Hello,
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/30/2010 12:06 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since two or three days, my network connection seems to have become
>> much slower. Loading websites with Firefox now takes a mutliple of the
>> time, and I am having sporadic "no mirrors found" errors with yum. I
>> am running F12 on a Dell Latitude D820 laptop, and I am connected by
>> wire to a router. There has been no noticeable change on two Windows
>> machines connected to the same router. All machines connect via DCHP.
>>
>> What can I do to diagnose or fix the problem? Thanks!
>
> First, "ifconfig -a" and look at the error counts for each interface.
> If you see a lot, then you start looking at hardware (bad cables, dirty
> or loose connectors, flakey NICs, etc.).
>
> If the errors look OK, have a look at your (DSL|cable) modem's
> statistics and see if there's something odd going on at the WAN side
> of things. If using cable modem or DSL, you may need to reboot your
> router and/or modem. I make a habit of doing that every six months
> or so.
>
> If you're running nscd, purge your nscd DNS cache ("nscd -i hosts").
ifconfig shows no errors. I restarted the router and did nscd -i
hosts, and it got worse. Now, opening some pages (e.g. BBC News) takes
more than half a minute. The Windows machines connected to the same
router, on the other hand, load web pages just fine.
Take care
Oliver
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