Linux Workstation ADSL Networking Problems at Bezeqint

[shimi]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:

>
> Until recently, everything was nice and dandy, but starting from a few
> weeks
> ago (about two months I think) Firefox started to report something like
> "The
> connection was interrupted why loading the page. Press the button to try
> again." and the button then proceeds to load the page. Furthermore, urpmi
> (the
> Mandriva networked package installer) sometimes reports that it cannot find
> packages on mirror.isoc.org.il, only to find them later upon a retry.
>
> Another possible hint is that using svn checkout on http-based
> svn.berlios.de
> URLs such as http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fc-solve/trunk/ has been
> taking a lot of time on the WinXP machine (also connected via Ethernet),
> while
> using the https:// URLs was OK.
>
> I've also had a case of wget -c restarting a file transfer from the
> beginning
> because it could not continue it from where it ended on a halted transfer.
>

I know this might sound weird, but I would try to reduce the MTU to 1400 or
even 1300 and see if it helps. Start with tehe Linux as it's much simpler
than in Windows:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400

-- Shimi
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