I just get a blank page on that link.
Addthis seems to be some sort of tracking system.

In reply to a post by TrishaH:

I know nothing about those validation errors or .js files.
Does that comment you show mean that someone has 'tinkered' with those sites?

Not necessarily. It's more likely the person who wrote the css code doesn't like IE6.

A bit juvenile - still, if that were a cause, the images would load on other browsers I suppose.

Please do try it in firefox, even if you don't intend to use firefox it at least narrows down the problem to something related to Internet Explorer (and software that tinkers with it).

Do you have anything installed on the system which may interfere with traffic? firewalls, adware blockers etc..

In reply to a post by TrishaH:

A bit juvenile - still, if that were a cause, the images would load on other browsers I suppose.

It's no help, but the page loads fine in Safari on my iMac...

You haven't mentioned the name of your ISP or the model of router you use. I suspect the MTU of your pc NIC is the default 1500 and the MTU of your router may be less - 1492 perhaps. If you have a firewall on your router turned on it may be blocking ICMP packets or fragmented packets.
You could log into your router and turn off its firewall - you are protected by its NAT function and check the routers MTU - increasing it to 1500 if it is less.

Alternatively you could try temporarily reducing the MTU on your PC NIC.

Changing my MTU

camieabz tried it every which way and got the same as I do with Chrome and IE.

I have Windows firewall disabled, and no adware blockers, just KIS2012 running.

It's not all images that give the problem on those sites, and until a few months ago Natoora worked perfectly, and the gallery was fne two weeks ago.
I haven't updated anything IE9 since Oct 1st and that was KB2744842.
(Plus, there's an IE9 update ready to install when I close the computer down tonight)
My last Java update was 6.10.35 on Sep 17th, so both long before the gallery site showed any problems.
Can't pinpoint anything that happened around the time the first site started showing this problem because I was too busy with work to think about it too much, so have no record of when.

I'm with Zen and using a Billion 7800n (wired).
I have noticed in the Billion log that when it has lost connection in the past, it does attempt twice to change the MTU to 1500.

From what I can tell, the router firewall is disabled. I think the router MTU is 1492, but has been for over a year now.

In reply to a post by TrishaH:

It's not all images that give the problem on those sites, and until a few months ago Natoora worked perfectly, and the gallery was fne two weeks ago.

Coming at it from a different direction... we don't know whether the image download is being interrupted or if it's coming down OK but not being fully rendered.

I'm somewhat hampered by not seeing the problem and not being able to run IE of any flavour (tho' not sure if that's a disadvantage ), but on Safari I can right-click an image and open it in a new tab/window. Can you do anything similar in IE, and if so does it render correctly?

Thanks Bill - Not sure I'd know where to look to see if the image is interrupted or otherwise - perhaps camieabz knows?

In IE I do get the option to open in new tab or new window, but neither produces a full image.
On the gallery website, small images open the larger one in a new window, and there's no option offered for either new tab or new window.
Same if I try it in Chrome.
With the Natoora site, most images produce a blank space in Chrome, but sometimes there's a quick flash of the same small part of the image then it goes to the blank space, so looks like it's more or less the same as in IE. Similar happens on the gallery site.

I do see in Chrome that theres an 'Inspect Element' when right clicking on an image. Brings up a fair bit of info, but not sure if any of it would be helpful, or if it's the same type of thing as viewing source code in IE.