Rather odd internet problem

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-05-30 11:31pm

For some reason lately I've been having a hard time loading any page with pictures, it doesn't seem to apply to site with only a few. Instead of loading the pictures in reasonable amount of time it'll grin to nearly a halt. I don't know why. I'm currently using Firefox but it was occurring before I switched.

Any ideas what it might be?

PackMule · Post by **PackMule** » 2004-05-31 03:50am

Are you on dial-up or broadband?

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-05-31 04:26am

Try pinging a reliable site (like, say, Google) several times. In Windows, you can do this by typing "ping -n X www.google.com" where X is the number of times you want to try to ping (20 would be a good number to try it out with.) In Linux or Mac OS, just leave the ping run for a minute or two. Check to see if you get large numbers of lost packets. That could indicate a problem with your connection.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-05-31 12:10pm

PackMule wrote:Are you on dial-up or broadband?

Broadband

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-05-31 01:33pm

I've experience that too,i think there are some sit that are non-browsing friendly.and when that happen i just Ctrl-Alt-Delete them.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-05-31 01:45pm

Drooling Iguana wrote:Try pinging a reliable site (like, say, Google) several times. In Windows, you can do this by typing "ping -n X www.google.com" where X is the number of times you want to try to ping (20 would be a good number to try it out with.) In Linux or Mac OS, just leave the ping run for a minute or two. Check to see if you get large numbers of lost packets. That could indicate a problem with your connection.

I ran that 10 times and got on Request timed out in it. For what ever that's worth.

The thing is though it's only happening in the case of pictures, particularly .jpgs.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-06-02 11:26pm

Drooling Iguana wrote:Try pinging a reliable site (like, say, Google) several times. In Windows, you can do this by typing "ping -n X www.google.com" where X is the number of times you want to try to ping (20 would be a good number to try it out with.) In Linux or Mac OS, just leave the ping run for a minute or two. Check to see if you get large numbers of lost packets. That could indicate a problem with your connection.

That shouldn't cause a problem for the site should it?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-06-02 11:30pm

I was just having that problem this afternoon. I unplugged both the modem and router for about half a minute, plugged them back in, and the problem was gone.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-06-02 11:32pm

Darth Wong wrote:I was just having that problem this afternoon. I unplugged both the modem and router for about half a minute, plugged them back in, and the problem was gone.

The problem's gone now.

But for whatever reason AOL's bugging me. And I tried pinging them so I'm a bit more concerned about that the whatever the problem was then.