URL that times out for some users and not others ...

[Michael J Wise]

On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

> Any ideas on how I could track down the problem?

I have a friend who has a similar problem, but it seems to be  
somewhat more generic, and I'm at a loss to explain it.
They have 10.4.8 (client) fully patched, with a buncha stuff loaded  
up, but the problem manifests with Safari.app on certain sites, most  
notably:

	<http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/>
	(They get 4.5 - 4.8 Mbps download speeds, and ... 10 Kbps upload  
speeds, if at all)

And yet, certain other sites work just fine, and ping and traceroutes  
show no apparent issues.

It also causes them to get timeouts when trying to send mail to  
either of two servers that they have credentials for.

At first, I thought it was the LinkSys BEFSR41, so I bought something  
a bit more modern, but the problem persisted....
I've watched tcpdumps, but nothing stands out except a ton of  
unmatched ACKs.
I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall, and have never seen  
anything quite like this before.

And it may be the flip-side of your problem, so I ask here... Anyone  
ever seen this before?
And more specifically, how does one fix it?

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