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One media-heavy site stalls all traffic?

  • 05-02-2013 1:06pm
    #1
    who_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭


    (Sorry to bring up my broadband probs again, but I did notice interesting behaviour with mine, and it seems fairly consistent).

    I was browsing mostly text sites like boards.ie; and speed was pretty good on a 100Mbps connection. Then, in another tab I open an image heavy site. Then, all sites stopped loading; or to be more accurate they partially loaded and then stalled so some showed the title, some showed a few text items, but none loading fully.

    So I look at the network activity expecting it to be very heavy, and no it's a measly 160kbps. It's an old machine, so maybe the CPU is overloaded? No, the CPU usage was <20%. I closed the site, and ran a speedtest, and got up to 90Mbps down. Tried Netflix and can stream HD video no problem. With the image-heavy site closed, everything else loaded fine again.

    This seems to be consistently my problem. Speedtests are fine, Netflix is fine (probably on a CDN), downloads are slow enough. But opening image/video heavy sites stop ALL sites loading even though network & CPU load is low.

    I'll try again on a faster (i7) laptop this evening to confirm it's not an issue just with an old machine.


Comments

  • #2
    advertsfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭advertsfox


    It's probably timing out loading ads or specific images from poor hosts - I suggest installed Adblock and loading the page again to increase page load times.


  • #3
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    reduce the number of http connections your browser makes at the same time too.


  • #4
    RangeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    Try a different Browser


  • #5
    who_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    Cheers for the suggestions, will try when I get home.
    advertsfox wrote: »
    It's probably timing out loading ads or specific images from poor hosts - I suggest installed Adblock and loading the page again to increase page load times.

    But would that affect all tabs/sites, or just the tab/site which is loading the slow adverts?


  • #6
    advertsfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭advertsfox


    who_me wrote: »
    Cheers for the suggestions, will try when I get home.



    But would that affect all tabs/sites, or just the tab/site which is loading the slow adverts?

    All sites, which will improve browsing performance overall.


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