Halp! For the last week or so, posted photos are not always showing up on either phone or laptop

[yonder]

even from DUers I'm used to seeing photos from. I just see that little placeholder box instead.

Example:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/103688962
Can see on both devices, as always.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12085422
Cannot see on either device, unlike before and this example holds true with other, recent DU postings too.

Any ideas? Is it a toggle somewhere that got flipped or some other simple thing? I'm using Chrome on phone and Firefox on laptop. We did get a new Century Link modem last week that might correlate with this problem. It HAS been a major network headache from day one.

[rickford66]

1. I have this problem occasionally on my laptop.

Rebooting corrects it, but you may have a different problem. I close any browser before the reboot.

[yonder]

2. Thanks, I'll try again but we rebooted both at least a dozen times in the last week.

[rickford66]

3. You might try a system restore.

Go back to a point a few days before the problem appeared.

[yonder]

4. Heh, heh, I just discovered by turning WiFi off and enabling LTE data, I am able to see

those photos on my phone. That tells me it's something to do with the way that damn new CL modem/gateway is talking with our device(s). We've had nothing but problems and inconsistent/contradictory support from Century Link.

I still don't understand why I can see some posted photos, WiFi or not, though I think I know where to poke around now.

[rickford66]

5. No S/W application can handle every combination of devices and configurations.

Amazing things work as well as they do. After almost 40 years of designing simulation S/W I learned no amount of testing will uncover all the bugs.

[Yonnie3]

6. The images are likely hosted on different sites

This could mean that there is a DNS issue with your provider or other issues with the path to a site. Have you tried a reboot on your router and modem?

[yonder]

7. Thanks. We haven't rebooted it since discovering the photo issue recently, but will do.

Related, I'm sure, is our printer doesn't talk with the modem/router either, preventing printing, though the printer does "see" it. Last week the same thing was happening with YouTube/Netflix through our TV, though that subsequently fixed itself. ???dont know why???

This Luddite is damn near the limits of his declining technical skills but I can still play Irish tunes on the fiddle - which sounds like a good thing to go do about now.