On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:24 PM, John BORIS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently I started using Google Docs in work since I was going to > multiple sites and needed a common place for stuff. Heck that is what it > is best suited for. Each of these sites sits behind a firewall and they > are on different speed connections. Some are on Fiber and other are on > Comcast business connections. Also the PCs I am using vary in age from 1 > to 5 years old and the memory varies from 512mb to 1g. 99% are Dell > Desktops all running Windows XP. > > The problem I have been having is two fold. The first and biggest issue > is lag time between typing on a document and the characters appearing on > the screen. At the last stop I actually typed an entire sentence of > about 120 characters and when I looked up nothing was in the document > and about 3 seconds later (felt like minutes) I saw the words appear. > This was not in the middle of the day when there were a ton of users > fighting for a slice of the bandwidth. At this site there are no more > than 50 users on this entire LAN and Internet (Comcast) connection. The > admin at the school was puzzled as well. > > The other issue I have been having has been the cursor not being where > it displays. What I mean is the cursor was blinking on a line in the > document and as I went to insert or append text the text appeared two > lines above it. This has happened at a few sites and nothing I did > corrected it. I thought it had something to do with resolution but > changes there had no effect. > > I did find one supposed fix and that was to close down the index after > you open a document but that tip wasn't recent and I figured that Google > might have addressed that by now. > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > My sugestion is that you try the Chrome browser and check if it's not the CPU not having enough resources for the javascripts. I don't know about the inner workings of Google Docs but I don't think it needs to communicate anything between client and server for the characters you typed to appear on the screen. It seems that, at least at that point, it's plain old local application work. -- Giovanni Tirloni
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