Internet Connection Hangs Between Links

I am having problems with the speed of accessing links I click on while on the Internet. I am running Windows 98SE and IE 6.0. I have a US Robotics modem and dial up to a 56K local ISP. I have a 1 GHz CPU and 256 MB of RAM.

My problem is that sometimes when I click on a link, I see the hourglass showing that I did in fact click on the link but if I click on the two, small green computers to look at the bytes being sent and received, they do not change. This may stay this way for 30 seconds to 1 minute before the “bytes received” starts to show activity and the link appears. I have repaired IE 6 and tried a different modem but to no avail. I added a new MB and CPU and did not notice this problem prior to this.

Do you think with the limited amount of info provided that this is a software issue, hardware issue, or an ISP problem? I am connecting at 49.333 KBPS, which is very good for a 56K dialup.

Thanks!

Jeff

[quote]Originally posted by Farrar:
<strong>I am having problems with the speed of accessing links I click on while on the Internet. I am running Windows 98SE and IE 6.0. I have a US Robotics modem and dial up to a 56K local ISP. I have a 1 GHz CPU and 256 MB of RAM.

My problem is that sometimes when I click on a link, I see the hourglass showing that I did in fact click on the link but if I click on the two, small green computers to look at the bytes being sent and received, they do not change. This may stay this way for 30 seconds to 1 minute before the “bytes received” starts to show activity and the link appears. I have repaired IE 6 and tried a different modem but to no avail. I added a new MB and CPU and did not notice this problem prior to this.

Do you think with the limited amount of info provided that this is a software issue, hardware issue, or an ISP problem? I am connecting at 49.333 KBPS, which is very good for a 56K dialup.

Thanks!

Jeff</strong><hr></blockquote>

I think that it sounds like a ISP problem. I had this problem with a computer at work, i believed they fixed it with a new modem. Any way to try a different ISP, say a friend with AOHell or something to borrow his SN for a few minutes of surfing?

Just a thought.

GL

I don't think it is an ISP issue, I was getting the same thing.

Try going to windows update's site (tools->windows update) select the product updates and look for the "Internet Explorer Navigation Sound Update" it's listed in the 'recommended updates' section. It seems to have helped me, and it's a very small download.

Also I would advise that you do the critical updates if you haven't already.

~good luck, and keep us posted :)

Thanks craigmodius!

I downloaded the update and everything is working great now.


Thaks again,

Jeff

no problem, happy to help.

thanks for posting the results, and not leaving a mystery behind, alotta people don't do that :rolleyes:

Well, I spoke too soon. It did seem to work but it must have just been a "good day". Since I first posted I have tried another modem and upgraded from IE 5.5 to IE 6 with no luck. I have tried another computer some few miles away connecting to the same ISP and they connect at 50.6 KBPS and have no problems. My average connection speed is 45.3 KBPS. I have tried connecting to another ISP from my computer and the problem is still present. Using an online line speed test shows these results:

Connection Summary
Number of tests 1
Average Download Speed 58.82 KBits/sec 7.35 KBytes/sec
Average Upload Speed 34.79 KBits/sec 4.35 KBytes/sec

I am now thinking my problem might be in the phone line.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jeff Farrar

[quote]Originally posted by Farrar:
<strong>Well, I spoke too soon. It did seem to work but it must have just been a "good day". Since I first posted I have tried another modem and upgraded from IE 5.5 to IE 6 with no luck. I have tried another computer some few miles away connecting to the same ISP and they connect at 50.6 KBPS and have no problems. My average connection speed is 45.3 KBPS. I have tried connecting to another ISP from my computer and the problem is still present. Using an online line speed test shows these results:

Connection Summary
Number of tests 1
Average Download Speed 58.82 KBits/sec 7.35 KBytes/sec
Average Upload Speed 34.79 KBits/sec 4.35 KBytes/sec

I am now thinking my problem might be in the phone line.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jeff Farrar</strong><hr></blockquote>

I gotta say, those are pretty damn good numbers for dialup! The IE6 hanging is just the silly click.wav - disable it in sounds.

could be the ping times are very high. try pinging a known fast site,

"The IE6 hanging is just the silly click.wav - disable it in sounds."

I did a search for this file but I do not show it at all.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jeff

Goto Control Panel / Sounds and select the No Sound Scheme. This should see if it is the 'sound' stopping the transfer process.

Thanks...I'll try that and see if it solves the problem. I'll post back and let you know.

Thanks Again,

Jeff

Well, that did not work either. I am going to run a new phone line and if that does not work I will format and reinstall.

Thanks!

Jeff

Maybe you have some extra protocols and/or bindings in your NEtwork control panel that are causing the problem. Could you please post a list of what's there?

I have NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, and of course, TCP/IP listed as protocols."Advanced Options" has ONLY "Enable Software Compression" checked.

On the "TCP/IP" properties sheet:

"Server Assigned IP Address" IS checked.

"Specify Name Server" is checked with the IP adresses of the primary and secondary servers.

Use IP header compression and default gateway is also checked on this page.

I hope this helps!

Thanks for the time,

Jeff

You can remove IPX/SPX - you only need that if you are on a Novell Netware network. Don't remove Netbeui, but you can unbind it by viewing its properties.

[quote]Well, I spoke too soon. It did seem to work but it must have just been a "good day". Since I first posted I have tried another modem and upgraded from IE 5.5 to IE 6 with no luck<hr></blockquote>

I think I was back in the same boat with you. I too saw a change for "a good day" or two, then back to the same old link hanging behavior. Since then I restored the previous IE config to IE 5.5, and have been running just fine since. I think it's a IE 6 issue :rolleyes:

Try going back to 5.5 I don't think it's a ISP, Modem or Phone Line issue. IMHO.

Keep Us Posted~

There is a javascript bug in IE that may be the cause of your problem. I have it on my machine and I've seen it on others, but there are definitely machines that seem to be unaffected.

The problem lies in the window.open() function. If you pass a non-null window handle (the second argument) to that function, IE hangs for 5-30 or so seconds, until the new window pops up. However, if you don't name the handle (pass a null value as the handle), the window will pop up instantly. So, it depends on how the webmaster of whatever website has coded the function... if they've named the handle, it'll temporarily hang IE.

I put a simple test page demonstrating this on my website: <a href="http://nodivisions.com/javascripttest.htm" target="_blank">nodivisions.com/javascripttest.htm</a> . Try it out and let me know how it goes.

Hope this helps,
Anthony
<a href="http://nodivisions.com" target="_blank">NoDivisions.com</a>

Ok here we go yet another dialup problem....

Follow me on this epic journey!

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Modem > Click on the modem > Click on Properties > Click on Properties > Connection > Advanced

Extra Settings : at&f&c1&d2&k3

Try that.. if that does not work.. try just using atz