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meara - Sep 13, 2007 2:31:53 pm PDT #2749 of 25496

I've been trying to access the Seattle bus map for days, and it never works for me--the pages may partly load, but certainly not fully. Can anyone else get here or is it an issue with my computer/wireless? (Note: other websites are JUST FINE). If it is my issue...wtf?


Juliebird - Sep 13, 2007 2:47:01 pm PDT #2750 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Thanks, Steph, I really can't bring myself to bother with trying to sell it.


Juliebird - Sep 13, 2007 2:47:38 pm PDT #2751 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

meara, webpage came up for me fine, and I'm on wireless.


tommyrot - Sep 13, 2007 2:58:12 pm PDT #2752 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Works fine for me. I'm mystified why the loading fails partway through.

You could try clearing your cache and see if that helps....


meara - Sep 13, 2007 7:17:55 pm PDT #2753 of 25496

It works for everyone but me? Damn. I tried clearing the cache just now too (um, you mean just hit the "clear cache" button under preferences in Firefox, right? There's nothign more complex than that?)


meara - Sep 14, 2007 8:24:32 am PDT #2754 of 25496

Was still unable to fully load pages of the Seattle bus stuff....apparently it's my internet connection, rather than my computer--I just surfed to a neighbor's open WiFi, and downloaded everything Just Fine.

So, WTF is up with my internet, yo? Why would it not work for that one site/domain? Everything else seems to load fine--b.org, LJ, NYtimes, etc.


tommyrot - Sep 14, 2007 8:28:24 am PDT #2755 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I dunno.

I'm not the web design expert, but I looked at the code and properties of that page and nothing stuck out as particularly strange.

One thing that occurred to me - you know how some pages take forever to load because some ad server is slow? Maybe there's some graphic or somesuch that got blocked by your ISP?

Just a guess.


Mark Eddy - Sep 14, 2007 9:02:59 pm PDT #2756 of 25496
Here I am

meara—I don't know what the odds are that the same thing is happening to you that just happened to me, but I went through a week or two where I thought maybe the internets were slowing down. Certain web sites would take forever to load. But then large files would download speedily. Then one day I came home to find my Airport Express was floating belly up. The light was off and no one was home. Turns out it's a thing. My express was indeed within the range of serial numbers mentioned in the page just linked. I bought a new Express and the internets are once more working at peak capacity. Except when Safari randomly freezes for 30 seconds or more . . .


Theodosia - Sep 15, 2007 3:04:33 am PDT #2757 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I've joined the Vista family as a result of having to buy a new computer and not having any choice in the matter. However, for the paltry few things that I've had to do on it so far, it's just ducky. Will report back later when I've tried to run some of the software I'm supposed to use for school....


meara - Sep 15, 2007 6:23:17 pm PDT #2758 of 25496

Nope, Mark, I'm on a macbook, but using a....something not mac that I'm too lazy to go look at...for wifi. Which probably DOES need to be rebooted or something. Thanks for the suggestion!