Speed up Internet & Google Earth

[richbarna]

This isn't anything new or my idea, I found it while searching through some of the old ubuntuforums posts.

It worked for me, it may work for you too.

Basically you disable ipV6 which apparently conflicts with ipV4, I'm no expert on the whys or hows but like I said, it worked for me.

1. Open your Gnome Terminal/ KDE Konsole and type :-
For Gnome

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

or For KDE

kdesu kate /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

2. Kate or Gedit will open and show you this file :-
(scroll down to see what to copy and paste)

# These are the standard aliases for devices and kernel drivers. # This file does not need to be modified. # # Please file a bug against module-init-tools if a package needs a entry # in this file. # network protocols ################################################## ######## alias net-pf-1 unix alias net-pf-2 ipv4 alias net-pf-3 ax25 alias net-pf-4 ipx alias net-pf-5 appletalk alias net-pf-6 netrom alias net-pf-7 bridge alias net-pf-8 atm alias net-pf-9 x25 # 1, 2, 3 new lines alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off -- alias net-pf-10 off -- add these three lines here. alias ipv6 off -- #alias net-pf-10 ipv6 =========comment (put #) the original line alias net-pf-11 rose alias net-pf-12 decnet # 13 NETBEUI alias net-pf-15 af_key alias net-pf-16 af_netlink alias net-pf-17 af_packet

3. Now "Save" and "Reboot"

There's another way too: instead of changing aliases file, create fie named bad_list in /etc/modprobe.d containing this line:

alias net-pf-10 off

This method will work even if /etc/modprobe.d/aliases get replaced at some update.

Like I said these are NOT my ideas, I did them and now Google Earth and Firefox are noticeably faster for me.

[loell]

yes, it is noticeably faster.. thanks

[catlett]

Thanks Rich.
This is the best tweak yet. I have done all the other changes to about:config but this IS noticeable.

Thanks again for letting us in on your find.

Regards, Catlett

[arochester]

Good Heavens! What a difference!

[WADemosthenes]

Why does it work?

[T700]

No idea how this works, but it certainly seems faster.

Paul

[Drakkor]

This for dial up or broadband ?

[Chris03]

Nice!

[catlett]

Originally Posted by Drakkor This for dial up or broadband ?

I don't know. I have broadband and it works. Also my /etc/hosts file has a bunch of parameters for Ipv6 (I'll post the file). It appears you should forget adding parameters and just disable it altogether because disabling it with Rich's tweak has given me the best result.

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

[Frank Golden]

Originally Posted by catlett I don't know. I have broadband and it works. Also my /etc/hosts file has a bunch of parameters for Ipv6 (I'll post the file). It appears you should forget adding parameters and just disable it altogether because disabling it with Rich's tweak has given me the best result.

Please explain in more detail (disable how etc). Do you mean disable the hosts file.? Thanks