[wellylug] Linksys router connection

[Pete Black]

Hi Lyndsay,

The DHCP setting should not be responsible for a drop in speed.

It is possible that there is some DNS-related problem causing timeouts 
when trying to look up names, but thats about the only thing that 
springs to mind.

If you could open a terminal and type 'ping google.co.nz', and check to 
see if there is a delay before the packets show up on the screen  - you 
should see output almost immediately - let it run for a while, then 
press ctrl-c to stop it, any packet loss on the network, that might 
provide a further clue.

I have also noticed appalling performance from my telstra cable over the 
last few days, with a number of outages, and  a ~4 hour outage on monday 
morning. It could be that your PC is configured to use telstras DNS 
servers and they arent working properly for some reason, while your 
laptop has a different setting.

I have noticed that 203.96.152.4 is extremely slow to service requests 
at the moment. If you can locate the DNS server setting in your 
settings, you could try changing it to 203.96.152.12 and seeing if that 
helps, but otherwise hopefully it will come right when telstra fix their 
network properly.
Hope that helps

-Pete

> Hi everyone
>
> I have Ubuntu 6.06 on my desktop pc and in my Sytem/Administration/Networking my ethernet
> connection is set up as Static IP Address. I know the address and
> all the other info i.e Gateway etc. I have cable broadband.
>
> I have a laptop with only XP on it which is wireless capable, and I wanted
> to get a wireless router to use the laptop around the house.
>
> I bought a new Linksys WRT54GC Ver 2.0 wirelss router with 4 wired ports.
>
> On the laptop I opened Moz Firefox and typed in the address of the router
> and when the Linksys window opened I typed in all the other details and
> the laptop was online with a strong signal strength.
>
> With my Ubuntu desktop I was unable to get Firefox to open when I put in
> the IP of the router so I could not get online with it. Error message
> was something like IP Address could not be found.
>
> A friend came round who has done a little linux. He looked at my
> System/Networking window and where the ethernet connection said
> Static IP, he changed that to DHCP and then the Linksys window
> opened immediately. I cant remember which programme it opened with
> so guess it was Firefox but not sure. He entered all the info, secured
> the network with name and password and the pc was online too.
>
> All good I thought but, the pc is SO  SLOW to connect to mail and webpages
> MUCH slower than before whereas the lappy is pretty snappy!
>
> Is there a reason for this reduced speed? Did he do the right thing choosing DHCP?
> Is it a lot more complicated that that and technical things beyond my skills
> need to be done to configure my Ubuntu desktop?
>
> Thanks a lot for any assistance,
>
> best regards
> Lyndsay
> PS I did Google this for quite some time but really only found very complicated
> postings and thought I could ask you guys first.
>