Hi all I have a 128k cable modem connection with ntl through a D-Link DFE-550TX ethernet card. At the moment i'm having real issues with the browsing speeds through suse 8.2. When my daughter uses win98 on the same system she doesn't find any problems. I've been in touch with ntl and they say the problems they faced with the viruses last month should not effect win 98, i didn't see the point in telling them about Linux as they don't acknowlege its existance. Has anybody any ideas what is going wrong? The kernel module for the card is sundance. yours Paul H -- Powered by SuSe 8.2 KDE 3.1.3 K-mail 1.5.3
On Friday 19 September 2003 23:33, paul harrowsmith wrote:
Hi all
I have a 128k cable modem connection with ntl through a D-Link DFE-550TX ethernet card. At the moment i'm having real issues with the browsing speeds through suse 8.2.
First off, what the heck is ntl??? Second, are we talking the same kind of hardware? When you go to some of the popular speed-test sites (Google for them, or try thebandwidthplace.com ) do you get the same speed on windows as you do on linux? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
Hi, NTL use invisible http proxies and once I found that the proxy I was using wasn't working. After going through things for 30 mins on the phone I finally managed to convince them that it was their proxy and not my computer. Anyway have a look at the following, it has numerous fixes for everything for NTL and BLueyonder. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/ Especially http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/trancache.html Whatever you do never mention to NTL that you use Linux. I've made that mistake a few times and it causes more problems then it is worth It normally results in all problems being blamed onvLinux when it is really an issue at their end. When I was on their dial-up at Uni they changed they modems and my US Robotics 56K modem would not connect to their network. I had to pretend that I was going through the Windows control panel whilst I checked the config files in Linux. They never did fix it, so I moved to UKLinux.net. Regards Adam On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:33, paul harrowsmith wrote:
Hi all
I have a 128k cable modem connection with ntl through a D-Link DFE-550TX ethernet card. At the moment i'm having real issues with the browsing speeds through suse 8.2.
When my daughter uses win98 on the same system she doesn't find any problems.
I've been in touch with ntl and they say the problems they faced with the viruses last month should not effect win 98, i didn't see the point in telling them about Linux as they don't acknowlege its existance.
Has anybody any ideas what is going wrong? The kernel module for the card is sundance.
yours
Paul H
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On Saturday 20 September 2003 08:33, paul harrowsmith wrote:
Hi all
I have a 128k cable modem connection with ntl through a D-Link DFE-550TX ethernet card. At the moment i'm having real issues with the browsing speeds through suse 8.2.
First off, when you talk to them, say "Last time I called they said to ask for second-line tech support" Some people there know about linux :) If you do an "ifconfig" as root, what do you get back? What is the MTU setting? Is itdirect onto the net, or via a hardware/software firewall? What happens if you try a traceroute to somewhere like www.demon.net or and www.ntl.com ? What about ping times to these sites? Do you have a caching name server set up on your linux box with NTLs nameservers being your "forwarders", or are you getting the domain records from the root servers? Perhaps answering some of these questions may help some people see where your problem lays.
On Saturday 20 September 2003 16:09, The Purple Tiger wrote:
First off, when you talk to them, say "Last time I called they said to ask for second-line tech support" Some people there know about linux
:)
If you do an "ifconfig" as root, what do you get back? What is the MTU setting? Is itdirect onto the net, or via a hardware/software firewall?
This is the result of ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:E9:EF:58 inet addr:80.7.127.73 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::205:5dff:fee9:ef58/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:7112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:291 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:521493 (509.2 Kb) TX bytes:22220 (21.6 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe800 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:438 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:438 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:172606 (168.5 Kb) TX bytes:172606 (168.5 Kb)
What happens if you try a traceroute to somewhere like www.demon.net or and www.ntl.com ?
traceroute to www.demon.net (194.159.254.213), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.141.119.254 9.313 ms 6.400 ms 7.653 ms 2 213.106.238.201 13.568 ms 10.370 ms 8.151 ms 3 213.106.237.165 16.289 ms 12.186 ms 25.123 ms 4 213.106.237.1 61.617 ms 41.910 ms 36.627 ms 5 62.253.187.89 13.883 ms 9.404 ms 16.780 ms 6 62.253.185.238 14.670 ms 53.473 ms 19.143 ms 7 62.253.185.82 26.667 ms 34.928 ms 49.637 ms 8 195.66.226.12 58.438 ms 42.488 ms 26.289 ms 9 194.159.36.233 23.541 ms 16.051 ms 15.834 ms 10 194.159.254.213 25.952 ms * 18.212 ms
What about ping times to these sites?
PING www.demon.net (194.159.254.213) 56(84) bytes of data.
Do you have a caching name server set up on your linux box with NTLs nameservers being your "forwarders", or are you getting the domain records from the root servers?
Sorry lost me.
Perhaps answering some of these questions may help some people see where your problem lays.
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The 03.09.20 at 20:04, paul harrowsmith wrote:
Do you have a caching name server set up on your linux box with NTLs nameservers being your "forwarders", or are you getting the domain records from the root servers?
Sorry lost me.
Issue this command: nimrodel:~ # rcnamed status Checking for nameserver BIND 9 running nimrodel:~ # If you get "inactive" or "unused", then that is not the problem - you might enable it, but that is another problem (windoze doesn't have it, so don't compare). If the answer is "running", we need your bind (dns) config. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.09.20 at 20:04, paul harrowsmith wrote:
Do you have a caching name server set up on your linux box with NTLs nameservers being your "forwarders", or are you getting the domain records from the root servers?
Sorry lost me.
Issue this command:
nimrodel:~ # rcnamed status Checking for nameserver BIND 9 running nimrodel:~ #
I get command not found. Which package is it in? Thanks Paul -- Powered by SuSe 8.2 KDE 3.1.3 K-mail 1.5.3
On Sunday 21 September 2003 07:49, paul harrowsmith wrote:
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:
nimrodel:~ # rcnamed status Checking for nameserver BIND 9 running nimrodel:~ #
I get command not found. Which package is it in? Thanks Did you run it as root?
On Sunday 21 September 2003 08:15, The Purple Tiger wrote:
On Sunday 21 September 2003 07:49, paul harrowsmith wrote:
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:
nimrodel:~ # rcnamed status Checking for nameserver BIND 9 running nimrodel:~ #
I get command not found. Which package is it in? Thanks
Did you run it as root?
Yes I tried as user and su. linux:/home/arry # rcnamed status bash: rcnamed: command not found linux:/home/arry # Paul -- Powered by SuSe 8.2 KDE 3.1.3 K-mail 1.5.3
-----Original Message----- From: paul harrowsmith <arrysmith@ntlworld.com> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:44:02 +0100 Subject: Re: [SLE] slow browsing with ntl
On Sunday 21 September 2003 08:15, The Purple Tiger wrote:
On Sunday 21 September 2003 07:49, paul harrowsmith wrote:
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:
nimrodel:~ # rcnamed status Checking for nameserver BIND 9 running nimrodel:~ #
I get command not found. Which package is it in? Thanks
Did you run it as root?
Yes I tried as user and su.
linux:/home/arry # rcnamed status bash: rcnamed: command not found linux:/home/arry #
Paul
The package you want to install is bind9. Ken
The 03.09.21 at 07:49, paul harrowsmith wrote:
nimrodel:~ # rcnamed status Checking for nameserver BIND 9 running nimrodel:~ #
I get command not found. Which package is it in?
bind. But don't worry, you don't really need it. It doesn't affect a network speed comparison beetween windows and linux on the same machine. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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