One more thing. Often times if you request a page (or try to post something) and it stalls for a really long time, the problem is that your packets got dropped somewhere. If you hit stop and try again, it will often go right through. If you have submitted a post and it is stalled while still on the posting screen, most likely the post has actually gone through, and you are just stalled waiting for the redirection to the page where you would view the post you just make. So if you stop and do it again you'll get a double post. If you think you are stalled hit stop and try it again, or in the case of posting, hit stop and then check if it got posted. I know this is a pain, but this is a matter of network topology (and me not spending any money on hosting the site) rather than design (he says somewhat defensively.) I've heard that packet loss can occasionally reach 10% going through MAE West, although that seems a little hard to believe. Still, slow might mean lost rather than slow.
I've experienced the stalled post window, double post thing
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- jim 3-08-2001 8:14 pm
I've experienced the stalled post window, double post thing
- steve 3-08-2001 10:56 pm [add a comment]