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Hi,

I'm using Firefox 353.

I've noticed that I have random issues when refreshing a page from the freeola.com domain in that the image servers appear to stall and then 'crash' all over the place with no images loading.

This is, as I mentioned, random, and I can't predict when it's going to happen, but if I look at my status bar during a stall, it's at image(n).freeola.com (or net etc).

If I refresh sometime later, all is recovered.

Any ideas?

Neil

Well as I wait for your 'avatar' to load, plus half the rest of the page...this is what I get

Waiting for http://chat.freeola.com/Instant-Sites-11-chat/Freeola-Image-Servers-12193.html

All other 'avatars' are loaded and viewable....

and yet I can still 'reply to post' and do what I'm doing now:-(

FYI

They just went sticky again at time of writing this.

N.

I've never had this problem either.

How are the image servers selected for each page? Could it be that at times one image server is given a larger number of images to serve, and struggles - or perhaps the web browser is just making use of it's maximum request limit?

Do you get this problem if you run Firefox or IE with add-ons disabled??

There is only one image server. It just serves over multiple subdomains as that's supposed to speed up image load times. Browsers are limited to the number of connections they can have open to one address at a time, therefore creating multiple addresses to server images open the browser can have more connection open and therefore download images quicker.

The only thing common to all the people who have reported this problem is that they are on our ADSL network (except at our offices here where the problem can't be seen!) and our image server is sitting in a data centre outside this network.

I must have switched off earlier, as I could swear your response Eccles was marked as being written by a form member??

I get the theory, though browsers nowadays have upped their connection limits, so less of a problem now for heavy image sites. Perhaps it's a case of the router within the network is sending some requests to a non-existent server?

It might be interesting to see some trace routes from those who have the problem vs those who dont. Even better if they go do them during an "episode".

This is interesting.

I have installed the newest version of the Tweak Network Settings Firefox extension. Google it, then go to the developers homepage and install - you should have at least version 1.4.1 installed after this. Don't forget to enable it.

My Firefox now goes through the roof... but the image server is still stalling (as we speak).

N.

Neilj99 wrote:
> I have installed the newest version of the Tweak Network Settings
> Firefox extension. Google it, then go to the developers homepage
> and install - you should have at least version 1.4.1 installed
> after this. Don't forget to enable it.

I wonder if that'll make your problem worse (more frequent).

Neilj99 wrote:
> This is interesting.
>
> I have installed the newest version of the Tweak Network Settings
> Firefox extension. Google it, then go to the developers homepage
> and install - you should have at least version 1.4.1 installed
> after this. Don't forget to enable it.
>
> My Firefox now goes through the roof... but the image server is
> still stalling (as we speak).
>
> N.

Whether or not the staffies have activated a 'technical' search for the problem as a result of this thread, I can report that IE8 doesn't seem to have this problem anymore:-)

@ Garin

This extension has always improved my experience. The new version seems to have improved browsing even further.

N.