Internet sucks

[Legg83]

This is kind of weird, but with every version of Linux that I have ever installed, I have always had these problems. I have used Redhat 5.1 through 7.0, and SuSe 7.1, as well as Mandrake 6.0 and up. Every time I use linux, with the default configuration, I have problems with the Internet. Sometimes things are fine, other times its bad. Example, there are certian people on IRC that I can NEVER recieve files from over dcc, regardless of what client I am using. Another example is every download site I could find for Limeware I could only get to like 50k, and then it would stall and wouldn't go any further. I have problems like this all the time. Knapster never seems to have a problem, but my big ones are irc and sometimes when I download with a browser it stalls.

See, what confuses me is that I can turn right around, boot into windows, download from the SAME location with absolutly no errors/stalls/whatever. IRC works fine, and my browser downloads work fine in windows... but with EVERY linux distribution I have tried on this computer it sucks with IRC and browsers.

No matter how trivial you might think your solutions are, please give me some input, I'm open to any suggestions and stuff.

Thanks.

[MBMarduk]

That sounds purty sucky baaad.
I can't come up with much...but are you using a Winmodem or Softmodem?

Prolly not, since you ran OLD RedHat and OLD MDk in the times before Win/Linmodem support.

Got any more info for us?

GL.

[Legg83]

No, I do not have a winmodem... I have an ISA 56k Zoom Faxmodem... its a lucent chipset.

Only other information I have is that it happens with the default configuration on all distributions I've had. It doesn't sound like its a line problem, seeing as how it works fine in windows. maybe an ISP problem? i doubt it. I don't know, it just sucks.

[fancypiper]

Try setting your modem's baudrate to 57600.

I live in a rural area and get better transfers than with the default of 115200.

You can also play with the mtu and mru in the /etc/ppp/options file to tweak it to your connection.

I consistently get much better connection rates and transfers in Linux than in Windows. :confused: