Images load slowly, but only from one location

I have an odd problem. Our sites are hosted at a colo facility. When we
access the sites from our office, often times, images will load very slowly.
If I check the same sites from home, everything loads fine. Here are some
particulars:

- We used to host the sites locally
- Its not always the same images that are the 'stragglers'
- Out of 15 images, there might be 1-5 stragglers that take 5-6 seconds more
to load than the others
- I've tried changing references from <img src="images/xyz.jpg"> to <img
src="http://www.mysite.com/iamges/xyz.jpg"> to no avail
- I've put a manual entry in my hosts file to eliminate DNS from the mix.
- Other sites hosted by this company load fine

My instinct is that there is something buried in some code somewhere (a dll
perhaps?) that is making a hard reference to one of my servers, but since
the code is no longer "local" to my network, the server stutters a step or
two before moving along to buisness as usual. If anyone has any ideas of
where I can investigate, I would greatly appreciate it.

John D. Morris
IT Engineer

timcof
Tue Sep 30 02:32:26 CDT 2003

Network trace, filemon, and web server logs is where you want to start. Try just pulling the image from a browser; http://server/images/file.jpg

See what does for you.

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

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| I have an odd problem. Our sites are hosted at a colo facility. When we
| access the sites from our office, often times, images will load very slowly.
| If I check the same sites from home, everything loads fine. Here are some
| particulars:
|
| - We used to host the sites locally
| - Its not always the same images that are the 'stragglers'
| - Out of 15 images, there might be 1-5 stragglers that take 5-6 seconds more
| to load than the others
| - I've tried changing references from <img src="images/xyz.jpg"> to <img
| src="http://www.mysite.com/iamges/xyz.jpg"> to no avail
| - I've put a manual entry in my hosts file to eliminate DNS from the mix.
| - Other sites hosted by this company load fine
|
| My instinct is that there is something buried in some code somewhere (a dll
| perhaps?) that is making a hard reference to one of my servers, but since
| the code is no longer "local" to my network, the server stutters a step or
| two before moving along to buisness as usual. If anyone has any ideas of
| where I can investigate, I would greatly appreciate it.
|
| John D. Morris
| IT Engineer
|
|
|