[CS-FSLUG] Wget getting sloooowwww

[Robert W.]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 18:46 -0500, Don Parris wrote:
> A friend of mine is running a dual-boot WinXP & SUSE 9.2 system.
> He is able to get to User Friendly (for example) in about 2 seconds
> using Firefox under X.  Same for WinXP.  Wget takes 30+ seconds, and
> frequently times out.  Ping takes at least 10 secs to start pinging,
> but dig takes a second or so.  WinXP's ping is blazing, as well.
> 
> Any ideas on what gives with the slowness of wget/ping under SUSE?

I seem to recall similar problems being caused by the MRU size. Is MRU  
the right acronym? Sorry, I'm not very knowledgable with networking.  
I'm going from memory of things that came from the SuSE mailing list.

As I recall, the issue was that Windows and Linux had different MRU  
sizes. Windows matched a router, but Linux did not. So Linux networking  
appeared to be very slow. Maybe this'll jog somebody's memory on how to  
fix the problem.

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Robert W.
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