[wellylug] crazy changes, brain power needed

[Mark Foster]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Persian wrote:

> Hi David
>
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:06:13 +1200, David Antliff wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Persian wrote:
>>> My connection speed was fine all Friday and
>>> all day Saturday till I went to bed but I get up today
>>> to find everything is really slow. All OK on the
>>> other pc, tried swapping ports etc.
>
>>
>> DNS settings maybe? A bad DNS query can take several seconds to time
>> out. Are both computers using the same DNS servers?
>
>
> I asked my partner with the win box he says DNS not involved
> on the lan  ( ?)

DNS is the service that resolves internet names into numbers. You will 
have DNS, or you don't have working Internet.

DNS is set up automatically if you are using automatically assigned (DHCP 
or PPP ) addressing.

>> Are you actually getting low throughput (downloads are slow) or just a
>> high latency (i.e. lots of waiting for something)?
>
> he said to say everything works eventually, just very slow.

Sounds like a call to the ISP helpdesk is in order.

Mark.