webpages loads very slowly

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#1

Hi,

I’m using KDE Version 4.4.00 on OS11.2

all my browsers (konqueror, firefox, chrome) webpages
loads painfully slowly… on vista same connection, same
machine is loading is faster. I did not notice this in OS11.1
on same machine.
I tried disable IPv6 in boot and in firefox but it did not
improve situation significantly. I still get long looking up
of dns time after time.
Am I “paranoid” or is there some way I can address this this
slow loading issue?

Thanks for any help

#2

Do you mean you added this:

ipv6.disable=1

to the default boot in menu.lst and to sysctl.conf

#3

In addition to the above hint I recommend testing a different dns-server (→this app will help you to find the fastest one).

#4

Thanks very much for the suggestion, how do I change to the suggested DNS? :sarcastic: I haven’t found any directions.

And thank you for the question Adenozinas! :wink:

#5

YaST → Network Devices → Network settings → tab “Hostname / DNS”.

#6

I had the same problem: connection was fine with Vista and bad with Suse. I solve it by changing the DNS (as already suggested by gropiuskalle). Just I did it via NetworkManager as the connection is managed by the NM by default. You just have to right-click on the NM tray icon, go to the connection and change the properties as here

http://ubuntuguide.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/google_plublic_dns2.png

then restart the connection (for exapmple replugging the cable)

Davide

#7

I’ve been surfing all morning after making recommendations and the improvement in loading speeds have been great! rotfl! I’ve almost covered as much web territory before 12:00 noon as any other day since installing 11.2!

#8

Thanks for reply. Yes i did that. And i think it improved loading at a certain level, but sometimes i still get these slow loadings/looking-up’s.
I’ll try to look into this DNS changing thing.

#9

This is a very useful application that I can recommend to all. It really improved my speed from here in Mexico. Dramatically.

#10

It is really nice application. I liked it, but …
I noticed that i get different performance results every day.
I’m not sure i like to switch DNS severs everyday manually.
Although i don’t get messages of “looking up for …” anymore,
but i get quite frequently “waiting for …” in status bar
of Firefox.
Anyways that’s my observations. Thanks a lot for help.

#11

Hi,
Interesting observation. Same machiene same conection namebench
results differ in time, and respons time in MS Windows is twice faster
than in opensuse11.2 (time betweeen tests ~ 2min). I am curios why and I am sad about opensuse gets ass kick on network performance. Could this be true?

#12

It’s the other way for me. SUSE knocks the pants of Windows.

#13

Hi, sorry for pesimistic previuos post, it was upseting to see results but…
I found out reason for these results, it’s not SuSe’s or any linux fault afterall, it’s the wireless driver! I did test on wireless conection and my athk9 driver is limiting conection to 1Mbit/s, while in windows drver gives all benefits of 802.11n. Cheers! Now just need to fight with drivers … just :D.