Strange.

Been using my 3g Three Dongle a couple of days now. Most applications I run have no problem but it seems that browsing to a site for the first time is a problem and I get "Connection was reset while page was loading" on Firefox. Never had any problem on Broadband and it seems if I set up a ping to the site I was trying to get to page loads instantly. Any ideas? Routing problems? Running ZTE MF112 dongle on Windows XP. Have tried emptying DNS cache and resetting Winsock but out of ideas now.

If you copy your "Connection was reset while page was loading" into Google it will take you to the Mozillazine site which specifically seems to answer your question, at the very least it should put you on the right track.

Thanks but it's not just FireFox. Interesting to note if I ping the bbc constantly from a command window the problem goes away.

I now suspect either a problem with my AV, Nod32 or a Level 3 routing problem because when I run WinMTR trace to the bbc browsing is instant, unless someone has another idea.

Think I may have cracked it. I previously tuned my TCP stack on XP to suit my Zen broadband 8 meg. Have now reset the stack to the Windows default and browsing problems seem to have gone away for the moment.

Spoke too soon after 15 mins browsing the connection was reset re-appeared, grrrrr.

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 172.30.132.97 - 14 | 15 | 13 | 63 | 96 | 141 | 94 |
| te-4-2.car1.Manchester1.Level3.net - 7 | 15 | 14 | 63 | 113 | 265 | 78 |
| No response from host - 100 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR - 0.8. Copyleft @2000-2002 Vasile Laurentiu Stanimir ( [email protected] )

Traceroute when browser fails then

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 172.30.132.106 - 0 | 20 | 20 | 63 | 127 | 375 | 94 |
| te-4-2.car1.Manchester1.Level3.net - 10 | 20 | 18 | 78 | 144 | 329 | 78 |
| ae-4-4.ebr1.London1.Level3.net - 15 | 20 | 17 | 78 | 166 | 750 | 78 |
| ae-1-51.edge3.London1.Level3.net - 5 | 20 | 19 | 78 | 206 | 891 | 78 |
| 195.50.124.18 - 15 | 20 | 17 | 78 | 212 | 859 | 156 |
| 166.49.168.126 - 6 | 19 | 18 | 78 | 203 | 812 | 141 |
| 194.72.20.153 - 16 | 19 | 16 | 78 | 204 | 781 | 94 |
| 62.6.204.61 - 11 | 19 | 17 | 94 | 220 | 859 | 141 |
| 62.6.196.98 - 0 | 19 | 19 | 78 | 201 | 687 | 125 |
| 62.172.57.218 - 0 | 19 | 19 | 94 | 200 | 672 | 110 |
| No response from host - 100 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 203 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR - 0.8. Copyleft @2000-2002 Vasile Laurentiu Stanimir ( [email protected] )

Trace when browser works - routing problem at level 3?

I found a workaround for anyone looking at this see link below.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/general/t/4034263-r...