router config pages

[Karl Kuehn]

	From what I can tell from trying a number of routers with a number of 
browsers, they tend to have a lot of problems with the actual http side 
of things. These are really dumb devices, and the programmers (had to) 
take too many shortcuts in order to squeeze performance out of them.
	I would expect that things will get much better as improved hardware 
starts to trickle down from the latest round of micro-itx boards that 
are just now hitting the market (not to mention the nano-itx and new 
processors from transmedia). We are just about to replace an old (way 
to expensive... both to buy, and to have someone configure) PIX 
firewall, and the new $500 box will be faster, user configurable (I 
have to be replaceable by a monkey... and an untrained one at that), 
have transparent proxying, be a mail server, oh, and do the firewall 
duty too.
	If you watched the http traffic really closely i would bet you could 
find out what is going wrong in each case... and that layer of Safari 
and OmniWeb are completely different.

		Karl Kuehn
			larkost at softhome.net

On Jan 6, 2004, at 5:19 PM, Jake Robb wrote:

> I have two broadband routers (on different networks).  One is a Zyxel 
> router
> with integrated DSL modem, and the other is an SMC router with 
> integrated
> print server.  When I load the LAN configuration pages for either of 
> these
> routers, Safari renders a blank page.  OmniWeb 4.5 works perfectly.
>
> I can't explain it.  Anyone?