Hi,
For the past 5 years I had the cable modem facing downstream VOIP motorola box and that was facing the netgear router (with wireless). Since my son moved out, three months ago and took the spare computer, I became a one computer owner.
I left the router in the loop, as I thought to obtain a second computer to replace what I gave away.
Yesterday, I bypassed the router, and noted a marked improvement in response times. Is it subjective? Firefox appears to works better, with what appears to be faster responses. I also noted that Firefox did not lose responses. (I had the problem with the router in place that Firefox would hang, waiting for a return response. To get that final or missing response, I had to click on the refresh button. Now, it does not seem to hang).
Any comments.
Leslie
2008/2/4 Leslie Satenstein lsatenstein@yahoo.com:
Hi,
For the past 5 years I had the cable modem facing downstream VOIP motorola box and that was facing the netgear router (with wireless). Since my son moved out, three months ago and took the spare computer, I became a one computer owner.
I left the router in the loop, as I thought to obtain a second computer to replace what I gave away.
Yesterday, I bypassed the router, and noted a marked improvement in response times. Is it subjective? Firefox appears to works better, with what appears to be faster responses. I also noted that Firefox did not lose responses. (I had the problem with the router in place that Firefox would hang, waiting for a return response. To get that final or missing response, I had to click on the refresh button. Now, it does not seem to hang).
Any comments.
Leslie
Well technically you shouldn't see marked improvement.
But practically: * a router added another link between you and the modem * the router may not be all that good (introducing it's own latency)
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 06:56 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
Hi,
For the past 5 years I had the cable modem facing downstream VOIP motorola box and that was facing the netgear router (with wireless). Since my son moved out, three months ago and took the spare computer, I became a one computer owner.
I left the router in the loop, as I thought to obtain a second computer to replace what I gave away.
Yesterday, I bypassed the router, and noted a marked improvement in response times. Is it subjective? Firefox appears to works better, with what appears to be faster responses. I also noted that Firefox did not lose responses. (I had the problem with the router in place that Firefox would hang, waiting for a return response. To get that final or missing response, I had to click on the refresh button. Now, it does not seem to hang).
---- Try disabling ipv6 the next time you insert the router in between. If you don't have ipv6 DNS resolution, it can slow things up considerably.
Craig
On Monday 04 February 2008 10:06:36 am Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 06:56 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
[snip]
Yesterday, I bypassed the router, and noted a marked improvement in response times. Is it subjective? Firefox appears to works better, with what appears to be faster responses. I also noted that Firefox did not lose responses. (I had the problem with the router in place that Firefox would hang, waiting for a return response. To get that final or missing response, I had to click on the refresh button. Now, it does not seem to hang).
Try disabling ipv6 the next time you insert the router in between. If you don't have ipv6 DNS resolution, it can slow things up considerably.
It's long been reported that Firefox/SeaMonkey do not like IPv6 in Linux. It's a common optimization to disable it:
user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);
The OP may very well have a generalized networking problem, but if the symptoms (delays) are only seen in Firefox, the above may fix it.
Is that a Firefox setting?
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On Monday 04 February 2008 10:06:36 am Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 06:56 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
[snip]
Yesterday, I bypassed the router, and noted a marked improvement in response times. Is it subjective? Firefox appears to works better, with what appears to be faster responses. I also noted that Firefox did not lose responses. (I had the problem with the router in place that Firefox would hang, waiting for a return response. To get that final or missing response, I had to click on the refresh button. Now, it does not seem to hang).
Try disabling ipv6 the next time you insert the router in between. If you don't have ipv6 DNS resolution, it can slow things up considerably.
It's long been reported that Firefox/SeaMonkey do not like IPv6 in Linux. It's a common optimization to disable it:
user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);
The OP may very well have a generalized networking problem, but if the symptoms (delays) are only seen in Firefox, the above may fix it.
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On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:51:50 -0800 (PST) Bob Kinney bc98kinney@yahoo.com wrote:
Is that a Firefox setting?
Yes.
Enter "about:config" in the location bar, then filter for ipv6
Double-click the entry to change it.
2008/2/4 Leslie Satenstein lsatenstein@yahoo.com:
Yesterday, I bypassed the router, and noted a marked improvement in response times.
Some routers have limited CPU/memory, and this limitation manifests itself with a large number open connections, particularly when running p2p apps; interactive traffic is noticeably affected.