Slow Downloads

[viator1]

I'm new to Linux, and have been using it with no problems for about 45 days.

Just a few days ago, my downloads with Firefox and Thunderbird became very slow. There have been no hardware changes and I believe I have the latest updates.

I am using a dual boot with Vista. The Vista and IE 8 and Outlook Express work fine with good download speeds.

Thanks for any help.

[oz]

Hello and welcome to the forums!

You could try disabling ipv6 if you haven't done so already:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/We...ngSlowIPv6IPv4

Doing so seems to make a big difference for some users.

[viator1]

Oz:

Thanks for your reply. I'll give it a try tomorrow.

[viator1]

I made sure the ipv6 is turned off in all applications. Still very slow downloads. When I booted up on Vista/IE8/Outlook Express to send this meassge, I found 32 messages, which had not been downloaded from a previous Thunderbird logon.

I seems that sites I visit download about 90% fairly fast, but the last 10% just doesn't make it.

[Rubberman]

Likely problem is likely your DNS server settings. This doesn't affect actual download speeds, but it does affect URL -> IP address resolution speeds, and has the same effect. Post the contents of you /etc/resolv.conf file here.

[viator1]

I'm at work this evening, so I'll post tomorrow. Thanks for your help.

[viator1]

Likely problem is likely your DNS server settings. This doesn't affect actual download speeds, but it does affect URL -> IP address resolution speeds, and has the same effect. Post the contents of you /etc/resolv.conf file here.

Here is the info:

etc/resolvconf
update-libc.d
avahi-daemon
postfix

The avahi-daemon file contains:

#!/bin/sh
#
# If we have an unicast .local domain, we immediately disable avahi to avoid
# conflicts with the multicast IP4LL .local domain

if [ -x /usr/lib/avahi/avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh ]; then
exec /usr/lib/avahi/avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh
fi

The postfix file contains:

#!/bin/sh -e

# make sure we're still here...
[ -x /usr/sbin/postconf ] || exit 0

cp /etc/resolv.conf $(/usr/sbin/postconf -h queue_directory)/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/init.d/postfix reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0

exit 0

I'm not much of a code writer/programmer, so if we need to get any deeper, I will need some specific instructions.

I really appreciate your help. Going back to Windows after using Linux is not fun.

[Rubberman]

Huh? This is not the contents of resolv.conf. That file should look something like this:

server 192.168.1.1

There may be more than one server entry, and there may be an entry at the top like "search mydomain.com". What you have shown is a shell script, and resolv.conf should not be, AFAIK, a shell script.

[viator1]

Thanks for your reply.

Sorry, I found the /etc/resolv.conf file and copied that. As I mentioned, I'm not a code write/programmer, but do have enough knowledge to be dangerous....

I''m not sure where to look for the info you mentioned. I looked up Active Network Connections and found the IP address to be 192.168.1.101, The broadcast address to be 192.168.1.255 and the default route to be 192.168.1.1

If there is another place I should look, please let me know.

I appreciate your help.

Regards,

Dave

[elija]

Open a terminal and type the following:

cat /etc/resolv.conf <enter>

This will output the contents of the file to the terminal and then you can copy and paste it here