slow surfing broadband under FC5

[Jay Cliburn]

Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> Hope someone can help.
> 
> I have 512k ADSL broadband and connected to the internet via a D-Link
> modem/touter. A laptop with XP and everything is fine on that.
> <http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#>Another laptop with a dual boot
> system. I have Win XP (and again everything
> is fine) and FC5.
> 
> The problem is when I am surfing the internet under FC5 Linux. Certain 
> sites
> are fine, but some (google.com, www.smh.com.au, etc,  to name a few) just
> don't load, sometime, it keeps "looking up ... ' or  'connecting to ...'.
> sometime, it stoped with ' loading problem ...', most of the time it just
> stops after loading the banners.
> 
> the ethenet connection obtains auto dynemic ip address.
> 
> Any thoughts anyone? I am using the Firefox 1.5.0.7 browser.
> Yuandan
> 

As root, execute this command:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0

Then retry your stalled connections.