Internet connection issue

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Alex C <actx0105 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey thanks so much for the help! Of course it cuts down my connection speed,
> but at least now I can browse while updates are running in the background. I
> still haven't tested with others using the internet at the same time, but
> this might just be the solution I've been looking for. I might play around
> with the speed to see if I can get a faster download without taking all the
> bandwidth.
>
> Just out of curiosity, I'm still new to Linux so I'm learning the ins and
> outs. Do fixes like this work on other distros? I have Fedora 15 on another
> laptop to check out Gnome 3 and I'm curious if this would work there, or do
> different distros have different file structures and such?


If they are using the same components the various configurations
("fixes") are about, yes.

Regarding the specific issue, Ubuntu uses apt for installation of
software, Fedora uses yum. So this configuration will work on all
distributions using apt, like Debian Linux.



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