Subj : Doc's Place
To   : Tom Walker
From : George Vandervort
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 03:19 pm

Hello Tom!

Wednesday October 05 2005 09:33, TOM WALKER wrote to JEAN PARROT:

 JP> TW>> I find doc's Place down quite a bit more then Normal. Is anyone
 JP> TW>> else having a prolbemm.
 TW>
 JP>>        Tom, I am stricly on Doc's Place and all is fine here,
 JP>> about 3000 miles away on telnet. Never missed a beep ! Can I say
 JP>> that I am using XP Pro.   Hooots !
 TW>
 TW>
 TW>  I thoin kit is my "Black Cloud comming into play. Several times a
 TW>  month lately when I try to log on i get the "Page NOT Found".
 TW> -+-
 TW>  þ SLMR 2.1a þ This note from El Cajon California USA
 TW>  + Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)


"Page Not Found" or Error 404

is usually an indication that:

1.) the Site that you tried to connect to
    was either Busy and had too many other
    connections at the momment that you
    tried to connect..

    usually, if you wait about 5 minutes
    and call back, you would probably get
    get a connection..


2.) However, there are dozens of Factors
    that could contribute to your
    "Failure to Comunicate"  :-))

    Here just a few of the factors:

    a.) Time of Day
    b.) 20 or more servers that your
        Connection request goes thru
        before it reaches the Destination
        that you attempting to connect to.
        anyone of those inRoute servers
        could be over-loaded with Traffic
        at the moment that your signal
        arrived and cause a "Time-out"
        that caused your Browser to give
        you a "Page Not Found" error.

     c.) Dialup Connections on either end
         can give you fits,

     d.) Broadband to Broadband Connection
         tend to work better and faster
         with fewer problems, but even
         Broadband, can have time of day
         traffic overloads on occation..

My suggestion, when you have these problems
is to wait 5-10 minutes and try your connection
again, keep a record of the time of day,
Bad times are ussually, early Morning before
everybody goes to work or school, and early
evenings, after everybody is home from work..

Have a nice day,

Regards,
GeorgeV












Regards,
George Vandervort
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