very slow internet on 11.04 on advent laptop

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; cat /etc/resolv.conf

Thanks

yeah sure here it is thanks

strachg@Graham-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; cat /etc/resolv.conf
[sudo] password for strachg:
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:03:0d:94:6d:2f
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:43 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:fa000000-fa000fff memory:f4000000-f401ffff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       bus info: usb@2:3
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:10:60:98:c1:ef
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt73usb driverversion=2.6.38-11-generic firmware=1.7 ip=192.168.1.6 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-ia32:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-3.2-ia32:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-4.0-noarch:qt4-3.1-ia32:qt4-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 192.168.1.1
strachg@Graham-laptop:~$

ok try:

gksudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf

Delete all the text and add these 2 lines:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Save the new file, close gedit then retry the web. Is it better?

Hi Andrew, sorry for the delay yes its seems as fast as windows now. thank you very much will it stay like that when i reboot now.

thanks

Graham

No you will need to put the settings in network manager, set the interface to DHCP (address only) then set the DNS to:

8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

This will make the setting stick between reboots, basically your ISP's DNS is slow. Changing the DNS to google's public DNS has sped things up for you

Thank you Andrew thats it done i mark it as problem solved.

thanks

Graham