On the free wi-fi connection at the library I often get "Internet Explorer
cannot display the webpage". AFAICT nothing wrong either with my laptop or
any website - but probably because the routers seem to have very large
latencies as somebody mentioned - some others have this problem too. This
happens at random for any website. Refreshing the page mostly gets
everything working again.

I do not have this problem using free wi-fi at other locations.

Is there some setting in the registry that will increase the time-out
period? And/or what other factors do I need to look into?

Regards and thanks for any insights.

JP
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Re: Frequent time-outs (?) on library Wi-Fi by Malke

Malke
Mon Apr 28 14:10:48 PDT 2008

JP wrote:

> On the free wi-fi connection at the library I often get "Internet Explorer
> cannot display the webpage". AFAICT nothing wrong either with my laptop or
> any website - but probably because the routers seem to have very large
> latencies as somebody mentioned - some others have this problem too. This
> happens at random for any website. Refreshing the page mostly gets
> everything working again.
>
> I do not have this problem using free wi-fi at other locations.
>
> Is there some setting in the registry that will increase the time-out
> period? And/or what other factors do I need to look into?

This probably has nothing to do with your computer. The issues you are
experiencing are often caused by bad network hardware, too many computers
on one wireless access point, possible misconfiguration of the wireless
router, etc. Nothing that is in your control.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

Re: Frequent time-outs (?) on library Wi-Fi by JP

JP
Tue Apr 29 04:54:01 PDT 2008

My response at bottom:
"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:erE$VRXqIHA.2188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> JP wrote:
>
>> On the free wi-fi connection at the library I often get "Internet
>> Explorer
>> cannot display the webpage". AFAICT nothing wrong either with my laptop
>> or
>> any website - but probably because the routers seem to have very large
>> latencies as somebody mentioned - some others have this problem too. This
>> happens at random for any website. Refreshing the page mostly gets
>> everything working again.
>>
>> I do not have this problem using free wi-fi at other locations.
>>
>> Is there some setting in the registry that will increase the time-out
>> period? And/or what other factors do I need to look into?
>
> This probably has nothing to do with your computer. The issues you are
> experiencing are often caused by bad network hardware, too many computers
> on one wireless access point, possible misconfiguration of the wireless
> router, etc. Nothing that is in your control.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic!


Thanks for the informative response. You are very likely right - I do not
have such problems with other connections.

Regards and thanks.

JP
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