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Read the title of this thread .... where is it?

Well it's here now ... so start webbing and technicalling chatting ...

Google 'exposed'

End of Windows?

Not all surprising, but worthy of a read :¬)

Evening all ... an interesting bit of info here for Windows8 users:

W8 and Classic Start Menu

Thought that this was capable within W8 anyway...but there you go
:¬)

Question to Freeola Techies ... why does Freeola Home page on loading stick at 'transferring data' from images4 folder, images folder on Chat Home page and images5 folder on Chat Forums?

EDIT: This has been noticeable for months and I seem to remember one of you mentioning that you were having problems with an "image server" ...

I wasn't aware it did DL. What browser are you using?
Browsers generally only allow a certain number of connections to a server to get resources the page needs. To overcome this you can serve over multiple hostnames and the browser treats each hostname as a separate server. We did this to speed up page load, not slow it down so we'd be interested to know your setup so we can try and reproduce the problem and tweak things to get rid of it.

Eccles wrote:
I wasn't aware it did DL. What browser are you using?


Browser is Firefox and has been since before this 'issue arose'. As of last night, it's version 18. The OS is Vista 64-bit ... anything else, let me know.

It's a strange thing Eccles and at times, it can only be resolved by stopping each page loading and then refreshing it! However, if you ignore the 'transferring data ... freeola.com and freeola.co.uk' and move on, the page is still trying to load and every time it's trying to access the same three 3 image folders, which to be honest I don't give a 'toad about' but it does cause concern as quitting the browser and restarting usually has the page load totally, no problems!

Still there chaps ...

images5.freeola.co.uk .... Freeola Home Page
images.freeola.co.uk ... Gaming Forum Page
images4.freeola.com ... Chat Home Page

Where's the problem Eccles?

Not sure yet. Not in the office until tomorrow so will try and have a look then. Hope it's not a Vista version of Firefox only problem as I'm not a big fan of Vista!

Eccles wrote:
Not sure yet. Not in the office until tomorrow so will try and have a look then. Hope it's not a Vista version of Firefox only problem as I'm not a big fan of Vista!

Thanks for that Eccles, but I'll also add ... if the Netgear router is rebooted, then the 'problem' doesn't seem to appear until a few days later. Strange!

Aha thanks for the clue. We've experienced a similar issue with some D-Link routers (I think, was a years or so ago). If you can, try checking the logs on the router when it happens, look for something mentioning dropping or blocking of packets. With the D-Link's it was treating lots of concurrent session as some kind of DDOS attack and blocking them, causing the browser to hang waiting for data to download.

Thanks Eccles ... will do.

As I've recently rebooted the router, there's nothing of importance in the logs as yet

The 'event' has happened twice today, so far. The router logs though show no abnormalities whatsoever.