Hello I just switched back to OpenSuse only to encounter one issue, my internet for some reason is extremely slow, if one website is loading, it seems it does not want to load another one, I cant have myspace load, and try to get onto google in a new tab… unless it is one of the rare occasions it allows me to. And I have 1.2 Gigs of RAM, and for some reason openSUSE only says I have 64 megs of it free, when I am only running FireFox and Amarok, is this part of the internet problem?
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> have you checked that ipv6 is disabled ?
> firewall correctly configured ?
> Beagle turned off ?
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> Andy
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Is your computer facing the appropriate direction based on your religion?
Is someone pinching your ethernet cable? (no, really…, pinch it in a door
jamb sometime… watch your connectivity drop!)
Beagle is a good culprit… it’s usually the first thing to be taken care of
on a new install… Bad Doggie!! GET OUT!! {BOOT!!}
Is it just the internet that’s slow? or everything on the computer? (Beagle
makes everything slow)
Can you try some of the internet speed tests (dslreports, myspeedtest,
etc) ? What do they report?
Linux handles ram differently than windows… ANY ‘free’ ram you see is
because linux didn’t need it at that time. It caches as much as it needs,
and will throw out the in-ram cache to load more programs. (see the output
of the ‘free’ command in a terminal) It’s all done dynamically and you’ve
got more than enough ram. I have 100Meg free on my 1.5 Gig system, and
over 512M free on my 4Gig system. (it’s got everything cached!!)
Myspace isn’t likely the best candidate to be basing speed tests with… the
massive number of flash blinkies and 'look-at-me’s makes it load slower and
take inordinate amounts of cpu time to handle the shiny.
See if a less flash intensive site loads better… opensuse.org, the forums
page, bash.org, etc.
But first off… right click on the little kerry beagle, go to configure,
daemon status, and turn it off!! (then uninstall it through yast… bad
doggie!!)
I disabled and uninstalled Kerry through YaST. I dont know how to chack if Ipv6 is disabled. Everything seems to work a bit better now that Beagle is dead. I have a firewall, I didn’t really know actually I just got openSUSE?
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> I disabled and uninstalled Kerry through YaST. I dont know how to chack
> if Ipv6 is disabled. Everything seems to work a bit better now that
> Beagle is dead. I have a firewall, I didn’t really know actually I
> just got openSUSE?
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easiest way to disable IPV6 is through the Yast -> network devices ->
Network settings -> Global Settings tab.
Should see a checkbox for ‘enable / disable IPV6’ (or something like that)
Will need to reboot after disabling IPV6 so the various modules will be
removed from use.
Well now I have disabled that, I can see only one more problem, it seems like if it is loading a page, and I try to open a new tab and go to another page, it throws them both into a seemingly never ending loading loop, it will finish loading them eventually but it takes a very long time! I have seen this in other distros but it seems worse in openSUSE.
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> Well now I have disabled that, I can see only one more problem, it seems
> like if it is loading a page, and I try to open a new tab and go to
> another page, it throws them both into a seemingly never ending loading
> loop, it will finish loading them eventually but it takes a very long
> time! I have seen this in other distros but it seems worse in
> openSUSE.
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Hmmm, time to visit a speed test page.
Speedtest: http://www.speedtest.net/
Flash application, good if your java isn’t playing today, returned fairly
accurate report on my (known) rate.
I’d say check your broadband throughput with an online internet test. It more likely to do with your ISP. It can involve factors such as latency, bandwisth, quality of service (speed consistency). One of the many tests:
I believe, even though I am not sure though, that I have a 1.5 Megabyte connection, the speed test showed these results.
DOWNLOAD: 1318 kbs
UPLOAD: 551 kbs
ISP: Qwest
SERVER: Denver CO
PING: 175ms
DISTANCE: 250 Mi
Omodatsu wrote:
> I believe, even though I am not sure though, that I have a 1.5 Megabyte
> connection, the speed test showed these results.
> DOWNLOAD: 1318 kbs
> UPLOAD: 551 kbs
> ISP: Qwest
> SERVER: Denver CO
> PING: 175ms
> DISTANCE: 250 Mi
ISP’s always state capacity in Mega bits per second. You are getting
pretty nearly full throughput for a 1.5 Mb/s DSL. Upload is nearly
always slower than download.
You really do need to disable ipv6. If enabled without an ipv6
network, you are getting a DNS timeout for EVERY name server lookup.
That absolutely kills throughput when browsing.
I did disable Ipv6. Everything seems to be working better now, and I can attribute a little of the slowness to having 2 computers use a 1.5 mbps connection at the same time,thanks for helping everyone. This forum is 10 times more helpful than Ubuntu’s was!