On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Felix Boecker wrote:
> alright, I'm having a rather bizarre problem to which I have found no
> solution as of yet.
>
> when h'm at home, I connect through a broadband connection and web pages
> load (in accordance with what anyone would expect from broadband
> Internet) reasonably fast.
>
> at school, however (using the same setup), web pages load terribly slow.
> A dial-up connection would be faster.
Maybe your MTU is off? Try dropping the MTU at school.
Check ifconfig's output, specifically the "error" count:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:AF:1F:A3
inet addr:192.168.1.11 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:20117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:23476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7620401 (7.2 Mb) TX bytes:10373420 (9.8 Mb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xb000
Maybe that'll provide a hint?
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