problems with browsing and attatchments

[oscardog]

Hi there, I have a 2 problems which I believe are related.

Firstly I have a slow internet connection which previously was via a hardwired network with tiscali and is now bt wireless via a dongle, browser is IE8 and fully updated.

When i surf the net very often I cannot view large sites at peak times without receiving the messasge "Internet explorer cannot display the webpage" and offering me a "diagnose connection problems" tab. When I click it always says windows did not find a problem with this connection but when it does this 10 - 15 times in an hour I find this hard to believe.

Problem 2 is I cannot send attatchments larger than about 2-250k via my hotmail account, whenever I try I get the message "Windows did not receive the complete file please try again".

The PC is a homebuilt machine and I cannot remember all the bits and pieces in detail but it scores 5.9 on the windows experience so is reasonably quick (runs MSX at full settings) and it runs very cool.

It seems in both cases as if the time out limits are stopping the operations before they have time to complete tho I may be wrong, I have tried to locate the timeout settings to no avail, can anyone help?

Many thanks.

 

[richc46]

Part 1, if you cannot view the popular sites when busy, it usually means that the server is busy and cannot handle the traffic.

 

[oscardog]

Thanks for the reply Richard.

Yes I do understand and accept that but I have two PC's here and the other one runs XP and its always possible to use that one at busy times, though it does take longer to load the webpages it does do it eventually whereas the vista machine times out.

Also I can send any size attachment off the XP machine but only very small ones on the Vista machine.

Many Thanks

 

[P Richard Y]

Default timeout is 1 minute. To change it, you have to create a new registry entry. MS has an article on how to do that. (NOTE: When you Modify your new entry to enter the time, select the Hexadecimal radio button. You'll see.)

How to change the default keep-alive time-out value in Internet Explorer

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813827)

 

[oscardog]

Many thanks for the link I will try that, notice IE8 is not in the applications list but I guess the same applies.
I have sorted the browsing issue a different way, by using Opera as a browser. It's so much faster than IE8 at least on my machine and it also has a turbo feature for when the net is really gummy.
Thanks again for the help.