I know slow connection issues keep popping up on various forums every now and then, and wanted to share my most recent experience.
My connection (ISP: Comhem Sweden, 24Mbit) slowed down and pages got stuck at ”Sending request” in Chrome (11.x and 12.x) refusing to load at all, and no error messages showing. Occasionally pages would load, but incredibly slowly (several minutes for an ordinary newspaper for example)
For those of you who doesn’t want the whole story: I finally set the IP of the secondary DNS as primary, and vice versa, in the router. Problem disappeared instantly.
What confused me most was that the problem appeared only on one computer, a desktop AMD64 with 2GB RAM and a Belkin wifi USB dongle, running Linux Mint Debian Edition. Two notebooks (one XP and one Vista) and an Android phone (HTC Desire) was running fine all along. To start with, I tried a bunch of random actions:
- Clearing browser cache etc
- Changing browser to Firefox
- Disabling the “Predict network actions to improve page load performance” option in Chrome
- Restarting the computer
- Resetting the (Cisco-something) router. Also tried Changing channel on the router, trying different encryptions (WEP, WPA…) and disabling the firewall.
- Moving the wifi antenna in order to improve signal
- Disabling the “Predict network actions to improve page load performance” option in Chrome
- Adding “options single-request” to /etc/resolv.conf. I don’t fully understand what this does, but I’m sure Google will help you find out if you are interested.
Any thoughts/comments on this? Similar experiences?