On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > Until recently, everything was nice and dandy, but starting from a few > weeks > ago (about two months I think) Firefox started to report something like > "The > connection was interrupted why loading the page. Press the button to try > again." and the button then proceeds to load the page. Furthermore, urpmi > (the > Mandriva networked package installer) sometimes reports that it cannot find > packages on mirror.isoc.org.il, only to find them later upon a retry. > > Another possible hint is that using svn checkout on http-based > svn.berlios.de > URLs such as http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fc-solve/trunk/ has been > taking a lot of time on the WinXP machine (also connected via Ethernet), > while > using the https:// URLs was OK. > > I've also had a case of wget -c restarting a file transfer from the > beginning > because it could not continue it from where it ended on a halted transfer. > I know this might sound weird, but I would try to reduce the MTU to 1400 or even 1300 and see if it helps. Start with tehe Linux as it's much simpler than in Windows: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400 -- Shimi
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