Slow browsing

[Wegas]

Hi,
I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop and I connect to the internet via Vigor 2700VGST router. I use Kde 4.3 and have a fully updated system. I have been experiencing really slow web browsing in PCLinuxOS. Recently I booted Win XP on the same laptop in VirtualBox and tried to load the same web sites (using google Chrome) and found out that it was much faster. Tried about 20 sites in both windows and Linux and found out it took 3-5x longer for pages to load in PCLinuxOS (using latest FF). Otherwise, when downloading files, torrents etc. I'm getting full speed (3Mbit/s). I tried deleting and reconfiguring my internet profiles but with no luck at all. Also it doesn't really matter which browser I use, all are painfully slow. Ping is less than 1 msec on average so that should be OK. Even my desktop computer that is connected via eth behaves the same under PclinuxOS. Simply there is some kind of lag that I can't explain which causes that when I hit a link or website nothing happens for a few seconds (up to 10) and then the site loads in a couple of seconds.

Hope someone can help,

thank you

update: Firefox was slow even when I created a new account, however I just tried the latest Opera and it seems fast enough, almost as fast as in XP, but it is useless for me since it can't properly display many sites a visit. For example check out cnn.com - I don't know if it's just me but it is very distorted and almost unreadable in Opera. Btw. Opera in XP works flawlessly and fast. My experience is that all browsers work much better under Windows than Linux..can anyone verify that?

[Ramchu]

 Don't know if this will help, but in control panel ( wrench & screwdriver- not in circle ) go to network and connectivity>click the + on left
then click the +beside network settings then click proxy and see how you connect to the internet.

  Mine is set:  connect directly to the internet

[Wegas]

I am connected to the internet directly.

[Ramchu]

How is Firefox set to connect to the internet ?

  Click the edit tab at the top left of the browser and look for preferences then go to advanced then network and look for connection and click settings .

  set it to connect directly or auto detect proxy for this network

[Wegas]

thank you for replies, but it still takes 10-20 seconds to load a single website in firefox...  

could you please check cnn.com in Opera if it displays the site correctly?

[Ramchu]

 Your welcome !
 When was the last time that you cleaned out your-  cookies,history,cache - ect. ?

 Sorry I don't have Opera installed - I don't care for that browser.

[Wegas]

long time ago..but I did now and it's still very slow except I don't have any history 

[Ramchu]

 We'll I am out of suggestions, sorry that I couldn't help but it was worth a shot !
 I am sure that someone will come along with some help.
 
 Have a good day,
 Ramchu

[Texstar]

Speed tip here YMMV:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,66299.0.html

You can try turning off ipv6 in firefox about:config might help.

Also changing your dns server in your router to opendns might help too.

Sorry never experienced your issue. Browsing the net is nifty sweet on my dsl line.

[scoundrel]

also if your running any addons in your browser you might try and shut them off one at a time and restart browser and try again

[Wegas]

Thanks Tex, your tip helped a bit, Opera is now really fast, Firefox - hard to say really if 15 secs instead of 20 is a big improvement but it seems like I have to say goodbye to FF for now. If I only knew why Opera can't display some websites correctly like in Win... Anyone else experiencing the same problem? (like CNN website for example..)

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[coolbreeze]

Just loaded Opera, so far i no distortions,tried a few of the regular sites.

[Wegas]

hmm thank you for help Coolbreeze, have you tried specifically accuweather.com? I wonder what can cause such a behavior... One more thing I've noticed is that when I loaded CNN website a while ago it displayed it just fine; then, a couple minutes later, it was broken again :/

[coolbreeze]

hmm thank you for help Coolbreeze, have you tried specifically accuweather.com? I wonder what can cause such a behavior... One more thing I've noticed is that when I loaded CNN website a while ago it displayed it just fine; then, a couple minutes later, it was broken again :/

Still no problems, loads webs fine and clean.

[Wegas]

I solved the problem with incorrect website loading in opera by turning off the "fit the width" setting and deleting the "block content" list.