On Monday 13 November 2006 00:50, Sven Jacobs wrote: > In contrary to my first statement I noticed yesterday that browsing on > my other computer (also OpenSuSE 10.1) is slow, too.
Any Skype or bit torrent clients running? I find that the Linux version of Skype will take down my Netgear router if I am using the wireless portion. Hardwired it works fine. If you do a netstat -anp you will see a HUGE amount of sockets running for a bit torrent client or skype or Edonkey. Those may exceed the capabilities of small routers. Also I have found that NOT using the DNS server in the routers that have them often is faster. Some routers just pass that through anyway, but others try to run a slim version of bind or some such. If i suspect it is slow DNS, I edit my /etc/resolv.conf and reverse the two server entries so that I am using my ISPs secondary DNS server. I often find that is faster as it has less work to do unless and until the primary fails. I've also seen page requests just sit there and grind, but upon clicking Stop and Re-Request (clicking the link again) it goes instantly. However, my experiences have been equally bad with windows and linux. Firefox or Mozilla on both platforms. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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