On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:48:37PM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:08 +0000, Chris G wrote:
I seem to be suffering from a lot of web page timeouts at the moment.
I navigate around a site for a while and then I can access no more pages at that site, if I leave the browser tab waiting I eventually get a timeout error. Usually if I then retry the page appears instantly.
Can anyone suggest what might be going on and/or any way to diagnose what the problem is? Just being able to work out whether it's something wrong at my end or if there really is something wrong with the site I'm accessing would be useful.
To see if it is my end of their I usually try loading a different page in a different window. If that works while the original page does not then the problem must be their server or something else beyond my DSL line.
Yes, generally that's what I would do - and if other pages load OK I would assume the problem is their end. However this seems to to happening to me so much at present I'm wondering if there is some more subtle error. As I said it's rarely the first few pages I load from a particular site, it's after I have loaded five or six pages that it sticks.
I do have two ADSL routers with my Draytek Vigor 2820n doing the bandwidth sharing with the 'secondary' one which is a BT Business Hub (2Wire router). I'm wondering if there is some subtle problem when my connection changes from one router (and thus IP address) to the other. I already have various rules to force SMTP connections and HTTPS connections to use only one router. Maybe the sites in question are doing something which requires the connection to appear to come from the same IP all the time.