I have been having some very weird network problems. I noticed the internet to be very slow at my schools campus. Webpages take awhile to load, chat services are laggy and take a long time to connect, and I can only connect to the server of a game I play on like 20% of the time and when I can, it has incredibly high packet loss. I was playing around awhile ago and I decided to install linux on a dual boot to play around with. I noticed right away that the internet is the speed it should be, pages load instantly, I can connect to chat servers right away, and I was actually able to play my game under linux with a program called WineX. At first I thought the school was blocking ports to play thegame on, but I could connect sometimes and then being able to connect all the time at full functionality in linux killed that idea. I played around with the MTU size in windows for awhile but that never seemed to have any affect either. This really has me baffeled I have no idea what could cause windows internet to have such high packetloses and linux internet to be perfect. Does anyone have any idea on how I might fix this so windows internet will run at the speed it should?
Slow network in windows, fast in linux.
- Thread starter QuimbyDogg2
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Oh, something else I forgot to add. In windows and linux when I ping something such as www.yahoo.com I get 100% packet loss, yet I can visit the website under linux and it loads instantly.
SoulAssassin
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A lot of sites block ICMP. Try pinging www.microsoft.com, will fail every time. Any chance you've got Kazaa or such running under windows that's choking your up the river bandwidth?
Nope not running any P2P. It is really weird because sometime certain webpages will load fast and sometimes they will load really slow and sometimes I have some things going fast and others going slow. Example just checking and going to the forum now the webpages loaded right away. While I was doing this I was trying to connect to my game server to play a game--it is timing out.
Side note, I thought yahoo was pingable. When I setup a new network at my home I was able to ping it unless they just changed it recently. I have tried to ping a lot of sites at the CMD and I get 100% packetloss everytime even if that webpage loads right away for me.
Side note, I thought yahoo was pingable. When I setup a new network at my home I was able to ping it unless they just changed it recently. I have tried to ping a lot of sites at the CMD and I get 100% packetloss everytime even if that webpage loads right away for me.
Yahoo doesn't block ICMP.
Does this problem afflict other Windows PCs, or is it only yours? If it affects others, then you should probably ask the campus IT department for recommendations.
As far as I know I am the only one with this problem. I really have no idea what could cause this. I tried to email the tech guy at this school but I never get responses back. I am really clueless about how it could be so slow and then run at normal speed in linux. I am going to reinstall XP in a few days because I have another harddrive coming, maybe a clean install will help clear things up.
Maybe your school is using something like Packetter. It watches the types of packets going down the network and blocks/slows various types. That's how we control web surfing, p2p and such to make sure the legitimate users get the bandwidth they need. I suppose your school could have something that lowers the amount of bandwidth each Windows box gets, but doesn't effect Linux. Or I could be totally wrong...
You probably have spyware or some adware running on your PC. goto download one of the free spyware remover like spybot or ad-aware and you should see if there are those nasty things installed.
Even without spyware, Linux will usually be a tad faster (from what I noticed). Better TCP stack I guess.
I bet yopu do have some spyware slowing u down, so hit adaware and spybot (then spywareblaster to prevent them from even coming back) and u be all set!
I bet yopu do have some spyware slowing u down, so hit adaware and spybot (then spywareblaster to prevent them from even coming back) and u be all set!
Wow, what an insightful and helpful reply.
Uninstall and reinstall your tcp/ip stack and NIC, see if that helps.
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