+swegeman Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 When I try to do any from the home page of Geocaching.com(search Wayoints or other then going to the home page) my laptop takes 5-10 minutes for the page to load. When on my home computer it takes seconds. I have duplicated the settings exactly. This only happens on the geocaching web page not any other web site. I use the laptop for work and can do streaming video and many high data downloads with no problems what so ever. I also have a Broadband Wireless card from Sprint and would like to log my find while onsite. I works the same if plugged directly to the network, using wirless card to network and braodband card. i have checked the data speed of 100mb wired, 54Mb wireless and 75 Mb with broadband card. Does any body have any suggestions why this is? I have be using computers for many, many years and am stumoed!! Pleae help?? Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Hm. I wish I could help you. I'm sure it must just be some technical fix, because I always use my laptop and haven't ever noticed this issue. Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 When I try to do any from the home page of Geocaching.com(search Wayoints or other then going to the home page) my laptop takes 5-10 minutes for the page to load. When on my home computer it takes seconds. I have duplicated the settings exactly. This only happens on the geocaching web page not any other web site. I use the laptop for work and can do streaming video and many high data downloads with no problems what so ever. I also have a Broadband Wireless card from Sprint and would like to log my find while onsite. I works the same if plugged directly to the network, using wirless card to network and braodband card. i have checked the data speed of 100mb wired, 54Mb wireless and 75 Mb with broadband card. Does any body have any suggestions why this is? I have be using computers for many, many years and am stumoed!! Pleae help?? A quick list to look at: Slower processor Lower and/or slower RAM Not enough disk space for the swap page file to work efficiently Swap page file might be too big Virus checking realtime dowloads Too many TSRs running in the background (spyware is good for this) Not enough info to narrow down the problem but you have proven it isn't Groundspeak causing the issue. Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 ...I have be using computers for many, many years and am stumoed!! Pleae help?? Well...then you should know that sometimes dumb things happen. Some command, HTML code, or something else used by GC (but not a lot of other sites) is conflicting wiht something on your computer that's not working like it shoud. My kids could not watch Youtube videos on one computer. They did something. Everthing else worked fine. Time to reformat? Link to comment
+blb9556 Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Your Internet speed is faster than mine and mine is fine. It could be RAM, it could be a virus you never know. What kind of computer are you using? I use a dell dimension 3000 and a Apple iPod Touch (good Internet capibility's!) Link to comment
+kidcobalt Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I use my laptop all the time-No problem. Link to comment
+Miragee Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 When I try to do any from the home page of Geocaching.com(search Wayoints or other then going to the home page) my laptop takes 5-10 minutes for the page to load. When on my home computer it takes seconds. I have duplicated the settings exactly. This only happens on the geocaching web page not any other web site. I use the laptop for work and can do streaming video and many high data downloads with no problems what so ever. I also have a Broadband Wireless card from Sprint and would like to log my find while onsite. I works the same if plugged directly to the network, using wirless card to network and braodband card. i have checked the data speed of 100mb wired, 54Mb wireless and 75 Mb with broadband card. Does any body have any suggestions why this is? I have be using computers for many, many years and am stumoed!! Pleae help?? What browser are you using? I use my DELL laptop for searching using the Opera browser and Searching goes fast. On my slow dialup connection, Opera is faster than either Firefox or IE. Link to comment
+Tharagleb Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 (edited) It could also be the Google Toolbar. If you using IE and Google Toolbar try disabling it and see if your slowness goes away. If that fixes then try the new beta Google Toolbar. This worked for me on one of my machines. Edited June 9, 2008 by Tharagleb Link to comment
+Harriet the Spy Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I can't help as to why the search page is slow for you. But you might try these sights for workarounds. This page will add geocaching specific search boxes to your browser's search engine Geocaching quick links lets you search for just about anything on the site. Link to comment
+ReadyOrNot Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 When I try to do any from the home page of Geocaching.com(search Wayoints or other then going to the home page) my laptop takes 5-10 minutes for the page to load. When on my home computer it takes seconds. I have duplicated the settings exactly. This only happens on the geocaching web page not any other web site. I use the laptop for work and can do streaming video and many high data downloads with no problems what so ever. I also have a Broadband Wireless card from Sprint and would like to log my find while onsite. I works the same if plugged directly to the network, using wirless card to network and braodband card. i have checked the data speed of 100mb wired, 54Mb wireless and 75 Mb with broadband card. Does any body have any suggestions why this is? I have be using computers for many, many years and am stumoed!! Pleae help?? Sometimes a corrupted cache index can cause problems similar to what you are describing.. Deleting the cache is not enough though, you must manually delete the cache index... Here's some information: Corrupt Cache Fix Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I saw something similar once on a client's pc. The ISP they were using had just installed a page caching server and had some misconfigured settings causing dynamic site's like Groundspeak to run dramatically slower than normal. A call to thier tech support got them to tweak things. Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 It could also be the Google Toolbar. If you using IE and Google Toolbar try disabling it and see if your slowness goes away. If that fixes then try the new beta Google Toolbar. This worked for me on one of my machines. I use IE7Pro, I like it better. Link to comment
+swegeman Posted June 10, 2008 Author Share Posted June 10, 2008 I Finally figured it out! It was Symantec Client Server! It was see www.geocaching.com as an intruder. I had to goto the Log Viewer to pickit up. in the intrusion Prevention files it said: Intrusion detected and blocked. All communication with www.geocaching.com(66.150.167.150) will be blocked for 30 minutes. Intrusion: HTTP MS IE Object Element Data DoS. Intruder: www.geocaching.com(66.150.167.150)(http(80)). Risk Level: Medium. Protocol: TCP. Attacked IP: localhost. Attacked Port: 3510. So I had to configure the Intrusion Prevention to Exclude ww.geocaching.com as an Intruder!! Now everything works great. But why would it see GC as an Intuder?? Link to comment
+baloo&bd Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 First, i would clear my cache and cookies, run Ad-Aware and Spybot, defrag the hard drive, and if I still had a problem, would log into http://www.castlecops.com and follow the directions there. Link to comment
+baloo&bd Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 I Finally figured it out! It was Symantec Client Server! It was see www.geocaching.com as an intruder. I had to goto the Log Viewer to pickit up. in the intrusion Prevention files it said: Intrusion detected and blocked. All communication with www.geocaching.com(66.150.167.150) will be blocked for 30 minutes. Intrusion: HTTP MS IE Object Element Data DoS. Intruder: www.geocaching.com(66.150.167.150)(http(80)). Risk Level: Medium. Protocol: TCP. Attacked IP: localhost. Attacked Port: 3510. So I had to configure the Intrusion Prevention to Exclude ww.geocaching.com as an Intruder!! Now everything works great. But why would it see GC as an Intuder?? Should have read that before the last post. I never run IE, too many issues. I run Firefox or you could try Opera and not waste the time trying to figure out why. Link to comment
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