Slow Web Browsers

[david]

I wonder if anyone can shed some light on this problem...
I have just loaded Mandrake 10 which seems to work ok but the internet is
so slow its like 56k speed again. I have a 2mb connection through a
modem/router which is great in windows. Why is linux so slow? or have I
messed up the loading of the software?

Many thanks for any replies.

[Andrew Hutchings]

Kinda need a bit more info on this, what router are you using, which
ISP, how are you connected to the router, machine spec, etc...
Is it slow finding the site and then loads it quick or does it take a
while to load each image/main text body?
In general (and in personal experience as I run 50 Linux server for an
ISP) Linux should be faster at networking tasks.

Regards
Andrew
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[mark]

Andrew Hutchings wrote:

> david wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone can shed some light on this problem...
>> I have just loaded Mandrake 10 which seems to work ok but the internet is
>> so slow its like 56k speed again. I have a 2mb connection through a
>> modem/router which is great in windows. Why is linux so slow? or have I
>> messed up the loading of the software?

Hi Andrew...

Just a guess... but that happens with some distro's i use too,
this may be a similar problem to what i came accross..
what seems to be happening is that the Browser seems to be using IPv6
.. so i typed in the Location bar in Mozilla about:config
scrolled down to where is says something like
network disable ipv6 and change it to ENABLE..
a double-click usually sorts this.
Hope this helps..
Mark

[Mark]

Hi David..

this may help if u run out of things to try..
well, it did for me... the symptoms i got were some pages loading slowly
or not at all,
and some right away. i dont know if this is happening for you, but if
anyone else is interested
i typed about:config in the address bar, scrolled down to where it said
something like
' network.dns..disable.ipv6 ' and double clicked it to swap the value..
- worked a treat. i cant remember much more.. it was a while ago. sorry
David..
i'm a newbie myself really..
good luck ..
Mark