just a few is there a device manager like in windows and 2nd my internet conection is so much slower than my other windows computer. is there a fix im talking 33.6 speeds this is my main system I realy love my suse but the internet speed is driving me nuts something has to give. note i have tryed the difrent browsers and nothing has changed my other windows machines have much faster speeds as far as internet but there slower (older machines win xp
is there a fix for this? i have all the up dates as far as i know there on auto update .thanx

device manager, try hwinfo it displays all but doesn't config anything, in openSuse Yast has some hw modules

slow intenet:
- might be iPv6, try disabling run yast -> network devices -> dsl -> edit -> dsl0 -> global options -> uncheck iPv6 -> ok
- might be bad dns services, look at file /etc/resolv.conf

all right kool now is there an ipconfig like in windows and what would be the comand for that be ? i will take yast and up dates off auto . something i have noticed that I have strong down load speeds but conecting too a web site takws for ever some times i have a time out there to ? see this is just all so strange not knowing what drivers i have o if there the corect ones. like in windows i can look and see whats what via divice manager. do you know of any good ebooks on this new suse is ther one out that you know of >? and thanks again for that advice

have you tried different browsers?

sounds like bad dns servers (or something else dns related) or maybe ipv6 being enabled (seen posts where it causes problems)

ipconfig equivant would be Yast's dsl module (if using ifup, what openSuse calls the traditional method) or KDE's network manager (if enabled it would be in your system tray)

there's a program called namebench which will test and determine fastest dns name servers to use http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

google01103 wrote:there's a program called namebench which will test and determine fastest dns name servers to use http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

+1 for namebench. It helped me find an alternative to Comcast's poky DNS servers, and it's made a noticeable difference.