I don't recall exactly when it started, but for several weeks I've been having issues loading webpages. The majority of the time they work, but it was happening often enough to get really, really annoying. When it happened, the pages would either: - Be mostly normal but missing certain elements.- Only load as a 'sleleton' like so:- Or not load at all:It seemed to happen at random on any site. It even happened on Geekzone today. I tried to load it and I got the "Chrome could not find" error. Then I clicked refresh twice and got the skeleton of the site, and on the third refresh it finally loaded the full site. Some sites take may retries to open, and some won't open no matter how many times I tried.I took all the obvious steps to troubleshoot, including the disabling of Adblock/extensions, using different browsers and different PCs with different NICs, disabling AV etc. etc. I even tried a completely different modem and router combo. It was not until I finally bypassed my 24 port unmanaged switch that the issue seemed to disappear.Now, I've only had the switch removed for a day and I'll need to give it longer before I'm entirely convinced, but usually I would have encountered the bug by now - all pages have been loading perfectly.What are the chances of a switch causing such issues with web browsing? All the time I was streaming podcasts from the web, and DVDs to various PCs and devices from my NAS without a hitch. Even when I hit a page that wouldn't open, web streams on the same PC using the same browser were never interrupted. And bear in mind it wasn't just the one PC on one particular switch port that had the issue (as I said, I had it on other machines) . Been using the same switch (TL-SG1024) since 2011.
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