Firefox random timeout & slow internet on vista & ubuntu

[ABH83]

I'm experiencing a rather odd problem with Firefox on Vista and Ubuntu:

- Certain sites timeout or loose connection: "Error establishing a database connection".

- Random sites need several minutes to load. Sometimes I have to close Firefox and restart it to be able to load the page again... (until the problem reappears).

IE7 on the other hand is working flawlessly.

I've disabled IPV6 in Firefox but that didn't help either.

Below are my speedtest.net results:


IE7


Firefox



I'm at a loss. What could be the issue?

Thx in advance!
ABH83

[cksboy15]

open up you command prompt and type ipconfig /flushdns it helped me a little when i was experiencing the same issues but then I found out my isp was doing maitenance.

[Taxmancometh]

Disable ipv6 in Vista. Go to the control panel / network connections. Doubt it will help, but do it anyway.

Next, turn off all add-ons in Firefox, if you have any and restart Firefox. Still happening?

If so, scan that sucker!

Your speeds are fine, but that lag crap you describe isn't normal, especially if you say IE works "flawlessly" (But ubuntu isn't either?) Otherwise I'd tell you to reset the modem and check you cables and look for crappy connections or splitters. There should be a minimum of three in line with a cable modem. At least that's what they tell me.


Actually, what is your ISP speed suppose to be anyway. 6 MbPS I bet? Even though it say 15, that's what I get. Not sure about Slovakia .

Can you give us some site that do this?

What version of Firefox?

[RicheemxX]

Speed results aren't really much of a diagnostic, run some pings to the sites or tracert something like that. Since this is happening across two different OS's I would suspect the sites themselves. The other suspect would be a common FF add-on, maybe something you are using with both OSs? Try FF with a new profile, its not likely an issue there but it rules out a bad add-on or something of that nature.

[ABH83]

Thx for all of your responses! I'm going through each one of them. It seems it might be a settings error on the router or its time to upgrade my cable modem. I've been told to submit my old modem for a new one free of charge!

[ABH83]

btw here are my ping and tracert results:

from TraceRT - Traceroute & Network Tools

 
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 1  ev1s-66-98-216-1.theplanet.com (66.98.216.1)  1.599 ms  1.130 ms  0.258 ms
 2  et2-13.ibr01.hstntx1.theplanet.com (207.218.223.21)  0.195 ms  0.210 ms  0.138 ms
 3  et1-2.ibr02.hstntx1.theplanet.com (70.87.253.162)  0.194 ms  0.158 ms  0.162 ms
 4  209.66.99.93.available.above.net (209.66.99.93)  0.489 ms  0.506 ms  0.478 ms
 5  ge-0-2-0.mpr3.iah1.above.net (64.125.26.221)  0.788 ms  0.810 ms  0.691 ms
     MPLS Label=479393 CoS=7 TTL=1 S=0
 6  ge-0-3-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net (64.125.25.113)  75.281 ms  27.533 ms  27.473 ms
     MPLS Label=160794 CoS=7 TTL=1 S=0
 7  so-0-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net (64.125.27.58)  147.847 ms  99.498 ms  100.822 ms
 8  uk-lon01a-ri1-ge-1-0-0.aorta.net (195.66.224.89)  99.737 ms  99.638 ms  99.533 ms
 9  uk-lon01a-rd3-s-4-0.aorta.net (213.46.174.173)  99.670 ms  99.584 ms  99.532 ms
10  at-vie01a-rd1-gig-6-2.aorta.net (213.46.160.202)  127.384 ms  127.371 ms  127.414 ms
11  213.46.173.114 (213.46.173.114)  127.360 ms  127.428 ms  345.848 ms
12  213.47.218.180 (213.47.218.180)  127.541 ms  127.563 ms  127.532 ms
13  at-vie-pe-cr12a-ge-16-1-1.upc.at (213.47.218.210)  128.073 ms  128.013 ms  128.427 ms
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Not a pro but it looks fine to me.

Hope it helps!

[buzzkila]

Not to brag or anything but here's my speed as of like 5 minutes ago. I have a 20/2 connection with turbo boost.

Speed test statistics
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Download speed: 6372240 bps
Upload speed: 1766160 bps
Download quality of service: 90 %
Upload quality of service: 97 %
Download test type: socket
Upload test type: socket
Maximum TCP delay: 70 ms
Average download pause: 4 ms
Minimum round trip time to server: 68 ms
Average round trip time to server: 69 ms
Estimated download bandwidth: 36800000bps <<<---Not bad eh?
Route concurrency: 5.775049
Download TCP forced idle: 79 %
Maximum route speed: 7710000bps

Detailed analysis : MyConnection Detail Analysis

You can find the test at ISPgeeks.com - Broadband Speed Test, Voip Diagnostics, Internet Bandwidth Forums just click on the diagnostics tools tab and you will see this test called TCP Speed Test and several others including one thats good for voip or ventrillo. After you run your TCP test check the Route Performance and see where the bottleneck is. I think you can even have the results emailed to your ISP.