My internet has been wonky tonight and this has happened before. I have a perfectly fine transfer rate and any bandwidth test site gives me adequate speed results. When I download files, they download at the normal rate.
However, every web site I load gets stuck on the “waiting for ****.com” portion. It sits there for a minute or so(sometimes longer), then transfers the page fine once it is done “waiting”. I end up having to load several tabs of pages and then going back to look at them individually after they loaded(got past their waiting for website time).
I have a wireless router. Is this causing it? I have my ethernet cable plugged in right now and wireless turned off. I am running the ethernet cable from the router to the computer, though. I have not yet run my ethernet cable directly from the modem to the computer. Should I try this?
Oh, and the internet does the same thing on both computers and on my Ipod touch. And my main computer has fine internet at work(no long waiting for reply times there).
Anyone know how to fix this problem? I’m on Windows XP(home edition) service pack 3.
I use Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer and get the same problem on all browsers.
This problem has happened before. It goes away for awhile and then returns. Then goes away and returns.
Probably your ISP using a dumbass proxy that is having problems. I have this issue with YouTube. I am connecting over 3G/HSDPA and I can get around 0.5Mbps, sometimes even faster.
YouTube videos, however, are streamed from the ISP’s own server at something like 1Kbps. I wish there were some way of bypassing it and going directly to source.
However definitely try plugging the ethernet directly into your computer to eliminate router problems. Have you checked your router settings?
Well typing that made me think: why not use a standalone DNS rather than my ISP’s? I changed my adapter settings to use Google DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) and bada bing, content direct from YouTube not the stupid proxy. So maybe you could try changing your DNS to those settings and see if things improve.
I had this problem before. The internet was slooooooooooooooow and would sometimes just kick me off altogether. I had a wireless router. Switched to a regular one, problem disappeared. If you’re still using the wireless router in any way that could be the problem.
My router is 9 years old, though it has worked beautifully over these last 9 years and shows no signs of being broken. It’s a Zyxel.
Anyway, the problem has disappeared again for the time being, but I may try the DNS thingy you guys recommended.
Oh, and last night, it did seem like my Roku started delaying the initial loading of episodes. I actually think it, too, got “stuck” waiting for about 1 minute or so per episode.
Sometimes I have pages getting hung up while loading. I click the “Stop” button on the address bar, wait a few seconds, and then try to reload again. Often, it will load right away after that.
~VOW
Also, sometimes it’s really a part of the page that is unreachable. It’s pretty common for Widgets, etc. Inc. (fictional name) to include bits of content from third party providers in their pages at www.widgetsetcinc.com (fictional site). This could be for targeted advertising, for visitor tracking, for multimedia services, etc.
Even if the server at widgetsetcinc.com is operational, one of those third-party servers may be down or made unreachable by filtering. The net effect is that the main content of the page is downloaded properly by your browser, but then you get “waiting for embedded.targetedadvertising.com” for several seconds before the browser gives up and shows you the page.
If it is a DNS issue, the DNS request continues even if you hit “Stop”. When you hit “Reload”, the DNS result is cached (meaning: it doesn’t have to do another lookup) and it loads instantly.
It might help you psychologically, but I doubt that strategy saves any time.
The correct solution to slow DNS is to switch to a faster DNS server. Google’s are fine. I have a dozen or so I use, but they don’t “advertise” that they’re open to the public, so I won’t share them.
I did this and it couldn’t connect to the internet at all. I assume because for subnet mask, I had it blank and ended up(I think) putting 255.0.0.0 or something in for it.
