http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Extremely slow internet in Ubuntu 8.04 en Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:23:29 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/extremely-slow-internet-in-ubuntu-804#post-25558 Wed, 21 May 2008 13:19:26 +0000 bamsan 25558@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>You have to open your /etc/sysctl.conf file. </p> <p>sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf </p> <p>Scroll to the bottom and just add these lines to it.</p> <p>net.core.rmem_default = 524288<br /> net.core.rmem_max = 524288<br /> net.core.wmem_default = 524288<br /> net.core.wmem_max = 524288<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 87380 524288<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 524288<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 524288 524288 524288<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337 = 1<br /> net.ipv4.ip_no_pmtu_disc = 0<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_fack = 1<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1<br /> net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0<br /> net.ipv4.route.flush = 1</p> <p>run the sysctl to take effect.</p> <p>sudo sysctl -p</p> <p>That's it. It works with my adsl connection. For complete article about this, u can google 'speedup ubuntu'<br /> There are numerous blogs explaining things like this</p> <p>hope this helps </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/extremely-slow-internet-in-ubuntu-804#post-24588 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:55:51 +0000 Xeeon 24588@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>All right, I installed Ubuntu 8.04, and unlike 7.04, I have a huge problem with slow internet...</p> <p>I've disabled IPv6 in Ubuntu and Firefox, and it still goes really slow (5 minutes to load google..)</p> <p>someone help? </p>