Problem: Websites Need Multiple Refreshes to Load

[dotnina]

I've been having this problem for a few days now: when I try to access any of a number of sites, I receive a message almost immediately saying that the page could not load. However, when I click refresh once or twice, the page loads. This is happening with about 60% of the sites I visit.

Here's some background info, if it's relevant: my PB is on a wireless firewalled network with two Windows machines. I checked the log for the wireless router and we had two "pings of death" 10 days ago, which apparently can cause packets within a network to be dropped. However, we've had no pings of death since then, and the behavior has only been going on for 5 days anyway.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance!

 

[russed]

have you tried trashing the preference file for the browser you use. do a search for the browser name and there will be a file ending in .plist. delete it and see if that works. it might do!

 

[rdowns]

I've been having this problem for a few days now: when I try to access any of a number of sites, I receive a message almost immediately saying that the page could not load. However, when I click refresh once or twice, the page loads. This is happening with about 60% of the sites I visit.

Here's some background info, if it's relevant: my PB is on a wireless firewalled network with two Windows machines. I checked the log for the wireless router and we had two "pings of death" 10 days ago, which apparently can cause packets within a network to be dropped. However, we've had no pings of death since then, and the behavior has only been going on for 5 days anyway.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Are you on Time Warner? Internet has been very slow in NYC area for the past 2 days. Try resetting your cable modem, if you have one. That did the trick for me.

 

[dotnina]

Thanks guys, I'll try these today and let you know!

I'm on Yahoo DSL ... it's been pretty reliable, which is why I'm trying to find a problem at the computer-level first. I took another look at the router log, and it seems that a computer somehow joined our wireless network this past week, even though we have a firewall and only allow our own computers' MAC addresses. I don't know if that might be related to our internet problems, so I'm going to do some more digging around today.

 

[syniac]

Recognised bug. No rhyme or reason.

 

[daveL]

I have this happen *only* with quote.yahoo.com. Every other site I go to loads the first time. I've always attributed it to a DNS issue of some sort.

 

[blackpeter]

Relief! It's not just me.

I've been using a group of tabbed bookmarks that I visit daily for over a year now and in the last few days, one of the bookmarks won't load until I hit the reload button. Then I noticed it was happening at other sites. This problem is intermittent, and sometimes pages will load with the first try. However, it's been happening enough that I know something is up.

I, too, am behind a firewall and have been for a while now. I'll trash my Safari prefs and monitor the situation.

 

[x86isslow]

its been happening to links for me in firefox. i'll click say, on a macbytes link, and it will tell me that the page can't be loaded.

 

[EMKoper]

Same here...

My wife was complaining of this on our PowerBook using Safari... like a good husband, I didn't immediately believe her (probably user error, right?). Anyway, I then noticed the behavior on my PowerMac using Safari as well. Both have been updated with the latest updates on 28 Oct...

2004-10-28 19:14:42 -0700: Installed "iTunes" (4.7)
2004-10-28 19:17:37 -0700: Installed "QuickTime" (6.5.2)
2004-10-28 19:17:42 -0700: Installed "Security Update 2004-10-27" (1.0)

Ruled out the router and ISP since FireFox on the PC is OK.

Edit: Just did the standard, trashed the prefs and repaired permissions and no change in behavior.

 

[stylum]

Same here

3 macs here, just mine with same symptoms and same updates

 

[daveL]

its been happening to links for me in firefox. i'll click say, on a macbytes link, and it will tell me that the page can't be loaded.

As I said above, my impression has always been that this is really a subtle DNS issue, rather than a bug in Safari, per se. It's just that Safari makes the problem very noticeable. I *think* it has something to do with the way the site publishes their DNS records. In the end, who knows? I don't think it's a big enough problem for Apple to prioritize it.