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Retired_Member
Oct 18, 2011Remote access to frontview unusably slow - what can be done?
Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this question, but here goes: How can I improve or even influence the speed of accessing a remote NAS from across the Atlantic? I'm trying to set up a b...
StephenB
Dec 30, 2011Guru - Experienced User
If you enable ICMP response in the US actiontec, does the tracert show no response at the US router? Sometimes tracert is misleading, since some intermediate devices are intentionally set to ignore ICMP.
kc1 wrote: Mine in the US is set to port 5151. Just times out, as described, while it's loading the frontview page. As a test I tried pointing it to the extplorer add-on, but the same thing happens - starts to load the page, and then times out. I've tried various other port permutations, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. The tracerts show it timing out on the last 2 hops at the verizon end.
If you are getting packet loss within the verizon network, you probably need to raise the issue with them.
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