Low internet speed

[Rich Burroughs]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
  > If even changing to a different ethernet device does not improve things,
> there must be something else causing the trouble. To be sure you didn't
> broke the loopback resolving, what's the content of your /etc/hosts
> file?
> 
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
> 
> It _must_ contain this line.

You might also check and make sure you can contact the name servers in 
/etc/resolv.conf. I don't think that's the problem, based on your 
description, but it can't hurt to check. You mentioned moving the box - 
if the name servers were not being assigned with DHCP and the old ones 
are still there, it's possible you can't access them from home.

You could try to do lookups manually using the "host" command.


Rich