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Donovan

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Is anyone else having really big problems internationally with getting pages to completely load? This piece of turd of a connection seems to give up about 10% of the way through, which usually only happens with I am downloading heavily.
 
Um. Thats like asking why you cannot run any faster when you are already running at full speed.
When a browser cannot send a request for data through, it stops. If the request for data was sent ok, then it can wait about 3 minutes for the reply (Without online notification).
Recieving data always gets higher priority, otherwise the data will be lost and that's just a waste of bandwidth. The timeout for a send is about 3 seconds.
Well - that's how IE 4.x used to work, dunno about the new stuff.
 
Um, guys, I'm not thick. With NO other programs running on ANY computer, pages fail to load past about 10%. It gives up, STOPS loading (not pauses and waits). This is the same thing that used to happen when ms had that problem in IE with it's MSHTML.DLL file in the late 90s (it's doing this to all computers on the MW network, including friends pcs).

I am using Firefox, on Mac OS X (version 1.0+ G4 Optimised build 2005-01-10). No ways would I use anything else ;-)
 
FWIW locally absa banking and 20Twenty will not load on my old pc runing Loss98SE but on my laptop on XP those sites will load, so for me a computer problem
 
Donovan,

Did you change anything on your network?
This looks like a typical "incorrect MTU" issue...
 
Yup - MTU set to 1492 on the router, and I seem to remember changing this on the computers on the network too. Also tried setting it lower than that and so on.

I tried plugging it directly into each computer, and it does it on both of them. I havent tried the USB plug yet on a PC. So nobody else is having this problem? It's mainly international while dowloading stuff.
 
Apologies Donovan - was in my deep techie mode where I forget reality.
I used to get that kind of rubbish with Megawan, dropping my MTU to 512 solved the problem, though I do not recommend that - too many packets, but it worked fine with Megawan.
 
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