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Network Slowness

Asked by Bussterz

I couldn't seem to find anything on here with my problem. Basically i've got 9.04 installed and lately my the icon in the top bar with my wireless network alternates between 92+% signal strength and for hours at a time will shoot down to 52% exactly.

Then all web-sites load extremely slowly and any downloads I've got will instantly grind to a near halt.

But on my windows OS i don't get anything of the sort, runs very fast all day everyday.

Is this a problem with my Ubuntu setup? My router? or what. I'm totally stumped here :(

You guys need any other information to help with this?

Thanks in advance

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Jim J (morlockhq) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of the following commands typed in a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal):

ifconfig -a

Then use ethtool in the terminal to give information about your network interfaces (eth0, eth1, etc.) that showed up from the previous command. You can ignore l0 and pan0, but give the output for the rest:

sudo ethtool eth0

sudo ethtool eth1

...

Also let's look at your routing table, using the route command:

route -n

Now let's ping your gateway (router). This oneliner will extract the configured gateway that the route command showed and send 10 packets to it:

ping -c 10 $(route -n | grep UG | awk '{print $2}')

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