I am baffled by IT and as such cannot figure out why I keep getting the time-out screen when I surf the internet. I use an expensive connection from PacNet (supposedly 4MB/512KB), but a speedtest tells me I do not get anywhere near that speed.

Whenever I use the internet, the connection times out very quickly. I know already from the moment I click and I see "Connecting to....", it will freeze out on me. It happens without warning, and very often. I have a Dell which is somewhat older, just ordered a new HP, so I hope it is the computer that gives me this trouble. I use Firefox. It is not just when I am waiting for a download, it happens when I play cards on line, wait for a site to load or when browsing YouTube.

Thanks for any help you may have for me.

Nick (the frustrated)

I use FF and have been having problems with timing out very quickly while trying to load pages though I'm not experiencing the other problems you mention. I uninstalled FF then reinstalled which fixed the problem, had to do it again yesterday as started timing out again. So far, so good again

I use FF and have been having problems with timing out very quickly while trying to load pages though I'm not experiencing the other problems you mention. I uninstalled FF then reinstalled which fixed the problem, had to do it again yesterday as started timing out again. So far, so good again

Thanks, will give that a try, I only hope I do not need to reload the program first...

How do you connect ?

If and when it happen to me have found the best option is to switch off the Router, when I switch it back on no problem, was told long ago that you get static build up, so switching off/un-plug will clear the problem........... No idea just it works for me

PS Not just the Modem, same happen with the Sat box and work perfect after switching off.

I had the same problem my mate told me to change the pipeline settings from false to true seems to work for me.

in the url type about:config

I had the same problem my mate told me to change the pipeline settings from false to true seems to work for me.

in the url type about:config

which ones did you change, there are 3 with the word "pipelining" and "false" setting?

I changed this one to 'true' as my FF started timing out again network.http.pipelining;true works great now

I changed this one to 'true' as my FF started timing out again network.http.pipelining;true works great now

Thanks

yeah I changed all three from false to true

yeah I changed all three from false to true

The warning didn't bother you?

Definite improvement - thanks

-redwood

nah!

http://hubpages.com/hub/Optimizing-FireFox...acks-And-Tweaks

Here's a few more (just in case you thought TL had a monopoly on hubs).