slow surfing broadband under FC5
Yuandan Zhang
yuandan.zhang at gmail.com
Thu Sep 21 21:05:24 UTC 2006
On 22/09/06, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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after turn ipv6 off using 'about:config'. the problem was fixed. thanks a
lot
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