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[pulse1]

I would be grateful if someone could explain to me why the time and date in the last post column is often very different from the actual last post in the thread. For example, at 15:30 UTC today, the "C152 Crash at Exeter" thread was showing a last post at 12:48 on April 20. The actual last post (not edited) was at 21:14 on the previous day.

This only seems to be happening recently and I find it a bit frustrating when I am following a particular thread. The Chinook thread seems to be particularly bad but perhaps that is because it is the only one I follow closely.

If it something I'm doing wrong I would be grateful for some advice.

[PPRuNe Dispatcher]

Check the setting on your browser. You are only seeing the cached pages and not the updated page on the server. Make sure you set your cache preferences to check for an update every time a page is accessed.

For IE, click on Tools/Internet Options. Then click the Settings button. Make sure that "Check for new versions of stored pages" is set to "Every visit to the page".

It could also be a cacheing problem with your ISP. What some ISPs do nowadays is to cache the pages their uses download, so that if another request for the same page comes in within a few seconds or minutes, they don't themselves then have to pass the request onto the source machine, but can just send back the page themselves. This really cuts down on the bandwidth an ISP has to pay for, and that is usually by far their biggest cost.

I'm now going to move this thread to Computers/Internet issues...

---PPRuNe Dispatcher

[This message has been edited by PPRuNe Dispatcher (edited 20 April 2001).]

[pulse1]

PPRuNE Dispatcher,

Many thanks. It certainly seems better now. Mrs pulse1 has the book "Internet for Dummies". Perhaps I should read it.

[ExSimGuy]

Yes, Pulse, the clue was in your bit about "the page I monitor frequently" - you are taking a cache from somewhere - maybe your machine or maybe further down the line.

Hopefully it's okay now you changed the settings as above, but if not someone else is cacheing old pages for you :mad:

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[FJJP]

If the selected page comes up rapidly, your computer has loaded the page you last looked at, which is stored in the 'Temporary Internet Files' folder in windows.

If you get the rapid load, hit the 'Refresh' Button and the latest version of the page will be downloaded.

Whether you alter the settings to get the machine to check for the latest version or us the refresh button (as I do) is up to you - the reason I use Refresh is that it can be irritating to download a page each time if you are doing a lot of surfing and moving between a number of sites, say for comparison purposes (like checking specifications of equipment, prices, etc).

It took me a while to figue this one out, too.