slow connection fast net

Gallan · #1 29th August 2006, 07:31 PM

ok so my problem is that when I try to go www.fedoraforum.org or anywhere else it takes about 20 seconds to find page but when it have been found page uploads fast.I'm downloading fc5 from mirror 218 KB/sec. I installed wireshark program but I don't have skills to "read" it so can someone help me to explane why all those things are happening and howto fix it?

Seve · #2 30th August 2006, 12:21 AM

Hello:
Sounds like it is slow to resolve dns?
You could try opening your browser and type about:config in the address bar and filter for ipv
and set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true
you could also add:

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
to your /etc/modprobe.conf file

Seve

Gallan · #3 30th August 2006, 10:51 AM

thank you Seve now net is working fine

thanks!!!

Gallan · #4 31st August 2006, 10:34 AM

problems again...

there is still something wrong because yum and smart are painfully slow and here is picture what smart is trying to do.

Gallan · #5 31st August 2006, 12:20 PM

ok more thinking...

smart and yum are trying to call AAAA apt.sw.be and then AAAA apt.sw.be.localdomain and those fail. then it is turn to try A apt.sw.be and congratulation that works...so can someone tell me what is that AAAA I have searched net, could it be something to do with ipv6? when I'm surfing on the net I don't see that AAAA page because I turned those ipv6 things off...(thanks Seve)

but why this new adsl modem(RR24) is not working like old one (telewell ae400)

this sucks!!!

brunson · #6 31st August 2006, 04:53 PM

Did you disable ipv6 in /etc/modprobe.conf as suggested?

Gallan · #7 2nd September 2006, 12:00 AM

yes I did! so net is working quite well but why smart and yum are using that AAAA call?

Gallan · #8 2nd September 2006, 10:16 AM

ok more info,

I bought new adsl-modem and it did the trick, old one was a-link rr24 (back to store) so I would say you don't want to try that one with linux!!! now the new modem can handle those AAAA questions but still I would like to know why yum/smart are using that? it is ipv6 thing because when I use ipv6 with firefox it is asking those AAAA things but when I take that ipv6 away from firefox it doesn't do that anymore. so now yum/smart are fast but it still bothers why it is happening???

any ideas?