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How to describe this?
Posted: 2008-03-28 04:56pm
by Superman
When pages load slowly when surfing around, what is that called? I'm talking about a long lag period from the time I click to load up a page, and when it actually loads. How would a tech communicate that? Page lag? And could that have to do with packet loss?
Thanks!
Posted: 2008-03-28 05:01pm
by Bounty
It depends. Does the page loading hang on resolving the IP, getting a connection, or downloading the page?
Posted: 2008-03-28 05:30pm
by Superman
Bounty wrote:It depends. Does the page loading hang on resolving the IP, getting a connection, or downloading the page?
Exactly!
How would I find out if the lag came from resolving the IP?
Posted: 2008-03-28 05:32pm
by DaveJB
Ping the IP, if the destination server will let you. It'll tell you how quickly the IP address is being resolved.
Posted: 2008-03-28 06:31pm
by Superman
DaveJB wrote:Ping the IP, if the destination server will let you. It'll tell you how quickly the IP address is being resolved.
I can't ping, probably because of my firewall or network management program. I did make a discovery though; I ran PC Pitstop optimizer, and now my page load time is fine. It's like it's been super charged. Would that point to a problem with resolving the IP address?
Posted: 2008-03-28 06:54pm
by Bounty
That depends on what exactly this Pitstop program does. Did it make a log of changes or is this one of those POS shareware dealies that has you pay $30 for tweaking a few settings that you can do yourself for free?
Posted: 2008-03-28 07:07pm
by Superman
This is what it claims to do
# Deeper Registry Cleaning
# Firefox Internet Optimization
# Boost Local Network Performance
# Enhanced Internet optimization
# More System Performance Tweaks
# Cleans up unneeded Outlook files
# New Automatic update technology
# Subscription frequently adds new performance enhancements
It's at pcpitstop.com
Posted: 2008-03-29 08:06am
by Bounty
Unless you can find out what *precisely* that program does, you won't find the original fault, so... yay?