[Matth]

Now this gets wierder ... Paul M / Jon T - Nottingham, one ok, one not - now figure that one out.

The only oddities I can recall that apply to my setup are:
1. Http connctions from 2 to 3, Http 1_0 connection from 4 to 6 - and that tweak has been working fine for ages ... used to be higher, but that was just being brutal with no gain in performance.
2. I set Timestamping enabled - I've always found that it helps performance on poor links
3. I've wandered the RWIN setting according to bandwidth x delay calculations and tests.

There is a firewall (Outpost), but no Router. I initailly suspected the firewall, but successful passage through an outside proxy and an NTL Inktomi pretty well rules that out.

I can remember dismissing other pages at Kodak as "dead" quite some time ago, months, so it was probably the same problem then.

Also tried my other old standby, the old and weak "Offbyone" browser, which can sometimes get a basic-mode version of a page by ignoring all the clever stuff. And of course, did the local proxy-dance as a matter of course - I do that on any hard to reach page, as the proxies are completely untrustworthy - though the Inktomis used to disgrace themselves a lot more often.