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Hey there Aviator!
Interesting one this! It might be down to the optimisation
I would suggest downloading the VMC version 9.2, and uninstalling your current version of the suite (if it's VMC Lite, you can leave it, it'll be fine). Then reboot and install the 9.2, remembering to select Custom install and choose Optimisation as a feature. Once loaded, you'll be able to turn off the optimisation, which streamlines images, but on occasion can cause issue with certain content.
Other than this, I recommend trying a newer version of browser or another one - Safari and Firefox are great alternatives to IE, and I personally would choose either over Internet Explorer.
Let us know how you get on - is anyone else suffering this strange issue by chance?
In regards to the signal fault, this is unfortunate to hear. Sadly we can't always call back when a problem is resolved as it could potentially affect a large number of customers - I agree ideally this would be excellent to do, but is currently impractical as we're all hard at work resolving outstanding issues
If you were quoted a reference to go with the fault, we can always look this up for you as to an update!
Daz
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Interesting one this! It might be down to the optimisation
I would suggest downloading the VMC version 9.2, and uninstalling your current version of the suite (if it's VMC Lite, you can leave it, it'll be fine). Then reboot and install the 9.2, remembering to select Custom install and choose Optimisation as a feature. Once loaded, you'll be able to turn off the optimisation, which streamlines images, but on occasion can cause issue with certain content.
Other than this, I recommend trying a newer version of browser or another one - Safari and Firefox are great alternatives to IE, and I personally would choose either over Internet Explorer.
Let us know how you get on - is anyone else suffering this strange issue by chance?
In regards to the signal fault, this is unfortunate to hear. Sadly we can't always call back when a problem is resolved as it could potentially affect a large number of customers - I agree ideally this would be excellent to do, but is currently impractical as we're all hard at work resolving outstanding issues
If you were quoted a reference to go with the fault, we can always look this up for you as to an update!
Daz
eForum Team
PS... why not check out our Online Services today for a look at Online Billing? It's a great way to manage your account with us, and so simple
I don't know in great detail exactly how web-traffic works, but given that Vodafone has NAT routing (and it's transforming proxies), I wonder whether all of all Vodafone's mobile broadband customers appear to external websites to be one very very active customer (all coming from a single, or very small set of IP addresses) and whether those websites' servers limit the total number of connections per customer/IP ... which might cause bottlenecks with popular sites...?
That's a good theory there techmind. The IP's are shared, using both NAT and PAT, so the affected websites could very well be employing "anti-hammering" techniques on Vodafone customers.
That problem will go away as soon as we switch to Public IP addressing, but it's something I don't think we've taken into account before. The problem is going to be figuring out a way to test it.
Jon
eForum Team
That's a good theory there techmind. The IP's are shared, using both NAT and PAT, so the affected websites could very well be employing "anti-hammering" techniques on Vodafone customers.
Then again, you might expect that Vodafone's cacheing servers/proxies would greatly reduce the traffic seen by the external websites if this were in fact a potential problem - though the cacheing may be less effective if the sites are substantially dynamic and can't be cached properly.
On the other hand, if too many Vodafone customers are hitting ctrl+F5 and/or using Firefox with "no-cache" header modifications (to circumvent Vodafone's image-compression) then VF cacheing will be less effective and a lot more "duplicate" traffic requests will be put out onto the internet... Another reason to hurry up and get rid of the compression/"transformation" proxies?
Then again, you might expect that Vodafone's cacheing servers/proxies would greatly reduce the traffic seen by the external websites if this were in fact a potential problem - though the cacheing may be less effective if the sites are substantially dynamic and can't be cached properly.
On the other hand, if too many Vodafone customers are hitting ctrl+F5 and/or using Firefox with "no-cache" header modifications (to circumvent Vodafone's image-compression) then VF cacheing will be less effective and a lot more "duplicate" traffic requests will be put out onto the internet... Another reason to hurry up and get rid of the compression/"transformation" proxies?
I've been asked to add a couple of web sites that i'm having problems getting into to this thread so they can be tested:-
www.techradar.com - get a 400 Bad request error.
www.halifax.co.uk - can't get in at the top level but can search in google and get in at a sub level.
www.telegraph.co.uk - as other people have mentioned - it also takes ages to load for me aswell.
