Pictures displaying as a red "x"

Hopefully someone can help. When I load a webpage, certain pictures won't load up and jsut display a red "x". It only happens on certain pictures. It just started happeing to both my desktop and my laptop, which is wireless. I am guessing since it is happening on both computers, it is a verizon issue..

If someone can hlep, I would appreciate it. And just before anyone asks, it's normal pictures, not any x-rated stuff. It seems to happen the most on facebook.

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ct124

After about two weeks of phone calls and being lied to by Verizon several differnet times (eg, a tech came to my house and did nothing, but in his report he said hew swapped out my router), they finally realized it was a problem on their end and fixed it.

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TimSykes

If its on a site like face book, It sounds like its just as simple as the images that should be on the site no longer exist. Like someone deleted them from there photobucket account. But if its happening on MSN that is a different story. Can you give me more details, on where its happening , and what browser you are using.

ct124

it is happening on other webistes, specifically msn. Facebook seems to be the worst. I thought the same thing that people deleted the photos, but i checked on a friends computer and the pictures appeared. on the sites, some pictures load up, some don't. i used internet explorer but also tried firefox and got the same results. like is said before, it is happening in both my laptop and desktop, which is why i thought it was a verizion/router issue

TimSykes

Did you mess with the windows, or router firewall? Some browsers let you disable images so pages load faster. I am not at my router right now I not sure if there is a setting in there to block images. If I remember tonight I will check when I get home.

ct124

i didnt do anything to the firewalls. the routher firewall is set on typical. i called verizon and they said to update my flash player, which i did and it didnt help

philhu

I am seeing this too, intermittently, on both computers connected to FiOS and they did not have the problem on Comcast.

On msn, google, yahoo, most everything.

I just was installed Tuesday, router has latest firmware.

I also see problems with pages using aspx code, buttons shaped wrong or jagged, getting Webform errors 12152, etc etc.

I've downloaded MEGS without problems, very fast, etc

I have 20/5 service and just don't know HOW to even describe aspx page problems to Verizon engineers.

I read somewhere about the DNS they provide being super slow, could that be an issue, as the timeouts for page object loads are alot tighter than

the initial domain lookups. Meaning, if your page does an 'img src' with a FQDN (Fully qualified domain name), the timeout for the image is alot smaller than the

original lookup of the domain name. Or am I on a red herring?

prisaz

If you are running Microsoft Family Safety it may be your problem. I loaded the new beta and the problem went away.

ct124

I dont have that installed on either computer

mattheww50

I suspect you are on the right track, it probably is a timing issue.

The other experiment is to right click on the red x, and ask it to display the image. If it displays when you do that, it suggests it is a timing issue, and probably unrelated to the router or computer.

ct124

i have also noticed that certain websites. youtube being one of them, either dont load up or take a long time loading up. other websites, such as google and msn, load up quickly.......please help.

prisaz

Are you running a good antivirus program? Just a thought.

cjacobs001

This was a big thing earlier in the year. I had a lot of real estate agents who couldn't see or show their houses on the internet. The fix was first making sure the version of IE is up to date, then going into internet options under tools in internet explorer, deleting all cookies and resetting all IE defaults, etc. after reboot of IE all worked fine.

ct124

Thanks for everyone's suggestions, unfortunalty none of them worked. After several hours of phone calls to Verizon and a visit from a Verizon Tech, they determined

it was a problem with their server. Now I have to wait for them to fix it........and we all know the pace that Verizon works!

cjacobs001

It's probably not their servers. If it was, a whole lot more people would be complaining. Don't hold your breath waiting for them. Perhaps their Expert Care service can assist you.

ct124