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Why don't some websites work with Firefox on certain wireless connections?
Matt Wood | Apr 18 2006
I know this may not be the best place to ask this question, but I'm comfortable here and I trust you cats to give me a straight answer before a bunch of (even more) highly-strung zealots on a browser message board. Can anyone explain why some websites just won't work with Firefox on some wireless connections? Here's my problem: there is a coffee shop in my neighborhood with great coffee, good food, and free wi-fi, so I spend a lot of time there. But I can't for the life of me get some sites to open through Firefox (on a Mac) via their connection, major sites like the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and my bank, not just my crackpot uncle's blog served out of a Commodore 64 in his basement. I sometimes have luck with Safari, but even with that I can't connect to my bank's site. When I'm at home and just about any place else, they all work fine. I can understand if their net connection was just generally crappy, but most sites, RSS, and other things work fine. Why would it crap out on just a few? 2 Comments
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 My initial reaction is that...Submitted by michaelramm on April 19, 2006 - 6:06am.
My initial reaction is that there is not enough *stable* bandwidth to server the high technological needs of a lot of the websites that you mentioned. A lot of high profile sites use java, flash, and other technologies to serve their pages and those technologies take up such a great amount of bandwidth that there is a bottleneck somewhere between the wireless router and your machine. Are you able to view these sites when you are plugged into a hardline internet connections (ethernet cable)? Also, the fact that there are probably so many people at said coffee shop (for the good joe, grub, and free wifi) that the amount of packets of information are banging around a lot and slowing the sites down. I think that if you were at a wifi spot with little or no competition for the 'airspace' you might see a difference and see those sites that you mentioned. /turn of geekiness Michael » POSTED IN:
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