Extraordinary delay in accessing web-site

[Ed Greshko]

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.
> This occurs on both my Fedora-18/KDE laptops,
> whether connected by WiFi or ethernet,
> and whether using Firefox, Chrome or Konqueror.
> But it does not occur - I get an immediate view -
> running Windows XP on the same laptops,
> or on my server running CentOS-6.4.
>
> With Firefox I get the message "Connecting to ..."
> and then (endlessly) "Transferring data from ...".
>
> Any enlightenment gratefully received.
>
>

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?

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.

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