loading external images and txt files

[ST]

Hi everyone!

Here I have another question/problem that bothers me a lot:

Introduction:
I have a flash movie “A” that loads an external flash movie “B”.
In “B” I have a script that loads an image and a txt file from the same server.

Problem:
When “B” is loaded it takes some time to see that text or the image. And even in occasions they don’t load at all.

Code:
Text: this.loadVariables("toph.txt?Ran="+random(999), "top_texto");
Image: loadMovie("musica/d1.jpg", this.h1);

Solution?
Does some one know how to make the flash movie loads those external objects?


Thanks in advanced!

[Webforumz Staff]

How long is 'some time'? If you test this locally, is it instantaneous?

[ST]

The time depends...from 3-5 sec or it doesn't appear at all.
Locally it works fine, without any lag.

[Webforumz Staff]

Technically, if your hosting is reliable and you've coded this correctly then it should always display. Some aspect of your code must be slightly broken.

Shouldn't this.h1 be in quotes?

[ST]

Hosting is in Huston, they supposed to be good... I don’t dare to say the hosting company (spam)

"this.h1" mmm….do you think it would make any difference on the speed?

[Webforumz Staff]

I'm just telling you what I can based on the information you've given me. I see no reason for it to be that slow for you. You need to try from another computer or get a friend to try.

[ST]

Ah, ok…


mmm…how can I help you help me?

About testing…
I’m now in Spain. Before I was in Belgium, there I didn’t notice the lag (I had 4 mb cable connection). Here (in Spain) I have a 1mb dsl connection, and its here where I noticed the lag. Friends in Belgium say its ok, but some friends in Spain Noticed the same latency (as well as my “client”).

One of the problems is that I don’t know how to explain it to my client so he doesn’t think I ‘m just giving him a cheap excuse and that I do not know nothing about the stuff.

Any suggestion?

[Webforumz Staff]

Where it the hosting based?

You could also try doing a trace route to the website and seeing where the signal latency occurs.

[ST]

“Where it the hosting based?”
You mean where I put the site? In www.speedpacket.com
It was actually for an other site, but its close, so we use the web space for this project for the same guy.




”You could also try doing a trace route to the website and seeing where the signal latency occurs.”
Do you mean the ping? Its 93ms from this computer

[Webforumz Staff]

By 'where is the hosting based' I mean geographical location, where in the world?

And as for trace route, open up a cmd window as if you were going to ping, but instead do:
tracert www.google.com
or whatever address you want to trace.

It will show you all the computers that your packets go through in order to reach the address. It also shows the time to get to each address, so if the time suddently increases for one 'hop' between servers, you know that there could be a problem there.