Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 874 from 2007/4/9
From: Kingston upon ...
As
posted previously, I had been having problems with slow loading of some pages under OWB, and has previously found a workaround of using stop & refresh to speed up the page loading.
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3) Slow rendering of certain pages (CSS issue?)
Particularly noticeable on facebook.
If I navigate to www.facebook.com, the page can take around 35 seconds to display (according to the network activity box, this is whilst loading a couple of css files).
If, however, I navigate to www.facebook.com, then immediately stop the page from loading, then refresh - the page displays almost instantly.
Wee-eird, dude!
I've now solved this problem for my setup, and since others posted similar experiences, I thought my solution may prove useful:
My network consists of:
Clients connected to a wireless router.
The wireless router is connected to a modem-router.
The modem-router is connected to the internet.
(Now hear da words of da Lord)
The modem-router (provided by ISP) has the following config
(WAN IP ---.---.---.---, LAN IP 192.168.1.254)
The wirelss router
(WAN IP 192.168.1.1, LAN IP 192.168.0.1)
The clients:
(IP 192.168.0.---)
When setting up the network under MorphOS (Settings>System>Network) I had basically been lazy, and set both Gateway and DNS to 192.168.0.1.
Having recently changed the MorphOS network settings to set the DNS as 192.168.1.254 (my modem-router's LAN-side IP address), this has solved all issues for me. (The Gateway obviously remains as 192.168.0.1)
I would guess it was something to do with slow request forwarding between the routers for certain sites. It seemed to mainly occur on rich-content pages requiring many connections (eg Guardian.co.uk, Facebook.com).
Whether this solution is specific to my dodgy setup or is helpful to others remains to be seen. Either way - Yay! OWB now flies as it should.
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