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But if it is bandwidth related, how is that other sites aren't affected?
Posted by GrahamY, Sunday, 3 April 2011 11:27:39 AM
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Thanks blokes, lets not pretend I know much about it I do not.
But I am a bit handy with a Cobb and Co tool box.
Every country born bloke is.
Tools constist of a big hammer, wire cutters and any nearby fence,[do not let the live stock out.
It may well be my server and bandwidth.
They canceled my insurance, every ones! after years paying? the service is poor, remember they had me of service for near a month.
Here is the Cobb And Co plan.
Tomorow will take computor to mates place, he unfortunatly is a genius but stuborn.
Runs the oldest explorer will have nothing to do with soft ware not invented ten years ago.
He has fast broad band!
So islolat one issue tomorow.
Seems a waste but broadband, far more speed than I get on satelite via radio is now available here.
Will look into that, tomorow.
thanks to all, ps only me here and only this pc.
Posted by Belly, Sunday, 3 April 2011 11:40:58 AM
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GrahamY asks, with respect to Belly's problem loading pages from the OLO site:

"But if it is bandwidth related, how
is that other sites aren't affected?"

I can only observe that on past occasions when the OLO site has been very slow to load, I have been able to access sites like Twitter or Twitpic with no difficulty. Should it have not been an OLO server problem on those occasions, I can only think that I was running into some form of bandwidth bottleneck somewhere along the route of my connection, a bottleneck I did not encounter connecting to, say, Twitter. I don't pretend to have any understanding as to how the internet makes its routing decisions, I simply understand that those decisions can constantly vary from one attempt at connection to another.

I also understand that which ISP one uses may make a difference to connection speed. I use Internode, and it is my understanding that Internode has dedicated 'backbone' cabling for some of the routing not shared with other internet traffic than that of Internode clients. It thus may be that a connection to OLO attempted through Internode encounters less bandwidth bottleneck than one attempted using, say, bigpond.

Belly,

Should it be that the problem, after you have had it checked out, seems not to be your own computer, or any of the software you are running on it, it might help to email your present ISP and ask whether they can provide you with a log of the internet connections made using your account since this trouble started. If they are willing/able to supply such a log (there shouldn't be any privacy problems - you are their client) and you find records of sites you know you have not visited, then you will know someone else is using your connection and 'sharing' your bandwidth.

In a way, even this thread constitutes corroborative evidence of innocence should somebody be trying to set you up for downloading illegal copies of copyrighted material, or kiddyporn. You know, as payback for having told it like it is.
Posted by Forrest Gumpp, Sunday, 3 April 2011 5:30:24 PM
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Hi Graham,

If I am getting 'grey screened' because the kids are chewing up bandwidth I dive for the iphone. Not quite as easy to read but loads in an instant. The difference is the IPhone doesn't run Flash. The reason Apple has left Flash alone is because of bandwidth and battery issues.
Posted by csteele, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:03:58 AM
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The reason Apple has left Flash alone is because of bandwidth and battery issues.
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That's simply nonsense!

Apple hate flash because it gives developers a way of bypassing their appstore (No cut for them). There is no reason why flash would consume more battery life or use more bandwidth than any other app. HTML five (which they don't really support fully(Again no cut for them) and are pushing) is not more friendly to bandwidth or battery life, so what you're reading or hearing from apple zealots is just bull!

What belly is most probably experiencing is an add that is being drawn from a suboptimal location slowing down the site. That's what usually brings a local site that works ok normaly to its knees.

Perhaps installing Firefox 4.0 with "addblock plus" and "noscript" extensions installed (standard fare for using the net these days if you have a brain) will fix all his problems in two easy downloads!

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

He should be using anything other than Internet Exploiter, it's just asking for trouble, like walking through a toxic, medical, waste dump with thongs on, you'd have to be an idiot! And Google Chrome is just a window for Google Corp (TM) to see what you do on the net every second of the day!

No issues for me here and I use the same as Forrest but not Ubuntu. Debian here, baby, the mother of Ubuntu and the best operating system in the world :)
Posted by RawMustard, Monday, 4 April 2011 1:59:00 AM
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Belly, make it clear, is the problem restricted to OLO ?
Do a comparison; wia.org.au takes five seconds for most of the page
and a bit more takes another two seconds.

How long does it take you. I am pretty sure that satellite will be
longer as you have 0.4 seconds up and 0.4 seconds down overhead for each file needing an ack.
So you should be able to get it in 10 secs I would think.

The time once in the Telstra system should not vary much as it is X25
and has virtual dedicated routes to the destination area switches.
They do that because otherwise the tcpip can send packets off on a
frolic of their own and take the scenic route.

How long since you did a cleanup and defrag ?
Posted by Bazz, Monday, 4 April 2011 10:27:19 AM
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