gaaargh! I want to eat your brains!
Monday, 13 November 2006 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtNope, this isn't the result of way too much Scary Go Round; more accurately, I want to pick your brains if you're of the techno-geek persuasion. (Mmmm, tasty).
See, this I-Burst thing about which I have recently been swearing creatively. In the last few weeks my attempts at web browsing (Firefox) have been dogged by the unhappy tendency for pages to refuse to load: i.e. the little loading icon flashes briefly, then stops, the bottom of the screen says "Done", and absolutely nothing is on the page. Reloading the page gets the same result often up to 20 times before something takes and the damned thing actually loads. Sometimes (particularly with LJ) it loads a shattered version without all the proper formatting. It also tends to load image-heavy pages like Go Fug Yourself without the actual images, although reloading five or six times may cause a random selection of the images to appear. Eventually. The problem is not as acute with downloading e-mail (Thunderbird), but occasionally it can't find the SMTP or POP servers.
I thought that this was the result of the Iburst's lousy signal and wildly swinging signal strength. However! Exactly the same thing happens if I'm on dial-up rather than the Iburst.
Just to add to the randomness and frustration, sometimes rebooting the computer seems to help, although that could simply be about coincidental swings in the Iburst signal.
So, my question to you is, if this isn't actually about the Iburst signal, what could my Evil Landlord possibly have done to create this problem when installing the Iburst? (Which is installed on his computer, btw, which is networked to mine). Settings changed? strange sigils chalked under the hard drive? 10m of network cable randomly passing through mini wormholes in the fabric of reality? deliberate sabotage? It doesn't happen to his computer. Mutter.
I fling myself on your collective mercies, because asking the EL about it is causing him to say, "Hmm, odd, mine doesn't do that" and wander off to play more Rise of Legends.
See, this I-Burst thing about which I have recently been swearing creatively. In the last few weeks my attempts at web browsing (Firefox) have been dogged by the unhappy tendency for pages to refuse to load: i.e. the little loading icon flashes briefly, then stops, the bottom of the screen says "Done", and absolutely nothing is on the page. Reloading the page gets the same result often up to 20 times before something takes and the damned thing actually loads. Sometimes (particularly with LJ) it loads a shattered version without all the proper formatting. It also tends to load image-heavy pages like Go Fug Yourself without the actual images, although reloading five or six times may cause a random selection of the images to appear. Eventually. The problem is not as acute with downloading e-mail (Thunderbird), but occasionally it can't find the SMTP or POP servers.
I thought that this was the result of the Iburst's lousy signal and wildly swinging signal strength. However! Exactly the same thing happens if I'm on dial-up rather than the Iburst.
Just to add to the randomness and frustration, sometimes rebooting the computer seems to help, although that could simply be about coincidental swings in the Iburst signal.
So, my question to you is, if this isn't actually about the Iburst signal, what could my Evil Landlord possibly have done to create this problem when installing the Iburst? (Which is installed on his computer, btw, which is networked to mine). Settings changed? strange sigils chalked under the hard drive? 10m of network cable randomly passing through mini wormholes in the fabric of reality? deliberate sabotage? It doesn't happen to his computer. Mutter.
I fling myself on your collective mercies, because asking the EL about it is causing him to say, "Hmm, odd, mine doesn't do that" and wander off to play more Rise of Legends.
