[gentoo-user] How to troubleshoot ISP connection

[gentoo-user] How to troubleshoot ISP connection

[Mick]

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Hi All,

I find myself in Geneva for the weekend, where I am using a WiFi connection.  
The ISP is bluewin.ch and the speed is quite low.  On average I have seen max 
download speeds of 448Kbps, while a stream download from e.g. apple trailers 
soon settles down to around 93kbps.

Trying to emerge fails to establish an rsync connection.

Trying to stream internet radio fails every time and as if this wasn't bad I 
cannot connect to www.britishairways.com to book online for my return flight!

My friends WinXP does not seem to have such problems.  He can connect to 
www.britishairways.com and this has confused me and perplexed me a lot.  
What's with his Windoze machine that allows him to connect to websites that I 
cannot?
==========================================================================
lappy (0.0.0.0)(tos=0x0 psize=64 bitpattern=0x00)      Sun Oct 29 18:54:13 
2006
Keys:  Help   Display mode   Restart statistics   Order of fields   quit
                                       Packets               Pings
 Host                                Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst 
StDev
 1. 192.168.1.1                       0.0%    80    4.7   4.9   3.6  13.5   
1.1
 2. 1.240.62.81.cust.bluewin.ch       0.0%    79   16.8  17.0  15.2  37.2   
2.8
 3. net321.bwrt1zhh.bluewin.ch        0.0%    79   16.5  16.6  15.2  20.4   
0.8
 4. net25.bwrt1inh.bluewin.ch         0.0%    79   16.7  17.7  15.2  38.2   
3.0
 5. if234.ip-plus.bluewin.ch          0.0%    79   16.8  19.3  14.7 172.2  
17.6
 6. i79zhh-005-gig6-0x2.bb.ip-plus.n  0.0%    79   16.6  20.4  15.2 135.2  
17.2
 7. i68geb-005-gig11-0.bb.ip-plus.ne  0.0%    79   20.5  28.3  18.9 203.3  
31.2
 8. i00lon-005-pos2-0.bb.ip-plus.net  0.0%    79   36.1  37.8  36.0  45.7   
1.4
 9. e31-gw1-uk.cableinet.net          0.0%    79   38.7  40.4  36.5 187.0  
17.2
10. 194.117.136.145                   0.0%    79   41.0  48.3  37.3 233.7  
30.4
11. 194.117.136.174                   0.0%    79   39.8  41.7  37.7  97.2   
8.9
12. 194.117.136.125                   0.0%    79   38.0  38.6  37.2  41.8   
0.9
13. 82.44.128.114                     0.0%    79   45.5  47.3  37.0 226.3  
29.8
14. 163.166.150.101                   0.0%    79   38.5  38.8  36.7  43.7   
1.1
15. ???
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Is BA, internet radio streams, and other select sites, block traffic from 
Switzerland?  Why's my friend's WinXP machine getting through to the BA site?  
Is he sending out special html headers that allow him through and my Gentoo 
machine is not?  How do I troubleshoot this one?
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to troubleshoot ISP connection

[Richard Fish]

On 10/29/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> My friends WinXP does not seem to have such problems.  He can connect to
> www.britishairways.com and this has confused me and perplexed me a lot.
> What's with his Windoze machine that allows him to connect to websites that I
> cannot?

My first guess is that the ISP is using a proxy setup that is making
it difficult for you to connect.  Your friends WinXP is probably
automatically detecting the proxy and using it.  Try playing with the
proxy settings in $browser.

-Richard
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