Browser Often Hangs, Never Finishes Loading APge 1

[JohnBates]

hi experts,

i'm having a weird symptom with both IE 6 (SP1) and Firefox.

Many sites I visit dont quite finishing loading the page.

It "hangs" after loading what looks like all the content,
status bar may say "1 image remaining" (or something like that, or may say "Loading..." The IE globe is turning.

I Clear the cache often

I have DSL and download speed is 1100 kbps (checked it tonight)

I have Norton Firewall - thought that may be the problem but I've had it for 2 years.

This is more an annoyance that a problem - The page seems to always fully load.

Any idea what the problem may be?

Thanks, John

 

[bcastner]

It could well be an MTU issue. Windows will default to an MTU of 1500, but your DSL connection has a smaller MTU. Most DSL connection use a 1492 MTU, although 1400 is more appropriate for AOL DSL.

Test for a valid MTU, and then use DrTCP to set the correct value:

Test:

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

DrTCP:

http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp

 

[JohnBates]

thanks bcaster,

I ran it - The notes said "Good data stream", "Looking good"
No recommendations

I've had DSL for a year, this problem only about 3 days.

John

 

[JohnBates]

oops, Correction

It did recommend a change to MTU and to RWIN.

 

[bcastner]

Run IEFix:

http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/IEFIX.htm

If you are not completely patched:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823386