Very fast timeout problem.

[CyberCafe]

I'm using FP 2002 on Windows XP Pro, dial-up connection (with
accelerator) to a paid host site (HostSave). Extensions on the host
site okay.

When I try to publish to the host site, I get some of the fastest
timeouts there could possibly be. Since I've heard large web sites
(like mine) can be hard to publish, I did the following things to try to
force FP to publish: deleted a lot of graphics files, separated some of
the main site into subwebs, marked a bunch of files to not publish, set
it to only publish changed files, cleaned out the logs/stats. None of
that stuff helped getting my pages published. Also took down the
firewalls. Tried a live update but am getting timed out after a few
seconds although I was able to capture most of the navigation structure
but none of the subfolders (in the folder pane) or subwebs. I noticed
if I clicked on a box in the navigation structure, I could grab the
page, but then it wouldn't save back to the host site (timed out in just
a few seconds).

Trying to publish has been a chronic problem. Once in a blue moon, I
get lucky though. The host has good up time, and I've never had
problems or slowness viewing or refreshing any of my pages from a browser.

Okay, folks, is there a way to work around this problem or will
upgrading to FP 2003 solve this problem? My web site is big, like I
said, but no where near the amount the host gives customers. If FP
can't handle the task, can someone suggest a program that can. I don't
use the fancy stuff in FP or scripts or anything like that; just simple
stuff.

Barb

 

[Steve Easton]

Define "accelerator."
Have you tried publishing without the "accelerator??

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[CyberCafe]

Define "accelerator."
Have you tried publishing without the "accelerator??

The accelerator is a service/software combo we pay for every month from
our ISP, which is our telephone company. It's an addition to our
regular internet connection charges. Anyway, the accelerator can
compress incoming and outgoing data from my computer to and from the ISP
so it travels faster. There is no cable, DSL, or anything like that
where I live, just regular old slow dial-up, so the accelerator is the
ISPs way of compensating for the lack of fast data transfer.

You brought up a good point, something I didn't think about. Maybe the
accelerator is over-compressing my upload attempts to the web host.
I'll try turning the accelerator off and see what happens. Thanks for
bringing that to my attention.

Barb