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Browser issue??

Dec 29, 2006 9:43AM PST

I have a problem where my Browser sometimes will not load all of a website or sometimes any of the site. This only occurs on some sites and not all the time. www.evite.com, and www.indystar.com are where I see most frequently.

On evite it usually loads everything except the sections where the guests are listed and you reply. On a rare ocasion it loads it all. And every once in a while it won't pull anything up.

On indystar.com when I click on link for an article it sometimes pulls up ads, a column on the left with headlines and other things except the article itself. A refresh usually resolves this.

I am on a wireless home network, but this occurs if a use a wired network as well. I have also had the same issues on other wired and wireless networks so I do not believe it is network related.

This is a laptop running Win XP SP2 1.6 Ghz Pentium 504 MB Ram
Firefox 2.0.0.1 and IE 7.0 I had the problem before upgrading to FF 2 and IE 7 as well.

I have another machine with WinME that works with out problems so I am guessing there is some setting or conflict on this machine.

I have tried shutting down Spybot, Zone Alarm, PCCillian, Yahoo messenger one at a time and all at once and get the same result.

I have not been able to determine a difference between when it works and when it doesn't.

I can not pinpoint this to starting after anything was installed.

Any Ideas?

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Additional Info
Dec 29, 2006 9:47AM PST

Forgot to mention that on a lot of sites, it appears to load, but the status bar on the lower right of Firefox is one bar from complete and the circle in the upper right continues to sping

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(NT) Try clearing the cache.
Dec 29, 2006 10:27PM PST
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Also...
Dec 29, 2006 10:42PM PST

Run some programs such as,spybot,ad-aware,avg anti virus,and avg anti spyware or what ever you prefer and see if anything shows up

Tom

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Tried those
Dec 29, 2006 10:57PM PST

I have cleaned cache, run spybot, spysweeper, antivirus adaware still no luck

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You do know about that quake in Asia?
Dec 29, 2006 11:02PM PST

While the internet is fairly robust, it's not guaranteed delivery. Some items may take time to get to your machine and they timeout. So you don't get it until you refresh. Why a refresh can work is due to AKAMAI servers that see your request and start requesting the content closer to you.

If refresh works and most sites just work I don't fix it.

Bob