Re: Terrible Web Surfing Speed

From: Snowbat (snowbat_at_geocities.com)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 02:52:14 -0200

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:14:57 -0800, Chris Carlen wrote:

> I quickly got it working with my Linksys WRT54G router. I somehow
> managed to find the DNS server addresses by Googling. Their stupid help
> pages only tell one how to check that Windows has them set to automatic
> via DHCP.
>
> But I am not using DHCP. My LAN hosts thus have manually set DNS
> servers.
>
> Everything seemed to be fine until suddenly about two weeks ago, web
> surfing in Linux became severely slow. Like 30 seconds to load cnn.com.
> Web pages *do* load, but only after a very long initial delay. After
> that they actually fill in pretty quickly. Ping behavior is similar. A
> very long time to do the initial lookup, then it runs fairly normal. FTP
> downloads run at 300kB/s so there's no problem with the basic
> networking. FTP within the LAN hits 11MB/s.

Since the WRT54G has a DNS server onboard, you should configure your LAN
hosts to use it (192.168.1.1) for DNS. This will solve the problem of
future DNS changes because the WRT54G picks up DNS peer details from your
ISP every time it renews your public ip address (the same way a windows
client with direct connection would do).

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