Internet problems; pages not always loading, especially if they contain images.

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Internet problems; pages not always loading, especially if they contain images.

Hi there,

All of a sudden my G4 laptop is having issues loading web pages, specifically ones with multiple images. For instance, if I searched Google for "toaster", the initial search engine page will come back in normal time, but if I select Googles images page, only half (if that) of the images will appear. The rest will be the small blue rectangles with a question mark. It took me a few goes to even get to this support page.

I'm using Safari, though I get the same result with Firefox. It could well be the internet service provider I suppose though I don't know how to tell.

In my Network preferences, under the DNS tab, there is the ip address number of the wireless router. It's greyed out.

Thanks for any help.

Posted on Jun 7, 2011 5:00 AM

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double_ohh7 Author

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Jun 7, 2011 10:02 AM in response to double_ohh7

Have tried using the open DNS servers 208.67.220.220 & 208.67.222.222...

Turned of IPv6....

Called the ISP but they say all is well....

Have deleted;

formvalues

download p.list

com.apple.Safari.plist

...and repaired permissions.

Still getting lots of little blue squares with question marks.

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double_ohh7 Author

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Jun 10, 2011 8:32 AM in response to double_ohh7

This isn't just happening on the G4 laptop (Leopard). Happens on the iMac too (Snow Leopard).

Spoke to the ISP again today, they say all should be fine.

No packets lost when pinging...(though I know nothing about pinging). We're getting a download speed of about 1.4 - 2 MB. Apparently the most we can get in this area is 2 - 2.5 anyway.

iPlayer works sometimes but not always and the images issue is still very much here. Lucky if we get 20% of the images on a page that we should do.

No one got any ideas....?

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double_ohh7 Author

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Jun 10, 2011 9:00 AM in response to double_ohh7

Ok, doing this.....

In Firefox, go to address about:config and you will be able to change the

> settings network.http.max-connections to 6 and network.http.max-

> connections-per-server to 2. These low numbers should make the problem

> go away if it is related to an ISP proxy or malfunctioning router/modem. If

> not, then your problem is very puzzling.

>

> If the lower connections make the problem go away, you can then try

> setting network.http.pipelining to true. That should restore some of the

> performance with limited connections. But if the problems return when you

> do that, there is definitely a bad ISP proxy involved.

...made Firefox finally load all the images on to the page. It was posted on MacRumours many years ago - http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=441693

I'm not a network kind of guy and I don't really understand what the problem is from that solution. Is it the ISP who's at fault? Given that it's happening on different computers with different operating systems and different browsers, am I safe to presume that?

And, more importantly, how do I fix this issue with Safari?

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