Help - Trouble with DPC website - DPChallenge Forums

01/31/2007 04:00:33 PM · #1

Does anyone else experience 'timeout' problems when selecting photos to view on DPC? My computer works fine at first then after about 10 mins, everytime I select a photo to view, it takes ages to load and then eventually times out. I then have to restart my pc. I don't have 'timeout' problems on the forums though.

This happens at work too, so I'm sure it has nothing to do with my home computer. It's very frustrating, especially when I've had a bad hair day! Hubby is keeping his distance, just in case. lol.

TechnoShroom

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

01/31/2007 04:05:07 PM · #2

You have to restart your PC because of a website timing out?

01/31/2007 04:06:13 PM · #3

Well, the rest of the computer works fine but if I want DPC to work properly, I have to shut down. Does that sound weird? Don't know much about computers.

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

01/31/2007 04:06:30 PM · #4

At work I am unable to view certain images/thumbnails. They never load, just gray.
At home it works fine.

DjFenzl

01/31/2007 04:08:06 PM · #5

What browser are you using?

Norton and Adblock can prevent certain images from not loading on the site.

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

01/31/2007 04:09:55 PM · #6

Originally posted by giega:

At work I am unable to view certain images/thumbnails. They never load, just gray.
At home it works fine.

The ad blocking portion of Norton Internet Security is one of the main culprits for other members here too. You can fix it without disabling ad blocking also.

1. Go to the ad blocking and choose the 'configure' option.

2. Press the 'advanced' button to configure ad blocking for individual websites.

3. Press the 'add site' button to add 'www.dpchallenge.com' to the sites list.

4. Select 'www.dpchallenge.com' from the list and then press the 'add' button.

5. In the html string window, enter "/" without the quotation marks and select the 'permit' radio button.

6. Press OK and work your way back to the top level.

01/31/2007 04:10:19 PM · #7

It happens in both FireFox 2 and IE 6. Same laptop at home - no problem.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

01/31/2007 04:10:20 PM · #8

AOL 9.0

The weird thing is that once I have shut down and restarted, the same images that I had trouble with before, load in a whizz!

FireBird

01/31/2007 04:12:44 PM · #9

Originally posted by Trinity_12_12:

Well, the rest of the computer works fine but if I want DPC to work properly, I have to shut down. Does that sound weird? Don't know much about computers.

I was going to suggest running anti-spyware and anti-virus programs on your computer, especially if it's not an apple. But....... I saw you were from the UK. I hear your internets pipes are round as opposed to the square tubes we use on our internetz. It could be the rectangular images are getting caught katy-cornered in the tubes. ;)

BeeCee

Nikon D40

01/31/2007 04:12:52 PM · #10

I find my old beast does that sometimes too; the more I move around on the site the slower it gets, closing and reopening it sometimes works, not always. Clearing my temp files seems to do the trick though...
I guess I need a new computer, eh? Anyone wanna tell hubby for me? :)

01/31/2007 04:14:44 PM · #11

Originally posted by BradP:

Originally posted by giega:
At work I am unable to view certain images/thumbnails. They never load, just gray.
At home it works fine.

The ad blocking portion of Norton Internet Security is one of the main culprits for other members here too. You can fix it without disabling ad blocking also.

1. Go to the ad blocking and choose the 'configure' option.

2. Press the 'advanced' button to configure ad blocking for individual websites.

3. Press the 'add site' button to add 'www.dpchallenge.com' to the sites list.

4. Select 'www.dpchallenge.com' from the list and then press the 'add' button.

5. In the html string window, enter "/" without the quotation marks and select the 'permit' radio button.

6. Press OK and work your way back to the top level.

I have Norton Corporate Edition, there is no blocking. For example, this image:

doesn't load.

Message edited by author 2007-01-31 16:16:27.

01/31/2007 04:14:45 PM · #12

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/31/2007 04:16:29 PM · #13

Originally posted by BradP:

Thanks for the suggestion

bradp. Will try anything!

Canon EOS-20D

01/31/2007 04:18:49 PM · #14

Here's a thread from earlier today that mentions the same problem so it looks like it's not just you. I've had two separate occasions recently where all of DPC wouldn't load for me but haven't noticed much problem with individual photos.

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

01/31/2007 04:27:42 PM · #15

There are certain times of the day also, that the site hangs up for a bit, and every night at 1am PST here in the US, the site does it's database maintenance, compression, clean-up, etc and the entire site will hang for a few minutes, generally about 4-5 minutes.

Strikeslip

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

01/31/2007 04:30:59 PM · #16

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

01/31/2007 04:39:09 PM · #17

hahaha - soon as I saw your name, the router thing from eons ago came to mind.
:)

Strikeslip

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

01/31/2007 04:58:44 PM · #18

Originally posted by mk:

I've done some troubleshooting and have determined that the actual INTERNET is at fault. I am currently working to remedy the situation by optimizing the INTERNET, which resides on the G-drive of my PC. Thank you for your patience.