Why do only Livejournal pages load so slowly on my computer?

February 12, 2008 10:40 AM

Livejournal pages (and only Livejournal pages) are loading with excruciating slowness on my desktop computer (and only on my desktop computer). What gives??

For the past week or so, any time I try to open anything on livejournal.com, it takes somewhere between 30 and 60 seconds to load, as compared to the 1 - 10 seconds to load pages from pretty much any other website. This occurs only on my desktop computer (older Windows box running XP SP2); it doesn't happen with my laptop, which has the same OS and is using the same wireless connection.

It's not browser-specific; I get the same problem in Firefox (2.0.0.12), IE7 and Opera 9.25. Despite which, I tried it in Firefox in safe mode with all extensions disabled and with cache/cookies cleared: no difference. It also doesn't make a difference whether I'm logged in or out of Livejournal. I've run a deep system scan on BitDefender, as well as AdAware and SpyBot, and nothing seems amiss there.

Any ideas?

posted by Kat Allison to computers & internet (2 comments total)

What Firewall do you have installed? I had somewhat similar problems at one point in time which were caused by Comodo. Uninstalling it and running the WinSock XP Fix seemed to cure my problem.
posted by chorltonmeateater at 10:57 AM on February 12, 2008

Your computer might have a stale DNS entry for livejournal.com, which is pointing to an old or overloaded LJ server. This should be an easy fix: Start -> Run, enter: ipconfig /flush
posted by spiderskull at 7:33 PM on February 12, 2008