Internet help again lol?

Question

ok when i go to my windows task manager and i go to networking i see that when i go to a website like looking up something on yahoo like news
it will go right to it but when i go to a different website like halo.com it
just takes like 5 mins on sites that are not on yahoo.when i go to a site thats not on yahoo or like myspace or halo in the network connection manager the network utiliza. thing down there it
don't go up or down its just 0%so help me please!!!!!!!

Answer 1

You will not utilize much of network for loading sites. It shows much only if you download huge stuffs life movies and large softwares.
Try switch to firefox and see whether you are getting same problem or not.
www.getfirefox.com

Answer 2

The network utilization graph in task manager is showing you how much traffic is actually being sent over the network, relative to the maximum capability of the interface.

So - question seems to be why don't you see activity on that graph when you go to yahoo vs other web sites?

Your PC caches (stores on the HDD) bits and pieces of web sites that you visit. The idea behind this is to prevent having to redownload the same data over and over again. If you look at web pages at yahoo you will see a lot of the same information (graphics, banners, etc..) on every page. Windows doesn't download that stuff, it pulls it out of the cache.

So the first time you go to a page like halo.com you need to download their graphics etc.., which is why your networking utilization goes up. Depending your particular machine/network it will take a while to download everything the browser is requesting.

Why does it take so long, that is a function of the amount of and nature of the material you need to get. I went to halo.com and I had to download what I believe is a flash movie, which took 30 seconds or so on my system. (I use Firefox, I have an HP 6220 laptop w/2Hhz processor, wireless (802.11B) with comcast cable).

There is another cache to be aware of too. Your internet service provider may have a web cache on their network too. So for a very common site like yahoo or google or cnn or msn etc.. they could cache all the commonly hit pages local to them. The idea here is similar to the cache on your HDD, only is applies to all the users for your service provider. Instead of going to the yahoo.com server for the information, they just send the info from their local cache. That means that their actual connection to the Internet is only being used to get non-cached data. For a site that isn't in their cache, your actually getting the information the site itself, which would in theory take longer depending on bandwidth availability, how busy the server your requesting it from is ya di ya di ya.....

Bottom line there are lots of things that influence the speed with which a web site loads.

FWIW - I went to halo.com a second time, this time my pc didn't have to download anything - it sucked it all out flash and it came up right away. Very small blip of network activity the second time, the first time the utilization went up to something like 25% for 30 seconds.