Cook County Locks Database

[jerrycape]

Go to US map, select Illinois, select Cook County, wait...database locks. Any thoughts?

 

[loumaag]

Something wrong at your end, works fine for me. What are you seeing?

 

[jerrycape]

Standard Windows network error message "site not responding". Other Illinois counties are OK. (i.e. McHenry County) where I live is fine.

 

[garys]

Works fine for me too. Exactly how would Cook County lock a database that is controlled by someone else? The problem is on your end.

 

[jerrycape]

Poor wording on my part...better wording..."the Cook County entry in the Radio Reference database appears to lock upon examination". Must then use Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to examine the applications that are running. Task Manager says site not responding. Then kill Internet Explorer to recover. Error is repeatable.

 

[JoeyC]

Yep, works fine here.

 

[loumaag]

Poor wording on my part...better wording..."the Cook County entry in the Radio Reference database appears to lock upon examination". Must then use Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to examine the applications that are running. Task Manager says site not responding. Then kill Internet Explorer to recover. Error is repeatable.

Cook county, being Cook county, is a very large page. As a test, I just timed it and from clicking on Cook Co. (on the IL map) it took 25+ seconds to load, this on a high speed connection. I note you say you are using IE (as I do); I looked through the whole page and I see nothing on the page that may be invoking any software or extension that may be causing this.

 

[MFD4305]

Not Here!

Lou,
The Cook County page took six seconds to load for me. Comcast cable internet with an 811g wireless router to a laptop running Windows XP and FireFox. Suggest you (all) try FireFox.

 

[scannerfreak]

4 Seconds on this end with Comcast and FF

Working fine here as well..

 

[loumaag]

Give me a break

Guys, I set up the worst possible senerio, cleared history, cleared cache, worst browser. After all, I was trying to provide the situation similar to what the OP (since he has not yet loaded the page) would be experiencing.