Comcast questions?????

[RGromlich]

Greetings:

I haven't been here in a while - that just goes to show that the boys at ComCast ___ HAD ___ worked the bugs out of the system here in Harrisburg, PA. Now, since last week ( 12AM on the 27th or 28th ) they seem to be having problems again. At that time the system went down for about an hour for "system maintenance".

Does anyone know of a recent SYSTEM change that would cause some delayed updates to web pages? By this I mean that you go to a web page, then go away and come back to it an hour later AND IT HASN'T CHANGED! If you then hit REFRESH a few time you get what APPEARS to be the current webpage - sometimes if you hit REFRESH three times in a row you will get 2 or 3 DIFFERENT version of the page. It almost looks as though they turned their caching servers back on - I though they were told to turn them off?

Anyway - any info would help.

Thanks - Roy

[zxc47]

How much cache do you have set for you browser to use ?what is your os

[zxc47]

RGromlich: try this : Open up your browser and click on tool.0n the drop down menue click on internet option.on the general tap under Temporary Internet File click on setting. (check the box .Every visit to the page,) then set your disk space to use to 80 mb

[RGromlich]

Maybe I didn't make this clear - this problem only appeared AFTER whatever maintenance it was that Comcast did. Before that I had not seen this kind of multiple paages from the past thing AT ALL.

It isn't disasterous - just hit REFRESH a few times to make sure the page you are looking at is up to date.

As for the specs: Win98SE IE5.5 P-II 300MHz SurfBoard modem 162 Megabyte RAM --- and the IE cache is set for 100 MByte -- its been working that way for 1 year or so.

Roy

[qball15j]

Comcast may be storing cache on their routers like other ISP's do.