Help painfully slow when going to any secure (i.e. https) site

[ks8971]

Howdy

I've recently picked up the HTC Desire from TELUS (which coincidently is an AMAZING phone) and seem to be having an issue when going to any secure site (i.e. online banking, web interface for gmail, etc.). It is painfully slow for any secure page both before and after I've provided any sign in credentials (by painful its around 60 seconds for a page to load).

Its the stock phone with no changes made to the ROM, same problem regardless of the browser and only when I'm on the TELUS HSPA network (if I'm connected with wifi there's no problem).

Have called TELUS and was told as long as I can eventually get the page to load there's not an issue (or at least not an issue they're willing to address).

Thoughts or suggestions?


THX

 

[avenuePad]

Do you use the Gmail application, or the actual Gmail page from your browser? Depending on your bank, you might be able to get application for that as well. But as for Gmail, it shouldn't take 60 seconds. You could also try another browser, like Dolphin HD, just to troubleshoot. See if changing the browser does anything, for better or worse. Dolphin HD is a great browser anyway.

 

[ks8971]

Do you use the Gmail application, or the actual Gmail page from your browser?

The gmail app works fine, if I use the web its slow as previously described

Depending on your bank, you might be able to get application for that as well.

Yes there is an app but thats not really the issue. There is clearly a problem with going to secure pages with the HTC browser when on the TELUS network. There are other sites I need to log into and its a royal pain in the a$$ to have to wait a minute everytime a new page loads.

You could also try another browser, like Dolphin HD, just to troubleshoot. See if changing the browser does anything, for better or worse. Dolphin HD is a great browser anyway.

I've played with dolphin in the past and honestly wasn't very impressed. That said I have been playing around with the Opera Mini and its moderately faster than the HTC browser.

 

[mixpix]

My Milestone (Telus) has always been like this. Takes far longer to load https websites. It also affects my TD app, which is basically just a web app.

 

[Blue1k]

Same for me on my Fascinate. CIBC pages take 45s to load. On wifi the same https pages take 2 seconds.

Something is up here.

Looking into it. Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[Chris19000]

Okie doke - have had the same issue since day one with my Fascinate. Have been frustrated that secure sites work fine on tethered pc but not in any android browsers.. Until today. Saw this: slow https sites with Milestone Android on Telus and though I couldn't do what this fellow suggested (wouldn't allow me to edit the existing telus sp connection), I made a new "telus sp" connection and put the same apn in (sp.telus.com) and left everything else blank, saved it, selected it, and blammo! Secure sites now load faster than you can say "Powder Toast Man!". Disclaimer though, I know nothing about apn settings so might want to figure out what the risks are of using this connection with clear settings before you use it.

 

[Chris19000]

2 months + and still no issues with this method. Secure sites still load as fast as ever and everything is still great running Gingerbread on my Telus Fascinate. Cheers,