Strange Ubuntu Wired Internet problem

[Jimmmac1]

Hi all

I know this is the Linux Mint forum, but I thought someone might have some ideas. I am pretty much out and no-one from the Ubuntu forums has answered. I just downloaded my Linux Mint 12 and am planning to change distro's probably today/tomorrow. This is a very strange problem. All of a sudden in the last few days I have been having a problem with my Internet connectivity. I get a lot of 'Looking up' and 'Waiting for ...' when trying to access websites. I have the problem with both Firefox, Chrome and Thunderbird. I have a dual boot machine and when I tried my Windows 7 yesterday, everything was very quick. So this looks only like a Linux problem. I tried changing the settings to OpenDNS and there is no difference. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

JIm Macdonald
Soon to be Linux MInt user.

[spandey]

From a terminal

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sudo ifconfig


Post the output here..

[Jimmmac1]

Hi Oscar.

Thanks for your quick response. Here is the output.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:46:8d:f5:1b
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1074867 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:500474 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1622936882 (1.6 GB) TX bytes:33596587 (33.5 MB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x8000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:f2:a4:98:f2
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0xda00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:155860 (155.8 KB) TX bytes:155860 (155.8 KB)

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.24.1 Bcast:172.16.24.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.122.1 Bcast:172.16.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2008 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Thanks again.

Jim

[spandey]

Those looks alright. Have you tried pinging common sites and seen the result?

[Jimmmac1]

HI Oscar

Yes, and everything looks fine. Here is a tracert from Windows 7 to show you the path to Yahoo. Looks pretty much the same in Linux.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Jimmmac>tracert www.yahoo.com

Tracing route to any-fp3-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com [98.139.183.24]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 34 ms 28 ms 30 ms 98.231.72.1
3 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms te-9-4-ur01.pontevedra.fl.jacksvil.comcast.net [
68.85.94.93]
4 14 ms 21 ms 11 ms te-0-4-0-12-ar02.westside.fl.jacksvil.comcast.ne
t [68.85.225.73]
5 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms te-1-0-0-5-cr01.charlotte.nc.ibone.comcast.net [
68.86.93.177]
6 25 ms 23 ms 24 ms pos-3-14-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [
68.86.85.213]
7 25 ms 23 ms 23 ms 64.209.107.53
8 54 ms 53 ms 66 ms 64.215.30.22
9 55 ms 54 ms 55 ms ge-0-0-0.pat1.bfz.yahoo.com [216.115.97.199]
10 54 ms 53 ms 54 ms ae-4.msr1.bf1.yahoo.com [216.115.100.25]
11 55 ms 54 ms 54 ms xe-5-0-0.clr1-a-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.128.9]

12 55 ms 57 ms 55 ms et-17-1.fab6-1-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.128.47]

13 54 ms 54 ms 53 ms po-14.bas2-7-prd.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.129.227]

14 194 ms 210 ms 127 ms ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.183.24]

Trace complete.

I am creating my MInt CD now. Just a little off topic, is there any reason you can think of that I can't do a 64bit Mint on my computer? It is about 5 years old, but has 4 gb of memory. Thanks for all the help.

Jim

[spandey]

What is your CPU model/type? 64 bit is based on CPU not RAM? If you have Core 2 Duo or newer you can have 64 bit?

I am running 64 bit with Core2Duo and 3 GB RAM.

[Jimmmac1]

Hi Oscar

That could be a problem. I have a AMD Sempron Processor, 3400+, 2ghz. Might not be strong enough. Thanks.

Jim

[spandey]

It's not strength but no of CPU cores?

You will be fine with 32-bit as well. Don't forget to try LiveCD first before install. Check your net connection in LiveCD see how it works.

[Jimmmac1]

Yep, I just cut my cd and will try it now to see what the difference it. I will report back when done. Thanks again.

Jim

[Jimmmac1]

Hi Oscar?

Well that settles it. Mint Live is lightning fast. Something wrong with Ubuntu talking to the dns servers. Here is the Mint live traceroute to yahoo.

mint@mint ~ $ traceroute www.yahoo.com
traceroute to www.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 10.472 ms 10.758 ms 11.081 ms
2 98.231.72.1 (98.231.72.1) 28.410 ms 29.499 ms 39.953 ms
3 te-9-4-ur01.pontevedra.fl.jacksvil.comcast.net (68.85.94.93) 19.773 ms 20.068 ms 20.343 ms
4 te-0-4-0-12-ar02.westside.fl.jacksvil.comcast.net (68.85.225.73) 29.643 ms 29.898 ms 30.152 ms
5 te-1-0-0-5-cr01.charlotte.nc.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.93.177) 36.037 ms 37.062 ms 37.351 ms
6 pos-3-14-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.213) 38.338 ms 26.265 ms 25.609 ms
7 64.209.107.53 (64.209.107.53) 30.434 ms 31.483 ms 32.694 ms
8 64.215.30.22 (64.215.30.22) 59.765 ms 60.737 ms 61.038 ms
9 ge-0-0-0.pat2.bfz.yahoo.com (216.115.97.209) 67.038 ms 67.298 ms 67.561 ms
10 ae-3.msr2.bf1.yahoo.com (216.115.100.31) 65.079 ms ae-4.msr2.bf1.yahoo.com (216.115.100.73) 66.584 ms ae-3.msr2.bf1.yahoo.com (216.115.100.31) 66.234 ms
11 xe-5-0-0.clr2-a-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.128.11) 67.715 ms xe-4-0-0.clr2-a-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.232.83) 69.428 ms xe-3-0-0.clr2-a-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.232.99) 70.316 ms
12 et-18-25.fab2-1-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.128.55) 56.578 ms et-18-25.fab6-1-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.128.63) 55.970 ms et-18-25.fab5-1-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.128.61) 55.817 ms
13 po-13.bas2-7-prd.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.129.211) 60.397 ms po-15.bas2-7-prd.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.129.243) 58.808 ms po-10.bas2-7-prd.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.129.163) 57.811 ms


I don't see much of a difference. Interesting. I had to install traceroute. Any good places you would recommend to see how to change from Ubuntu 11.10 to Linux Mint 12 on a dual boot Windows 7/Linux computer? Thanks again for all the help.

Jim

[spandey]

Any good places you would recommend to see how to change from Ubuntu 11.10 to Linux Mint 12 on a dual boot Windows 7/Linux computer? Thanks again for all the help.

Did you mean convert your Ubuntu to Mint?

[Jimmmac1]

Yep, I am backing up my two user directories now and in about 15 minutes I start a new install.

[Jimmmac1]

Hi Oscar?

Well I am Minting now and am starting to do my setup. Web access is no-wait. Looks good so far, but I probably have a lot to learn. Thanks again. Every time I have posted to this forum, I have gotten quick answers. Great community. Talk to you soon.

Jim