Incomplete page loads with Safari

Question

Let me preface by saying that I am accessing the internet through Earthlink Satellite and I know there is a chance that my problems relate to that, but being that it takes me about seven-and-a-half months of hold time to reach a support person, I'm hoping that one of you may have insights in the event that this is a Safari problem.
I'm using MacBookPro (OSX 10.4.9) with Safari and I am geting many errors when loading complicated sites such as USA Today, MSNBC and MLB.com. I either get question marks or no image at all and Quicktime related images come up with the QT logo with a question mark. I've found that if I clear my Cache and delete all previous cookies, I can get nearly error free loads (although Quicktime stuff still comes up with question marks). But the problem returns soon after the purging.
If anyone has ideas regarding these problems I would be very grateful for help.

Answer 1

Hi
For the Quicktime ?, go to System Preferences>Quicktime>Advanced>Mime Settings>Miscellaneous - uncheck "flash media". Restart Safari
Earthlink:
Go to your System Preferences>Network.
- Location - set up a personal location by clicking on the drop down menu and selecting "add a location". Use a name familiar to you. Once established, select "apply".
- Next, click on the "Show" drop down menu and select Network Port Configurations. Depending on whether you use a direct connection into the computer, or wirelss, only Ethernet or Airport, respectively ought to be checked. Move it to the top of the list (you can drag it). Select "apply".
- Back to the "Show" menu, select either "Ethernet" or "Airport" (whichever applies). Click on the TCP panel. There, enter 207.69.188.171 and 207.69.188.172 (separate lines) in the DNS servers box and select "apply". These are Earthlink Codes as cited in this related article.
Select Apply.
Lastly, in the Finder, go to your Utilities folder and select "Terminal". Once the screen is open enter lookupd -flushcache and press return. This clears out the DNS cache. Once done, quit Terminal.
Creating a personal location, plus adding the DNS codes ought to improve the page loads.
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