[ale] Routing slow on certain sites

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Mon Jan 17 14:23:10 EST 2005


The MTU on the Win box could be too high.  If the inside interface on 
the Linux router is less than 1500 then set the WinXP box to match it.
Dow


Jim Seymour wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:09:05PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
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>>The most common message while waiting (forever) is "Opening page
>>........" The browser is IE 6. I'll have a chat with the girlfriend
>>about installing a different browser. The slowness goes way beyond
>>aol.com. Some other sites that wouldn't load on the Win box that I could
>>turn around and load immediately on the Linux router are:
>>
>>www.star94.com
>>www.morningstar.com
>>www.half.com
>>www.bankofamerica.com
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>>I turned off the "QoS Packet Scheduler" on the Win box to see if could
>>be part of the problem....no difference. Any other ideas in the
>>meantime?
>>
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>I should also add that if I disable the lan connection on the Win XP box
>I can connect to all of these sites quickly using a dial-up connection.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim Seymour
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