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The speed of your internet connection is something that is affected by a lot of different elements, most of which are out of your reach and/or jurisdiction. That said, there isn't a way to transform a slow internet connection into a lighting-speed one if your provider is just not giving you enough bandwidth, no matter what you do. This post is only aiming to provide generic advice on how to make things a little bit better if possible, and if applicable to each case.
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Hello,
I have one question, what is Xserver used ?
Regards
You should at least warn that disabling SELinux and loosening you firewall rules might be a security risk, and using Google's DNS servers will certainly NOT improve your privacy but the contrary.
I tried the option for Firefox "browser.cache.use_new_backend" and it seemed to have majorly increased memory and cpu usage. It appears this is disabled by default for a reason at this time.
I tried this on Firefox 41 Linux 64bit, maybe others will have different results on Windows.
I may be wrong or missing something, but in the part about MTU, I think what you are testing for is MSS. For example, with an MSS of 1492, wouldn't you usually want to set the MTU to 1500?
The "mturoute" tool will quickly show the MSS as well as the "path MTU".
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Instead of the CTL-C option, try
ping -c 5 -M do -s 1472 howtoforge.com
The correct MTU is 28 added to the value you discovered using ping.
(Ping has 28 bytes of overhead not counted in the bytes specified by -s)
Isnt that why hes starting at 1472 and not 1500 in howto. Default is typically 1500
Browser performance can go well beyond internet throughput, there are easily googled "flags" tweaks for Chrome/Chromium and "about:config" tweaks for Firefox when they get sluggish. Can't recommend as it seems to vary, but worth trying.
The suggested MTU may significantly reduce the performance on a GigE LAN. Normally, for GigE connections, the MTU should be consistently set to 9000 or so. Of course, this assumes all directly connected LAN equipment supports Jumbo-Frames.
You can install chrome extension "7 Times Faster". It speed up your internet in 2 times by blocking ads and tracking.
This worked so well for me! Thank you for this article!
Plus d'actualité, l'option n'existe plus dans Chrome ...
You could add this too. www linuxbabe com/ubuntu/enable-google-tcp-bbr-ubuntu