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[dragonlady7]

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That sucks. Hopefully you can figure out a workaround. Is it possible to fill out the form(s) and then check to see if the internet connection is working well by loading another page before submitting the form?

ah, no, what usually happens is that the page gets hung up and doesn’t load all the way and that’s my first clue that the network connection reset at some point. so, sort of unavoidable. 

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[wyomingnot]

I have this problem too. Comes in waves. I'll go ages with no issues, then wham.

When I'm doing a more complicated post, I make sure to copy/paste to notepad. Yeah, I'll still have to dink with putting pics in again, but at least all the text is saved (and is usually a good hint as to what pic goes where).

It's tedious, but. *shrug* Alternatively (or combined with), I just save every time I get a single pic uploaded. Save as draft. Then edit the draft. Over and over again. Tedious, but ultimately less frustrating than doing all the work and losing it.

[dragonlady7]

This was just the AO3 create works page, so there's a lot of like, pull-downs and checkboxes and things I had just gotten all filled in, and it was just a huge pain in the ass to do it not once, not twice, but three entire times, and you wouldn't know until after you'd hit the button that oh, the connection has reset and it's not going to work this time either.

[wyomingnot]

OOOOH. Yeah, no getting around that. And I've been there. And of course, I am completely incapable of just saying "okay, this isn't working now, I'll deal with it tomorrow." So I will just keep banging my head against the wall, over and over again.

Since you're in a home, is there any way to get a wired connection? (which doesn't actually help me because for me it's a vpn issue. and those still happen on wired connections. But if your problem is with the wifi...)