Tim and Alison wrote:
I use a router to connect to the Internet via broadband. My PC is due boot win98 (the wife) and currently FC2 for me. Since I have upgraded to FC2 from FC1 my browser performance has slowed. Some times it feels like I am using a k56 modem. If we use Win 98 or WinXP from my work laptop through the same connection we get great performance.
Is this a know problem in 2.6.5 or a configuration problem?
Help please
Tim
If you are experiencing SLOW network access, it could be due to the fact that you are running IPv6.
An easy way to disable this is to modify /etc/modprobe.conf to include the following line:
alias net-pf-10 off
You will need to reboot, but it solved the problem for me. I have Comcast cable Internet, and prior to upgrade to FC2, I was seeing > 3Mb/s download rates. After the upgrade to FC2, I was seeing around 1.2Mb/s download rates. Obviously, this was unacceptable.
Turns out IPv6 was enabled in my configuration and the added line to the modprobe.conf file fixed my network speed issues. By disabling IPv6, I was able to get back to what I expected to be the true bandwidth.
Hopefully this note will help othere who may experience the same problems.
Regards.
-- Doug Brott brott at redh dot com
