Web surfing time lags...?

[vlc]

recently i've noticed a several second time delay upon clicking some links on various websites, an wondered if thats now how the internet works due to increased traffic, or because my AVG anti-virus shield delays page transitions, or something like that which holds up data transfer.

tho i'm not talking about page loading time as signifed by that blue bar the IE browser shows, nor am i talking about the percentage of objects loading factor as shown in the left corner, eg- 00%.

i'm talking about clicking a link to then have it actully take effect without an over long delay.

[GreenV8S]

There are various tools available to diagnose this sort of thing. If you were investigating this professionally you would want the sort of stuff we make at www.chevin.com , but you can get a long way using the freebie analysis tools if you don't mind spending longer at it. You may find it's something as a simple as a DNS configuration fault.

[vlc]

GreenV8S said:

you can get a long way using the freebie analysis tools if you don't mind spending longer at it.

so where those the 'freebie analysis tools' as mentioned?

[Kinky]

I've actually noticed it here on PH.

It stalls waiting to load from multi1.rmuk.co.uk for up to 5 or 6 seconds.

K

[vlc]

i think its a flaw in current browsers, as i heard theyre integrated into handling LAN traffic when most users login outside a company network, an thus waste time checking for lan data that dont exist.

to that end, i once heard a program exists that can remove such lan coding from within a home-pc's browsing setup, thus bypassing needless protocol checks an making surfing much quicker.

anybody here know more about that?

[agent006]

vlc said:

i think its a flaw in current browsers, as i heard theyre integrated into handling LAN traffic when most users login outside a company network, an thus waste time checking for lan data that dont exist. to that end, i once heard a program exists that can remove such lan coding from within a home-pc's browsing setup, thus bypassing needless protocol checks an making surfing much quicker. anybody here know more about that?

Untick the "Automatically detect proxy settings" box fram LAN settings on the connections tab of internet options will do this.

[smele]

Check to make sure that you don't have any mapped network drives that are not connected. If you do, disconnect them.

[agent006]

smele said:

Check to make sure that you don't have any mapped network drives that are not connected. If you do, disconnect them.

How would that make any difference to web speeds?

[JamieBeeston]

Visiting Foreign (non-UK Hosted) sites will also give a similar experience.

There can be a few hundred miliseconds delay between here and the US (at worst alot more)

so thats say 300ms for you to send the request, then them process it, then 300ms for them to sendback the data...

Add a busy server into the mix, and you could be talking seconds, PER REQUEST.

[arcturus]

vlc said:

i think its a flaw in current browsers, as i heard theyre integrated into handling LAN traffic when most users login outside a company network, an thus waste time checking for lan data that dont exist.

I don't think so. Any browser that is correctly set up will look where it is told to look for what it needs. Thus a non-LAN/router connected browser if set up correctly will look straight to the dial up connection for its data.

GreenV8S is quite correct when he says it could be a simple DNS issue. Either the setting on the PC may not be optimum or maybe the DNS server is just having a bad day and being slow.

[vlc]

smele said:

Check to make sure that you don't have any mapped network drives that are not connected. If you do, disconnect them.

ok, but, how does one check this out???
as my pc seems to only list local drives via its 'my computer' icon - so where else do i look?

[arcturus]

My Computer would list mapped network drives if they were present, even if they were not connected. If you can't see any, then you don't have any.

Unless they are hidden of course which is unlikely.

[zumbruk]

This could be absolutely anything. Latency in your internet connection, load on DNS servers, load on the web server you're attempting to connect to... A lot of ecommerce sites are running like pigs at the moment while people do their Xmas shopping. Amazon have problems caused by a beautifully timed software upgrade (never heard of "embargo periods"?).