When I installed Ubuntu on a laptop at home, my Internet performance was horrible. I had installed Ubuntu before, but never had any issues. I then installed Etch, same issue, same laptop. I tried other OS's without any success. I then tried an older version of Debian and it worked fine. I searched Google and found a little blurp about window size and routers and the newer kernels. I don't know if this will help you, but with the machine running, open a terminal window, go to root mode and cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling. If it is set to 1, change it to 0 with echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling. Close FF and try again. The difference was night and day for me. There are a few work arounds, but if this works and you want a permanent solution, add "net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0" to /etc/sysctl.conf. I know there are other settings, but this worked well for me. Motheaton28@aol.com wrote: > Kenneth wrote: > >> --- "Robert N. Eaton" wrote: >> >> >>> In Fedora 7 Thunderbird doesn't connect at all: it times out. Firefox >>> connects to a very few sites and doesn't seem to finish the connection, >>> no matter how long it tries. Seems like a software problem, but _which_ >>> software? SELinux? Firewall? >>> >> When firefox doesn't connect, what does the status bar say it's doing? >> looking up host, waiting for reply? >> >> What's the output of "ifconfig -a" ? >> >> > [bob@localhost sbin]$ ./ifconmfig -a > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:34:C3:19 > inet addr:192:168:0:3 Bcast:192:168:0:255 Mask:255:255:255:0 inet6 > addr fe80::255:5dff:fe34:c319/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:2195 (2.1 KB) TX bytes:10602 (10.3 KiB) > Interrupt:20 Base address:0x4000 > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:E5:8D:12 > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt:16 Base address:0x8000 > > lo Link encap:Local loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:10274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:10274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:89837264 (85.6 Mib) TX bytes:89837264 (85.6 MiB) > > [bob@localhost sbin]$ > > If there are any errors, it's my typing. This is worse than sneakernet; > I couldn't figure a protocol to write the ./ifconfig -a output to a > floppy and then cut and paste in WinXP Thunderbird. I had to print it > out and then reboot into WinXP, open Thunderbird, type it in by hand, > and I'm a lousy typist. > > Bob > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >