Re: Slow browsing with cable modem

From: P Gentry (rdgentry1_at_cablelynx.com)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: 26 Apr 2004 22:39:32 -0700

Bit Twister <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message news:<slrnc8r534.8up.BitTwister@wb.home.invalid>...
> On 26 Apr 2004 15:24:37 -0700, P Gentry wrote:
>
> > After spending some hours (off and on) doing pings and traceroutes and
> > IP lookups it began to dawn on me that your ISP's network is not in
> > good shape.
>
> Well, looking at some of the clues given so far, a dual boot windows
> box hooked to the cable modem would tend to rule out hardware because
> the windows box is not having the problem.

That's what I meant by subtle ... I mean _really_ subtle ;-)

> I looked at his traceroutes and every hop was about 10 milliseconds
> faster than mine. His dns server lookups were 10 times faster than mine.
> His network is faster than my comcaste connection.

Once he gets out of Charter he gets on a good backbone OK. And the
numbers look acceptable to me, but OP complains of non-responsiveness
in his browsing, so ... it's lousy from his end, I guess. A problem
with DNS is the only thing I can think of that causes his described
browser symptoms.

> I am down to guessing he maybe running his own bind/named dns server or
> there is no swap but the OP has not responded to my last request over on
> alt.os.linux.mandrake

Surely he would tell us such an obvious thing and MK wouldn't load it
by any installation default, would it? Then again ...
 
> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
> 108bru1l19r6855@corp.supernews.com in the Message ID box.

I agree that he might have some services that are invisibly eating his
bandwidth -- thought of asking earlier. And you covered what few
things above we've not seen here.

Sure wish I knew what Charter thinks of the OP requesting IP's from
both Win and Linux. He's obviously getting two IPs but has only one
MAC. My provider's net seems to adjust OK when I crank up Windows for
the nieces, though I sometimes have to force a new lease request (and
even then I usually get the same IP). I just can't get away from the
sneaky, creepy feeling that the way to more consistent performance
between Win and Linux is to set his Linux DHCP client-id to match his
Win client-id. The spector of Gates and Balmer lurks everywhere ];-)

Anyway, I'm pretty much out of ideas at this stage. The only info
that I can think of that hasn't been requested yet is:
$ netstat -s -p tcp
which I think is available on Windows (after a fashion) as well as
Linux. At least it would provide _some_ comparative numbers.

regards,
prg
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