Extraordinary delay in accessing web-site

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu May 2 11:53:32 UTC 2013


On 05/02/13 18:00, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> On 04/29/13 03:30, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> I have a Linksys WVC54GCA camera in a remote site,
>>> which I access at http://xyz.com:8080 on one of my Fedora-18 laptops.
>>>
>>> For some reason there is now a delay of an hour or so
>>> in getting the image on my laptop.
>> Does it matter where your laptop is?  If you go to your local coffee shop
>> and use their Wifi do you also have the problem?
> Thanks very much for your advice.
> I found there was the same delay with the laptop in an internet cafe.
> I've also found I have the same problem with my Android phone
> (Samsung Galaxy S2, Android version 4.0.4).
> But I don't have the problem on my CentOS-6.4 server, or on Windows XP.

I would say that comes under the heading of curiouser and curiouser.

>> Have you tried using WireShark or another network tool to see if you're
>> getting data from the remote site and/or getting dropped or re-transmitted
>> frames.
> I've forgotten how to use wireshark -
> I'll look for a tutorial and try what you suggest.
>
> Looking at another thread, I was wondering if the problem
> could be something to do with ipv6.
> I think that is disabled on my laptop, but I'll check it.
>  
Hard to believe that it would have anything to do with IPv6.  I'm guessing that xyx.com doesn't have an IPv6 address.  Also, your Samsung phone also exhibits the same symptoms and it probably doesn't have IPv6 enabled either.

Good luck with wireshark.  The interface has probably changed since the last time you used it.  

Oh, one more thing....  Have you tried using the IP address instead of the hostname?


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