Internet surfing really slowly ... ... ...

[wannessmet]

Very weird problem. I'm using a Via Epia M1000 Mainboard with Via Nemiah 999MHz CPU and 512MB RAM So not really a fast setup.

But the internet connection is really really really slowly. I don't expect mind blowing performances but this is not normal... I have to wait more than a minute to get knoppix.net/forum on my screen. Whether I use Iseweasel or Konqueror or Lynx in a terminal doesn't really matter. Equally slow.

When I boot in winxp everything is normal with acceptable speeds, again not blazing but acceptable.

The bizarre thing? When I use "apt-get update" eg. I'm getting speeds at about 490kB/S so my box is able to communicate at "high speed" but is refusing it when surfing the internet.


Can someone perhaps tell me how I can copy my hardware configuration and paste it here? Might be of some help. I'm using Knoppix 5.1.1 EN right now

Can't I use something like cat /proc/"hardewaresetup" > SetupTextTile ? I''m not really a diehard geek so no idea how to do that

>EDIT: I tried /proc/kmsg but that seams to be really long and I can't get it in a text-file with

>EDIT 2

I've don a HDinstall, same problem and:

Getting smarter every minute: let's use lspci -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device aa01
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] (prog-if 0
0 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: e6000000-e7ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-e3ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (
rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
(rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
(rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
(rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20 [EHC
I])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at e8001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device aa01
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/
C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device aa01
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at e000 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 A
C97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device aa01
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine II] Embeded Ethernet Con troller on VT8235
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Memory at e8002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated Cast leRock graphics
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e7000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

[johnrw]

What does ifconfig show?
dmesg | grep eth

Look for things like 10 mbit or half duplex etc...

Although those things are for hardware checking... and if apt-get works at acceptable levels... your hardware/device driver is probably fine.
Doing a apt-get update is fine. If you do an apt-get upgrade, you will likely trash the installation. So don't do that. If you have already... well I would save the /home files you need, and re install. I did after apt-get upgrade messed mine up.