[off-topic] Bad web page rendering

[Tim White]

Hey Jim

Something to find out would be if you are using HTTP Acceleration or 
only TCP Acceleration. I've seen comments that HTTP Acceleration can 
cause problems, but as it's not enabled for me, I don't know if it does 
or doesn't. (I'm on Skymesh)

It sounds like the pages aren't fully loading the CSS before they 
display. The refresh loads the CSS and all is good.

Something to check would be if you have any packet loss issues. Even a 
small amount of packetloss can be enough to stall the connection that is 
fetching the CSS

You might want to try a Squid proxy (local) to see if that helps.

Tim

On 14/12/12 21:21, Jim Householder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since switching to the NBN Satellite service I have had a really bad 
> run of pages not being displayed properly.
>
> The usual scenario is images are OK, but all the links and menus are 
> underlined text down the left margin.  If I reload the page it usually 
> displays correctly.
>
> Sometimes if there are thumbnails on the page, some will display and 
> others only get the broken image icon.  A reload sometimes fixes it 
> and sometimes not.
>
> I have recently been in the USA and Canada and had no problems there.
>
> I compared the page source of one page before and after reload, and 
> there was no difference.  Considering the number of bits and pieces 
> loaded for each page I suspect the difference was in those that may 
> not have been displayed in the source window.
>
> I have contacted Westnet several times back in September before I left 
> for the other side of the world but they could not find anything 
> wrong.  I have yet to call them now that I'm back.
>
> Is there anything I can look at before I call again?  I'm using the 
> latest firefox.
>
> Thanks
> Jim
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