For those of you for whom the forum is slow... (Page 1/2)
Cliff Pennock DEC 10, 07:21 PM
I've been getting quite a bit of emails from people lately, that the forum loads slow for them.

There's nothing wrong with the server or the forum, and it's always pretty fast from here. Now I suspect one of two problems:

- Either a router between the States and the Netherlands has been acting up lately, or
- The DNS of these people's ISP is very, very slow.

In both cases, there isn't much I can do since the problem lies somewhere else. But I can try to find out what exactly it is that goes wrong.

If the forum has been slow consistently for you lately, and you want to try to find out what is causing it, please contact your ISP's helpdesk (if they have any) and tell them your problem with this site. If they find anything, please email me. If you don't want to or for some reason can't contact your helpdesk, please send me an email so I can try to establish if this slowness is bound to a certain region. I might respond to some of you with a few extra questions, or maybe even invite you to help with a small test.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out what is causing this. Again, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the server and over here, pages load almost instantly. If the forum is slow on occasion for you, there's no need to email me - that's normal internet behavior.

Thanks,
Jncomutt DEC 10, 11:08 PM
Thanks for clearing that up!! I experienced a bit of slowness lately in midday. I come back at night and things are cleared up. Then again, I had a job before and didn't check then.. Probably just some congestion around here.
theogre DEC 10, 11:16 PM
Bloated signatures and other images don't help either.
KlaX DEC 11, 02:58 PM
Its none of those reasons, its Ogre with his 8000 posts that are slowing us all down. :P
litespd DEC 11, 08:01 PM
 
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Originally posted by Jncomutt:

Thanks for clearing that up!! I experienced a bit of slowness lately in midday. I come back at night and things are cleared up.

I've noticed this, too, Cliff. Lately, it seems that during the day, it's slow, then when I log on at night, it's much quicker. Like Jncomutt said, perhaps it's daytime congestion on the Internet.
maryjane DEC 12, 09:24 PM
I would find it hard to believe that anything would be wrong on Cliff's end, since I'm running one of the slowest computers on pff-(266 with a 14.4 modem & 64Mb ram). It always seems fine to me. I read almost every post every day & probably post in a couple dozen/week, more on the weekend. ((fully agree with the ogre about the sigs)
Raydar DEC 13, 09:48 AM
It was pretty consistantly slow a couple of weeks ago, to me. Especially during the day. I occasionally still get a slow page, but nothing like it was. I usually just attributed it to our internal network. Was usually better in the evenings, at home.
Have a hard time judging now, anyway, since I'm using a secure remote client to access my home PC from work. It's *always* a bit slow due to the uploads speeds over my DSL, but it *is* safe from prying eyes.

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Raydar

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If "more" is enough, then "too much" is just right.

Reality DEC 13, 10:24 AM
Just to let you know the forum has been extremely slow for me the last week. IE: it took a full minute for this reply page to load. I thought it was my cable modem at first until I realized that any other website I visited loaded just fine.
ls3mach DEC 13, 12:32 PM
I have this problem to. I also use cable modem. It is slow at school too. The use T1 here though.
Gridlock DEC 13, 01:36 PM
 
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Originally posted by maryjane:

I would find it hard to believe that anything would be wrong on Cliff's end, since I'm running one of the slowest computers on pff-(266 with a 14.4 modem & 64Mb ram). It always seems fine to me. I read almost every post every day & probably post in a couple dozen/week, more on the weekend. ((fully agree with the ogre about the sigs)


Had you beat until 2 months ago when I bought the new one-486 DX4100 28.8 modem and 16 mb of ram!

Trev