inconsistent connection

rkonrad · October 20, 2011, 12:56am

I’m using lxde 11.4. This seems like an odd problem - to me. My connection to the net varies. My download speeds are quite excellent but when I click on a link including bookmarks in any browser there anywhere between 5-30 sec connection delay. I thought it might be a problem from my provider but as I said, downloads are excellent. So when I have this problem, I simply type what I want directly into the address box and my connection is immediate. I’m not sure what other information to convey. Let me know - thanks.

Richard

jdmcdaniel3 · October 20, 2011, 3:07am

You might find it interesting to test your speed at this site and post the results:

Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test

I even have add issues due to DNS servers before and switched to the Google Servers myself. Here is a list at least around me:


 Google

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

Level 3 Communications (Broomfield, CO, US)

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6

Verizon (Reston, VA, US)

151.197.0.38
151.197.0.39
151.202.0.84
151.202.0.85
151.202.0.85
151.203.0.84
151.203.0.85
199.45.32.37
199.45.32.38
199.45.32.40
199.45.32.43

GTE (Irving, TX, US)

192.76.85.133
206.124.64.1

One Connect IP (Albuquerque, NM, US)

67.138.54.100

OpenDNS (San Francisco, CA, US)

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Exetel (Sydney, AU)

220.233.167.31

VRx Network Services (New York, NY, US)

199.166.31.3

SpeakEasy (Seattle, WA, US)

66.93.87.2
216.231.41.2
216.254.95.2
64.81.45.2
64.81.111.2
64.81.127.2
64.81.79.2
64.81.159.2
66.92.64.2
66.92.224.2
66.92.159.2
64.81.79.2
64.81.159.2
64.81.127.2
64.81.45.2
216.27.175.2
66.92.159.2
66.93.87.2

Sprintlink (Overland Park, KS, US)

199.2.252.10
204.97.212.10
204.117.214.10

Cisco (San Jose, CA, US)

64.102.255.44
128.107.241.185

logo2 Public DNS Servers
OpenNIC

202.83.95.227 (au)
119.31.230.42(au)
178.63.26.173 (de)
217.79.186.148 (de)
27.110.120.30(nz)
89.16.173.11 (uk)
69.164.208.50 (us)
216.87.84.211(us)
2001:470:8388:10:0:100:53:20 (us)
2001:470:1f10:c6::2 (us)

I put mine into my router, but it can also be set into your copy of openSUSE though you have to switch to manual network configuration to do so.

Thank You,

rkonrad · October 20, 2011, 6:33am

I shall do as you say. It’s odd though that I have none of these problems when I run puppy linux off my cd.

Richard

jdmcdaniel3 · October 20, 2011, 1:05pm

I shall do as you say. It’s odd though that I have none of these problems when I run puppy linux off my cd.

Richard

The speed test should work in any Internet Browser, so give it a try when using Puppy.

Thank You,

tsu2 · October 21, 2011, 10:33pm

When you either click on a bookmark or type a URL directly into the address bar,

It should look exactly the same to both your network service running on your machine and all networking beyond it (including your ISP and everything else).

Therefor IMO the problem is likely your browser app itself, so I recommend

Minimizing the resources used by your browser… ie. fewer or only one window, fewer or no tabs.
Verifying you’re running the most up to date version of your browser, and verify automatic updating is enabled.
Verify that you don’t have a background process unattended… eg an update waiting for installation

HTH,
Tony

rkonrad · October 26, 2011, 7:44am

The speed results were the same under opensuse and puppy but the browser speed - response time was dramatically different. In fact, (no tests to document this) the whole test passed by much faster under puppy. All links are sluggish under opensue with all browsers that I tested including chrome, opera and firefox. This wasn’t the case when I first installed lxde version of opensuse. All tests are clean in that there are no extra tabs etc, no other operations running in the background etc.

Thanks

glistwan · October 26, 2011, 8:40am

I think You could try and compare the output of such a command on puppy and openSUSE to see what’s happening :

$ time nslookup opensuse.org
Non-authoritative answer:
Server:  google-public-dns-b.google.com
Address:  8.8.4.4

Name:    opensuse.org
Address:  130.57.5.70


real    0m0.270s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.030s

This will more or less benchmark the speed of DNS name resolution. If the time is significanlty longer on openSUSE than that might be your problem.

Best regards,
Greg

DenverD · October 26, 2011, 1:58pm

On 10/26/2011 08:46 AM, glistwan wrote:
> If the time is significanlty longer on openSUSE than that might be your
> problem.

and, if that is the problem then: have you disabled IPv6?

–
DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems

lwfinger · October 26, 2011, 6:25pm

On 10/26/2011 06:58 AM, DenverD wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 08:46 AM, glistwan wrote:
>> If the time is significanlty longer on openSUSE than that might be your
>> problem.
>
> and, if that is the problem then: have you disabled IPv6?

A little more correctly - does your DNS supplier (probably your ISP) handle IPv6
correctly? It is not wise to disable IPv6 in most cases as there soon will be
sites that are not accessible with IPv4.

If your DNS server returns an AAAA+ record and does not handle IPv6 correctly,
then you will get a timeout on EVERY request. You can either disable IPv6 (not
recommended), or switch to public name servers that implement IPv6 correctly. To
do this, edit /etc/resolv.conf (as root) and replace the existing “nameserver”
line with


nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Those servers are run by Google and work correctly.