slow surfing broadband under FC5

[Robin Laing]

Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 21/09/06, *Yuandan Zhang* <yuandan.zhang at gmail.com 
> <mailto:yuandan.zhang at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 21/09/06, *Robin Laing* < Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
>     <mailto:Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca>> wrote:
> 
>         Yuandan Zhang wrote:
>>  Hope someone can help.
>>
>>  I have 512k ADSL broadband and connected to the internet via a
>         D-Link
>>  modem/touter. A laptop with XP and everything is fine on that.
>>  < http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#> Another laptop with a
>         dual boot
>>  system. I have Win XP (and again everything is fine) and FC5.
>>
>>  The problem is when I am surfing the internet under FC5 Linux.
>         Certain
>>  sites are fine, but some (google.com <http://google.com> <
>         http://google.com>, www.smh.com.au <http://www.smh.com.au>
>>  < http://www.smh.com.au>, etc,  to name a few) just don't
>         load, sometime,
>>  it keeps "looking up ... ' or  'connecting to ...'.   sometime, it
>>  stoped with ' loading problem ...', most of the time it just
>         stops after
>>  loading the banners.
>>
>>  the ethenet connection obtains auto dynemic ip address.
>>
>>  Any thoughts anyone? I am using the Firefox 1.5.0.7
>         <http://1.5.0.7> < http://1.5.0.7>
>>  browser.
>>  Yuandan
>>
> 
>         Is IPv6 still a problem in FC5?  Is it enabled?  If it is, try
>         turning
>         it off.
> 
>      
> 
> how do i know if ipv6 is enabled? I will try other sugestions later and 
> post output
> thanks
> 
> 
I don't use FC5 so if it is different, then someone else may correct me.

In my /etc/modules.conf on FC4 I have
   alias net-pf-10 off
   alias ipv6 off
which may be the same for FC5.

As I understand it, ipv6 can cause problems with DNS servers that are 
not configured to work with V6.

This isn't just a Linux issue.

   http://www.tweakxp.com/article37127.aspx

-- 
Robin Laing