by ozone » Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:52 pm
Thanks. I appreciate that. I'm looking forward to making Linux my primary OS.
Hardware:
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P-B3 Motherboard
Core i7 2600K CPU
8 GB RAM
EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX570 superclocked video card
2x 256 GB Crucial M4 SSD drives
1x 300 GB Velociraptor HDD
1x 150 GB Raptor HDD
One SSD drive has Linux on it and the other has Windows 7. The mechanical drives were from my previous computer and I use them for data now to keep the writes down on the SSD's. As far as Modem equipment goes, I'm just using the on-board ethernet plugged into my router, which is plugged into the cable modem.
OS's tried:
Just Ultimate edition.2.6.
I loaded it on in a former life and liked it, so when I decided to switch to linux I went back to it. The internet was always slow on linux but normal on Windows, but when I ran the upgrades it cut off my internet altogether. After a while I reloaded it. The internet was slow again and I just didn't allow it to upgrade. Then one day I went to use it and I was disconnected again. So like I said, I stopped using it. Recently I was working on the Fedora powered HTPC in the living room and found that I broke the internet by turning IPv6 to automatic, so I checked my main computer, saw that it was on automatic, switched it to "ignore" and it started working again. Now I'm back to using Linux, but the internet is still slow. It's erratic though. When I first start using it, it may run fine, then I click on something and it won't go there, just times out. Then I'll try a different site and it might go there, but really slowly. Basically surfing sucks. Windows surfing works just fine.
Oh yeah, and I tried uplugging the computer, holding down the start button to dissipate residual charge. That seemed to make a lot of things run faster, but it never lasts..
Issues:
I think that's it.
It took a while to figure out how to fix the bootloader (both windows and grub) when I reloaded Ultimate Edition and it took a while to figure out how to load the nVidia drivers, but other than the internet, I think everything is working.
Hope that covers it. Let me know if you have any suggestions.