Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

[george olson <grglsn765@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/22/2011 08:42 PM, phanisvara das wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:06:40 +0530, George OLson <grglsn765@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>
> > Yes, the timeouts are a problem, and I think it is a combination of 
> > an inconsistent internet connection, and maybe not having exactly the 
> > right driver for my ethernet connection? Sometimes I know it is just 
> > the internet, like in the evening, when the whole city here bogs down 
> > the bandwidth of the local service. The only reason I think there 
> > might be a problem with my ethernet driver also is that when I unplug 
> > my cat5 cable and plug it into the plug on my windows laptop, web 
> > pages on chrome and firefox "seem" to load faster. I have measured it 
> > once or twice going to cnn.com, and I get about a 5-10 second 
> > difference, I think. But I realize that is not necessarily a good 
> > scientific means of testing, so I am kind of wondering how I would 
> > check that.
>
>
>
> where are you living? doesn't sound like US or europe. i'm living in 
> rural india and have similar problems from time to time. if it gets 
> really bad i have to download the necessary rpm's from the appropriate 
> repositories with wget, kget, or some other download utility that can, 
> after disconnection, start downloading where the process was 
> interrupted, so that big files don't have to start all over again.
Yes, you are right! I am in Manila, the Philippines.
> you can still use yast or zypper to figure out which packages you 
> need, dependencies & all, but go to the repository with a browser and 
> download the rpm's manually. (you find the repo. addresses in yast, or 
> with "zypper lr -d".)
Ok, I went to the opensuse update repository (to start off) with my  
browser, and there was a link to a directory there called "repodata", 
and on that directory there is a list of files. What do I do from here? 
Do I save this this html page to a local directory and add that local 
directory to my list of configured repositories? Or do I click on each 
individual file and download it? They are mostly files with the 
extension .gz on them, though some have .asc or .key

> re. difference in browser speed, that may depend on if or when these 
> pages have been opened already in that particular browser. they all 
> have their own caches where images, animations, etc., are stored for a 
> while, leading to websites opening faster.
>
> if your network adapter doesn't work properly, you can probably see a 
> lot of errors, dropped packages, and overrun incidents if you type 
> "ifconfig" at a root terminal.
>
> another thing to consider is the "MTU" value of your network 
> connection. particularly older network hardware (on the ISP side) 
> can't handle network packages that are too large, so leaving your 
> network at the default value (1500) may lead to lousy connection, and 
> some sites not being available at all. in my case, i have to set a 
> value of MTU=1452, otherwise i suffer from these symptoms. (you can 
> set that wherever you configure your network: yast, networkmanager, or 
> the config. files under /etc/sysconfig/network.)

Couldn't figure out where to set that. How do I determine what is 
managing my network? That is one thing that a friend set up for me, and 
he is not here now.

Thanks
George

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