2 second delay

²°°³webkev²°°³ · 13-08-2003 12:41am #1

I cant stand it anymore..
it use to be that the 2 second delay in internet explorer, even when I got broadband, could be got use to. But now it's going up to 4, 5 ..7 seconds. Its not the speed on netsource, as I am still able to download things at over 50kbs..

Can anybody help? none of my friends who have broadband have this problem, webpages are near instant..:rolleyes: :mad:

Töpher · 13-08-2003 12:43am

do you mean when you intitally connect?

i'm on iol, and when i connect it takes about 60-90 secs for any data to transfer initially, after that its ok tho. super fast then!

²°°³webkev²°°³ · 13-08-2003 12:44am

not when i connect, when i click on a link or refresh a page.. even on superfast sites like google-groups or yahoo!?!

Töpher · 13-08-2003 12:50am

hows your computers specs? if its got a bogged down HD, or low ram maybe its just not displaying the pages initially even if they're retrieved as it takes your hardware longer to process the info?

Mutant_Fruit · 13-08-2003 2:18am

try another browser. e.g. mozilla
www.mozilla.org

other than that i don't know. try pinging boards.ie or yahoo.com and see if its a latency issue and not the browser. if the pings are low, its the browser

-ADREN- · 13-08-2003 3:17am

yea this happens to me as well.. i notice it most on boards..

and im not netsource im IOLbb and its speeds and latency are good

Frank Grimes · 13-08-2003 7:48am

Originally posted by ²°°³webkev²°°³
not when i connect, when i click on a link or refresh a page.. even on superfast sites like google-groups or yahoo!?!

Do you mean a couple of seconds of a delay from when you click a link/refresh before the whole page loads?

Mutant_Fruit · 13-08-2003 11:58am

another thought, you;re browser is probably set to only show the webpage when its fully downloaded into your cache. which is why there's a delay

dardoz · 13-08-2003 12:43pm

ive always had that with ISDN, even when i had cable. Like your conn freezes for 10 seconds, then comes back. Didnt effect me games so I dont know if it was an ie problem

BKtje · 13-08-2003 4:56pm

Dar that was your toaster imo, nothing to do with the connection

Off Topic: Any news when you'll have ur DSl dar?

Supercell · 13-08-2003 9:02pm

Its a netsource problem..prolly a overloaded router.

Why am i certain of this?..

Used to be a solo user..now a Netsource one..

If i'm bold and use my old Eircom connection..which still works btw..pages load very fast ...on netsource there is a definate 1-2 sec delay, however downloads are fine, so can live with it.

CyberGhost · 13-08-2003 9:11pm

try this

before doing it, backup your registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

expand it, and delete both keys there, i have XP and i had that delay too but that trick gave me a huge boost, no delay at all

Supercell · 13-08-2003 9:32pm

Interesting, where did you get that tip from, and why does it work?

V hesitant to go mucking about with the registry unless there is a good reason to.

fisty · 13-08-2003 9:50pm

its the browser, get opera or mozilla and it'll fix it.

Mutant_Fruit · 13-08-2003 10:18pm

try another browser. e.g. mozilla

has anyone done this yet...

CyberGhost · 13-08-2003 10:36pm

Longfield

i don't remember where i got it from, but everytime i reinstall my system, i always do it, and nothing ever happens, and my IE runs like wild

MrPinK · 13-08-2003 10:40pm

OT: When I was upgrading Mozilla today I saw their new browser on their site, Firebird. They've really outdone themselves this time. It's outstanding. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

CyberGhost · 13-08-2003 10:44pm

Mutant oh yea! MozillA!!!!!!!!!!!! it's a very powerful browser, it kicks operas ass hard, download Mozilla Firebird, and get to know it, you'll love it!, i never thought i'd switch to another browser from IE, and Mozilla really kicks IE's ass, first time in my computer usage years, i have other browser as a default, Mozilla Firebird has loads of very usefull plugins(extensions as mozilla calls them), from link checker to download sorter(you just click save as on a file and depending on the extension, mozilla saves them to the appropriate folder you pointed in options) it has tabbed browsing, with a plugin can make mozilla remember the windows you had opened when u crashed, so there is no you'll lose information when you crash, has a pop-up blocker, has very neat interface, you'll love it, try it

CyberGhost · 13-08-2003 10:47pm

forgot to add, by enabling pipelining in options, it smokes IE's and opera's speed

Mutant_Fruit · 14-08-2003 12:36am

i got firebird these last few days, and its truly surperb, none of this "2 second lag" its instant. get it at http://texturizer.net/firebird/ and tell me if it solves the problem.

btw, where is this pipelining option?

Mutant_Fruit · 14-08-2003 12:47am

thought of another thing... are you typing in the url's as follows: yahoo or google

or are you typing" www.yahoo.com or www.google.com

If you are doing the former, it can take an extra few seconds for the pages to reslove to the .com or .net extension.

CyberGhost · 14-08-2003 12:50am

Enable Pipelining

Pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to improve page-load performance, that is unfortunately not well supported by some web servers and proxies. To try it out, add the following code to your user.js file:

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

more tips

http://texturizer.net/firebird/tips.html

ZENER · 14-08-2003 1:13pm

Why is the file for Mac OS X nearly twice the size of the Windoze version.

11 Meg for a web browser is crazy . . nearly up to I.E. standards.

I prefer Safari for Mac, its quick, its small and never f****s up.

With regard to the time lag the original poster commented on . . have you manually set the dns server addresses in your network setup - if so are they the correct ones for your ISP.

You could also try setting them to eircoms dns addresses as follows:

159.134.237.6
159.134.248.17

Worth a try, it cured problems I had with certain sites.

Tinky

MrPinK · 14-08-2003 2:33pm

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/
Well to make up for the big version of firebird they have another browser that's just for you mac ppl.

Töpher · 14-08-2003 3:22pm

i'm on iol, and recently, every 5th page (or so) i go to load or whatever just sits there at the page with the link on it, till i open up DOS and do a ping test, which gives it a kick, this never happens in games, just when browsing. kinda annoying though!
might see if i can find a prog that runs and permanently pings a site or something.

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