2 #search gateway.2wire.net search 192.168.1.254 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Or remove the search line altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsujin29 Posted September 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 In my resolv.conf, I have 3 name-servers, should I add 3 search lines? what does "search" do? nameserver 68.105.28.12 nameserver 68.105.29.12 nameserver 68.105.28.11 SHould I add 3 lines of "search"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 No, you don't need search at all really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsujin29 Posted September 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 I find that resolv.conf becomes over-written after I change it so that the search lines are uncommented again. In fact, in resolv.conf it says "DO NOT EDIT BY HAND, CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 This is because of the resolvconf service, which to me is a complete waste of time. You can disable this: su (enter root password when prompted) chkconfig resolvconf off assuming of course the service is called resolvconf, which I think it is. Am not at my Mandriva machine to check exactly, but I'm pretty sure it is. I don't see any benefit that this resolvconf package does except cause problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Yes, it's called resolvconf. I'll also add that as an alternative, you can use the gui: go to MCC > System > Manage system services. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 BTW, just thought I better add I don't hate the gui, just I can never remember it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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