Hi, Thanks for all the responses. I shall try them and reply if anything works. Might take a while though - remote access is often tedious.
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > Can he log in from ubuntu from some other machine? He has only one machine. Harsh Busa wrote: > if you can try to use a live cd of ubuntu or some other linux > based flavor you might be able to find some headway. Yes, I'll try that. Unfortunately, I very strongly suspect it'll work on the Live CD & that won't tell me anything then. :-) Raj Mathur wrote: > See if turning ECN off helps: > You could also play around with /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies Since I've never tried that, it sounds like a good possibility, thanks. :-) Rony wrote: > Has he added a wireless router to his ADSL modem? Nope, just a direct, single ethernet cable to the modem. scrapo wrote: > I do not know what other sites you have tried, but facebook > has an exceptionally high amount of Javascript, ...... Ah but if that was the problem, other browsers should work. And I did clean out cookies & cache to make sure. As I said, the problem is in all installed browsers. And the sites used to work fine till last week. Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
