Help - Extremely slow internet speed in etch

[manusmad]

Hello everyone,

I am newbie user, and have shifted to using Debian completely though I use a dual-boot system. There is a single problem, though.

About 80% of the time, Debian gives very slow internet speeds (of the order of max. 500 BPS !!).

I use Debian Etch 4.0r3 amd64

System specs:
AMD Athlon 3000+
512 MB DDR
Debian installed on 10 GB ext3 partition

I have a proxy internet connection, password enabled.

The problem is resolved sometimes when I restart. As I said, this happens in about 80% of the sessions. Sometimes, there is no problem at all.

I get very high speeds in Windows. (I am using windows now to post this message, painful as it is)

The slowness is not just with iceweasel browsing. All services... apt-get, updates show the same slow speed.

Please help

[oz]

You might need to disable IPv6 if you haven't done so already. I'm not sure how it's disabled in Debian, but in Arch it can easily be disabled in the /etc/modprobe.conf file:

alias net-pf-10 off

IPv6: The Next Generation Internet!

[manusmad]

I searched around for it, and this is what I found on another forum

I use a plain AMD box, i commented the line:

alias net-pf-10 ipv6

in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

and then in iceweasel, i wrote about:config and toggled the line to look like this:

network.dns.disableIPv6 user set boolean true

I'll try this, and

alias net-pf-10 off

and get back to you.. Thanks !!

[manusmad]

I did the following steps, each one in turn, restarted, and tested... no change. Internet is still at a snail's pace. Please help.

/etc/modprobe.d/aliases
# alias net-pf-10 ipv6

iceweasel about:config
network.dns.disableIPv6 user set boolean true

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
blacklist ipv6