On the old BB, when I clicked on something, the new page would be loaded before I could take my finger off the mouse. Now when I click on something, I have to wait for 30 to 60 seconds for it to load. Sometimes it won't load at all, and I have to stop loading it and click the refresh button before it will work. I have four computers and I've tried it on three of them and I have the same problem on all three. Two have Windows XP and one has Vista. Its probably a problem with my computers or my ISP, but is anyone else having this problem?
Thanks.
JC
Do Pages Load Slower on the New BB
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Jos Cuypers
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I'm afraid that sort of thing is very hard to track down to one specific cause. The only thing I can think of is that this website runs on a server which is located in Europe. You're in California. What you see on your screen has travelled halfway around the world and physics dictates that there should be some time lag, small as it may be. When I visit websites in Australia, it's not as fast as when I visit a website in Holland (where I live). The difference is small but noticeable. Another explanation might be that because the motel you're in draws a lot of internet traffic with all it's guests, it has a top-notch connection to the world wide web. After all, speeds still vary depending on the kind of connection. At home, my connection is fast. At work, it is 10x faster (I can download a 10MB file in less than 20 seconds there). And even my connection at work is not the fastest one around. Bandwidth is still the name of the game.
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JC
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My son built me a new computer that is way faster than anything I've had before. He also included Mozilla Firefox on it. The pages on this BB load fairly fast on it. I figured that it was the speed of the computer and the fact that its connected to the DSL modem with an ethernet cable instead of a router that was making it work better.
A few days ago, I installed Firefox on this computer (not-too-fast laptop with wireless connection) and the pages load way faster on it, too.
Do you guys have any idea why Firefox made it work better?
A few days ago, I installed Firefox on this computer (not-too-fast laptop with wireless connection) and the pages load way faster on it, too.
Do you guys have any idea why Firefox made it work better?
As Oscar said, can be many things...... one that I've found can make a difference is the way your browser uses it's cache.....the cache is a storage area on your hard drive where the browser saves copies of web pages you've visited.....most browsers have some means to adjust the settings for the cache.
with typical settings, when you request a web page, the browser looks to see what it has in the cache for that page, does some queries to the web site to see what's changed, and loads from both sources as needed.....new data from the remote site, unchanged data from your hard drive...
if your computer is slow, or has a very large cache area, all this looking through the cache can be slower that just loading the page fresh from the remote site. on the other hand , if your internet connection is slow, or the remote site is slow or very busy
getting the data from the cache can be faster.
with the versions of firefox I'm familiar with, hitting the reload/refresh button causes it to ignore the cache and get the whole page from the remote site as the default setting.
If your internet connection is consistently very fast, you're often better off adjusting the browser setting to have a very small cache and/or setting it to just always load from the remote site.
with typical settings, when you request a web page, the browser looks to see what it has in the cache for that page, does some queries to the web site to see what's changed, and loads from both sources as needed.....new data from the remote site, unchanged data from your hard drive...
if your computer is slow, or has a very large cache area, all this looking through the cache can be slower that just loading the page fresh from the remote site. on the other hand , if your internet connection is slow, or the remote site is slow or very busy
getting the data from the cache can be faster.
with the versions of firefox I'm familiar with, hitting the reload/refresh button causes it to ignore the cache and get the whole page from the remote site as the default setting.
If your internet connection is consistently very fast, you're often better off adjusting the browser setting to have a very small cache and/or setting it to just always load from the remote site.
Jack
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