[Wylug-help] Slow Internet with Ubuntu 11.04

[Christopher McLean]

If it goes again, try something like:

mtr google.com

Might be best to do that while it's happy as well, just to give you a baseline. This should give you some idea on which hop the bottleneck is, as it's sounding more like gremlins in the pipes than any specific hardware issues; keep an eye on packet loss and average ping times.

few more quick question; 
* are you accessing the router web interface on its internal or external IP. It could be getting confused with packets originating on the local network hitting its external address
* have you tried another browser (chrome?), just to rule out firefox being dumb?

Chris

| -----Original Message-----
| From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk [mailto:wylug-help-
| bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Trevor Noland
| Sent: 02 September 2011 09:12
| To: Wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
| Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Slow Internet with Ubuntu 11.04
| 
| I'm flumoxed.
| This morning I retried everything I did last night, running live
| ubuntu, installed ubuntu, with and without encryptation and (with a
| few pauses which may be because of servers having too much work),
| everything worked almost perfectly. I downloaded and installed 176
| MB of updates, I surfed the web. Funny thing though, I tried to access
| the router (from Firefox, it has an html interface) and it
| took far longer than I would have expected, considering that it was
| serving pages from itself, without needing the Internet.
| Have Atheros and Ubuntu sent their fairies to fix my computer during
| the night?
| The only difference from when nothing worked is the presence of a
| couple of files in /etc/modprobe.d
| Plus, of course, the telephone company has assigned me a different IP.
| Everything has been turned off during the night (computers,
| router), and this morning things just started working right.
| Ahh, but for how long?
| I can't help feeling unsatisfied though, as when something starts going
| right for no apparent reason, it can just as easily start
| going wrong, for the same unknown reasons.
| 
| Trevor.
| 
| 
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