Please Help. I can't do my banking anymore!!!

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Hello.

Recently, I have discovered I can’t get onto my banking website. It is amazingly slowwww to even get to the login screen, and even if I can login, I can’t do anything as it boots me off while I am waiting due to inactivity. At first I thought it was their website, but it works fine from work (on a windows machine). Then I thought it was a Firefox thing, but I can’t get on via Opera or Konquerer. I would appreciate it, if someone could check out the link and let me know if it works for them.

https://www.txn.banking.pcfinancial.ca/a/authentication/preSignOn.ams

I am using
OpenSuse 10.3
Firefox 3.0.3
KDE 3.5.7 release 72.9

I have tried identifying my browser as IE, but It didn’t work.
I have also tried reseting my Firefox profile to no avail.

Thank for any help

Craig

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What is the actual home page url?

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eclindholm wrote:

> <snip>
> I would appreciate it, if someone could check out the link and let me
> know if it works for them.
>
> https://www.txn.banking.pcfinancial.ca/a/authentication/preSignOn.ams

I called it up in OSS 11.0, Firefox 3.0.3, KDE 3.5.9. It was rather slow to
respond, but it did work. I also call it up in WinXP Pro with Firefox. It
was also just as slow.

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It looks like the bank has changed websites and there have been reports of problems with the bank itself if you are using ‘Presidents Choice’.

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President’s Choice Financial | home

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How slow was it? For me it’s in the minutes to load

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I should note that i can’t use it on IE under Windows via Virtual box either

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eclindholm wrote:

> Larry Bristol;1888655 Wrote:
>> I called it up in OSS 11.0, Firefox 3.0.3, KDE 3.5.9. It was rather
>> slow to respond, but it did work. I also call it up in WinXP Pro
>> with Firefox. It was also just as slow.
>
> How slow was it? For me it’s in the minutes to load

VERY slow… It took 3-4 minutes for the page to complete, on both linux
and WinXP.

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I want to confirm the original poster’s problem. I’m able to access the PC Financial site ‘normally’ using XP/Vista and Firefox 3.0. Under Ubuntu Linux 8.10, using Firefox 3.0, it takes over a minute to load; subsequent pages after login also take a minute or more. I found this page googling - I would love to know why this is happening.

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Found a fix that works on Ubuntu by ‘Peter VK’, may work for you as well:
[ubuntu] [SOLVED] Banking Site is very slow - Page 3 - Ubuntu Forums](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6084166)

In short:

Code:
sudo -s
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

Add this to bottom of /etc/sysctl.conf

Code:

fix stupid pcfinancial site

net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0

It now loads for me in less than a second.

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I was blaming my ISP all the time, glad to see SuSE users helping each other.

The solution works for me