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Re: [IRCA] OT Computer issue
HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS wrote:
I had nearly identical issues to Pat's! Count me as one who installed
Firefox over the last couple of years and yes it helped but did not
fully eliminate similar problems that Patrick has experienced. Pages
that would load fine suddenly would get "Page can not be displayed"
errors. Repeadetly hitting F5 (refresh shortcut) in IE would eventually
allow the page to load. Firefox would normally load the "trouble" pages
but not always and they would take forever. FF had a higher success
rate than IE. Sometimes rebooting the PC helped for a while also.
I did all the defrags, virus and adware scans and so on and I still had
issues.
The true solution, however was not switching to Firefox or restarting
the PC, it was changing providers. I think Pat is on dial-up but I had
supposedly high speed internet from Comcast. Once I went to AT&T
U-Verse, the page load errors went away even with IE. My U-Verse speed
is 1.5 Mbps, which is four times slower than Comcast's 6.0 but the pages
load so much quicker and that is a biggie for me and the wife.
If you are on dial-up, could it be a noisy line? Too low of bandwidth?
I doubt it.
Likely one of several things...
Defective cache in the OS of choice, or browser of choice. Delete the
caches for each browser and restarting the browser will regenerate the
cache.
Poorly managed upstream proxy cache (this you should know is there via
settings) or poorly managed transparent cache upstream (this you won't
see but can test for). These two are at your ISP.
Or bad DNS from your ISP, perhaps page redirection, etc. Best solution
is to use alternate DNS, there are several. OpenDNS is one, or use
Level3 DNS servers.
Load errors are either due to bad DNS (404 errors) bad cache (404 or
other) or corrupted local browser cache.
Rick Kunath
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