So lately when i’m watching a video on YouTube my internet connection appears to be throttled at about 55kb/s so I can only watch a video at about 240p. But the funny thing is that it’s not throttled. I have 2 other computers running opensuse 13.2 and they can watch youtube just fine at 200kb\s (my top speed…I know it’s sad) My phone also loads videos fine. The other funny thing is that I have Kodi on my computer and that will load youtube at my top speed with no issues. So i thought it might be my browser (Firefox)…nope. installed chromium and it didn’t make any difference. Also doesn’t seem to matter if it’s HTML5 or Flash. I’m really stumped. Any Ideas.
Is this box somehow configured to use different DNS servers, a different
gateway (very unlikely), or maybe a proxy server? Are you connected to a
silly VPN that captures all of your traffic with this box?
Get/post a LAN trace and perhaps we’ll be able to see what is really
happening on the wire; if all of the packets on this box resemble another
box, that could apply.
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Thank you ab for the reply.
First I have some more info. All of my computers on my network connect to a router and all are configured to get the DNS server from the router. (at least I think so. I’ll have to double check). And no proxies. The other odd thing is that apparently I can watch YouTube with “Midori” web browser and it works perfectly. However Chromium, Firefox, Konqueror, Rekonq and Web all behave the same (like ****). I tried connecting to the router via ethernet and that seems to work. SO I tried a my wifi dongle from my raspberry pi and that also works.
I would post a lan trace but I’m not really sure on how to do it. I have run SuSE/OpenSuSE for about 15 years now and never had to do one so I never taught myself. However I’m usually pretty good at trouble shooting and figuring it out.
Right now it doesn’t matter so much because the wifi dongle works so I’m good with that. But I am curious if I change my IP address if it has any affect. Going try that just for the hell of it.
Is IPv6 enabled? If so, disable it in case that helps. I doubt that’s
it, though, since IPv6 issues usually interfere with starting connections,
not using them once setup.
A LAN trace with tcpdump can be taken like this:
sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n -s 0 -i any -w /tmp/http.cap port 80 or port 443
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OK this is stupid. I went to do a trace and for some reason the interface is working fine again. It hasn’t been working for weeks. I have full speed again on that interface. I was starting to think that there was a problem maybe with the kernel module because my other interfaces use different drivers and worked fine but now they all work. It doesn’t make sense. I haven’t done an update or anything. Oh well. Maybe it’s like a particle of Uranium that doesn’t decay when you watch it, but look away and poof. LOL. IPv6 is enabled but i will try disabling it next time it happens.
Thanks for all your help.
As soon as you show your computer you’re about to fix a problem by using
the big tools it gets scared into behaving normally. Hardware is finicky
that way…
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