Crunchbang Faster Internet – No iPv6

April 17, 2010 by rich scadding Leave a Comment

To disable iPv6 system-wide for all connections you can edit the aliases.conf file:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf

Then uncomment iPv6 line and turn it off :
#alias net-pf-10 ipv6

So that the network protocols looks like this:

# 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
# 7 BRIDGE
# alias net-pf-8 atm
# alias net-pf-9 x25
alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off
# alias net-pf-11 rose
# alias net-pf-12 decnet

Now reboot and go super-speed-surfing ;-)

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Can Google's SPDY make the web twice as fast?

November 14, 2009 by rich scadding Leave a Comment

google-logoGoogle has announced it’s new html-killer protocol SPDY, pronounced “Speedy”. It has only been tested in lab conditions so far and awaits real world tests to see if it can indeed increase on the 55% faster download speeds that they encountered.

Today we’d like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced “SPeeDY”, an early-stage research project that is part of our effort to make the web faster. SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. It is designed specifically for minimizing latency through features such as multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression.

Read the full article at: http://blog.chromium.org/2009/11/2x-faster-web.html

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How to Speed Up Internet: Firefox, Google Earth (No IpV6)

February 6, 2009 by rich scadding Leave a Comment

This works great for broadband connections, especially with older routers.

[b]Disable IpV6[/b]
The idea is basically that you disable IpV6 connections. At the moment most connections use IpV4 but this will change in the future so this “fix/ workaround” is fine at the present. We have IpV6 enabled as well as IpV4 but they conflict causing slowdown due to IpV6 trying to get a connection first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address#IP_version_4

[b]
Speedup Firefox only[/b]

In the [b]firefox[/b] address bar type: [b]about:config[/b], then change

network.dns disableIPv6: True

(just double-click)
[b]
Completely Disable IpV6[/b]

[b]1. Open your Gnome Terminal/ KDE Konsole and type[/b]
For Gnome

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

For Xfce

gksudo mousepad /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

[b]
2. Mousepad or Gedit will open and show you this file[/b]
(scroll down to see what to copy and paste)
[quote]# 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
[b]# [color=red]1, 2, 3 new lines[/color][/b]
[i]alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off
alias net-pf-10 off add these three lines here.
alias ipv6 off [/i]
[b]#[/b][i]alias net-pf-10 ipv6 [color=red]=========comment (put #) before this line[/color][/i]
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
[/quote]
[b]3. Now “Save” and “Reboot”[/b]

[b]Also:[/b]
There’s another way too: instead of changing the aliases file, create a file 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 gets replaced at some update.

I did this and had a noticeable increase in speed :D

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