slow surfing broadband under FC5

Tod Merley todbot88 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 10:43:23 UTC 2006


On 9/21/06, Yuandan Zhang <yuandan.zhang at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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Hi Again Yuandan Zhang!

One more thing.  You mention "about:config" which I believe means that
you edited the line concerning "IPv6-dns disable" in your Firefox
browser.  That is fine for Firefox but other things may wish to
resolve names using IPv6 name service so you should probably see my
previous post which I believe is a better answer.

Good Hunting!

Tod




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