Web server loads slow and stops outside lan

[darny]

My web site loads fine and fast in my lan but loads slow
and stops after a few seconds outside my lan. I am using Apachs 2 on windows 2000. What am I missing? I'm new at this and had no problems setting up.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[ChadSEO]

When you are accessing your site outside of your LAN, you mean from a different internet connection? If so, there are several factors that could slow down the site. If there is a lot of traffic on your server's connection or on the connection you're testing from, then it could be slow. You say it starts loading part of the way, then stops? How much of it loads? Do you get an error message?

[darny]

I am checking the site at my neighbors house outside my lan.
This is a simple site with a few images on it.(example.com/FLE.html) I have just put it on the server, so no one knows about it yet. It loads slow and stops after a few seconds on any wan I check it on. I had it set up on Fedora 3 with the same results. I changed to windows to see if the OS was the problem. I am getting no error messages. It just stops loading.
Thanks for your reply and am looking forward to getting this fixed.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 2:42 pm (utc) on Aug. 4, 2005]
[edit reason] Removed specifics per TOS. [/edit]

[ChadSEO]

darny,

Couple things here. First off, I know you're new to WebmasterWorld (Welcome, by the way :) ), so just to let you know, it is against the TOS to post a URL, ip address, or any other personally identifiable information. In the future, it's best to send a sticky mail directly to someone with that information.

As far as your site, I checked on a few things. Ping times are consistantly about 80ms, so it doesn't sound like a network issue. The HTML pages seem to load okay, if a little slow, but the images are taking a long time. One way to reduce overall bandwidth usage and load times would be to create a smaller version of the image on the main page. The current image is 800kb, but if you reduce it down to the size you are using, it is only 30kb, a savings of over 96%.

I haven't had a problem like this before, but I would probably check CPU/memory usage on the server, do a bandwidth test (dslreports.com is a good site for those). Not sure what else to check though, perhaps someone else has some suggestions.

[darny]

Thanks for the info.
First I'll change the image sizes.
When my page stops loading I'll click the reload and it then keeps timing out. I have to wait a couple of minutes before it reconnects. If I don't reload it will sit there and "transferring data from example.com." forever.
Thanks for your input!

[darny]

Well... made all the image files much smaller but still getting time outs. The server seems to only work for a few seconds before it totally stops. When you hit reload it's still timing out. If you wait a couple of minutes it reconnects. I'm stumped here. My box is old (P3-866 with 512 megs ram)but should be good enough.

[ChadSEO]

Darny,

I did some checking on your site just now, and everything seems to be loading fine except for the full-sized images. I don't know what would be causing this, but perhaps that will send up a flag for someone else here.

[darny]

Updated my firmware on my router and everythings working great.