Speed up network connection by naming your machines

Ubuntu 11.10 seems to have a problem with the network interface. When I loaded mine my system slowed regarding network connections. SpeedTest.net showed my connection was still the same speed, but lookups of information was slow. Tested my DNS server and it was same speed.

Solved by adding my default route device to my /etc/hosts table. My router is at 192.168.1.1 and it seemed the route daemon was trying to lookup the router name for everything. So giving it a name speed the process up considerably.

Perhaps the router routines need to ignore names. If run 'route' on the command line and it pauses before it displays the information, you may have this problem too. Try adding your default route gateway to the /etc/hosts file to solve.