Comment 13 for bug 59331

Hi all,

I'm new to Linux, using ubuntu 8.04.

I have this problem, and it has not been solved by following the advice above:

I only seem to be able to connect to google. Other websites timeout. I can ping everything fine. Synaptic times out when it tries to get packages.

I've edited /etc/sysctl.conf, adding the line

net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0

There's no change, everything still times out.

Can anyone help a poor linux newbie who would just love to stop relying on windows?