Re: Slow browsing with cable modem

From: Stephen Zilliox (szilliox_at_charter.net)
Date: 04/29/04

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    ">
    > 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. Turns out Charter is in the midst of a "service upgrade"
    > cycle. You can read about it at
    > http://www.dslreports.com/forum/charter (where I had suggested you go
    > early on).
    >

    Here is an early sample of answers I have received from the Charter forum.
    It cheers me that evidently these responders have no problems with linux in
    accessing the Charter system:

    My Linux boxes work fine. Check your browser's proxy settings. It should
    match what you have in Windows. AFAIK you don't need to use a proxy with
    Charter. Personally I use privoxy locally for ad filtering. 

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 also run RedHat Linux in a dual boot config with W2k. I use a router
(LinkSys) between the PC and the modem however. I have not noticed a big
difference in functionality between the different OS's, nor would I expect
to as TCP/IP is OS independant. You might want to check what the MTU setting
is for your ETHx device config as this maybe having an impact on your speed.
Also, what web browser are you using? I'm using Mozilla and have not had any
issues (as yet) with pages not displaying, etc.
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Also double check that your not using a manually set MAC address on that
ethernet interface in linux. I'm not sure how it would effect the system,
but they do register you by MAC so it might cause issues if you were to try
to use a software assigned MAC address.
For the record I have 4 Windows machines, a linux handheld, and a linux
server all running on a charter connection, none of them have any issues.
Browsers include NS 7.1, IE 6.?, and FireFox (mozilla 0.8) and I haven't
noticed any issues.
One thing you might want to also check is the DNS server addresses your
getting assigned. If your running Bind locally it could be having problems
going to the root servers for DNS requests, timing out, then trying the
charter dns servers. I would suggest updating your named settings if this is
the case as I have noticed a couple root server addresses have changed at
some point between the last time I updated the files and yesterday when I
re-dig'd the root server list.
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My box has a trios hard drive selector (w98, wME and Lindows). I use the
Lindows drive the majority of the time. Have had no problems and the linux
OS actually runs faster than Windows
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