I can't be the only one with this. I've been patient but good GOD man- pages can take upwards of 30 seconds to load. That's just too long. My internet speed and pc are just fine. It's this place and it's getting REALLY old now.

Administrator.....HELP!

Dan

 

Posted in the wrong section.... but anywho, loads up quick for me? every once in awhile this topic comes up and it just happens to be on a few peoples computers.

 

it is very fast for me, on very very rare occasion, I get a 5 second stumble when posting. Try dumping your cookies and temp files maybe.

If you have mozilla firefox, you can load the ad blocker, that may help also.

 

it's your browser. i had the same problem.
get yourself google chrome browser instead of IE or Mozilla.
works ten times faster. makes you feel like you got a new
computer

 

oooh don't let the mods read that ^^^

I use Mozilla and Opera with no issues. The site loads quickly and I'm on DSL 3M/768K

Takes less than 20 seconds to load on opera 10 on my phone.

~SB

 

The site usually loads fine for me, but posting thread or replies sometimes have a lot of lag. I run FF with AB+

 

Works fine on my Droid phone

 

of all the different forums I've belonged to over the last couple of years, this one is by far the slowest I've encountered.

I think part of the problem is that site loads all of the pictures before it displays the text. Then I think there is something else going on that causes the pictures to load slowly? Maybe there are just more of them?

just my assumptions

 

I remember there were a few times in my stay here where the site would go completely down for hours or days lol ah memories...

 

Wait, chestnut... be calm! It is slow only to teach you the true virtues of patience, young grasshopper!

 

Yeah, forum pages on FF almost always load very quick for me. Posting tends to take a few seconds longer, but overall the site page load times are great.

Definitely try to clear your cookies and temporary internet files, or try an alternate browser like Firefox or Chrome.

 

forgot to mention- I experience the same slowness whether at home or work, using two different pcs. It's not my problem.

 

Work or home, this site is very slow. And I'm sitting on huge internet tubes here at work. ^_^

 

Very slow for me, always. Slow at work, slow at home, slow on my linux/firefox machines, slow on my windows/IE machines. The header loads immediately up to the banner ad and then the rest of the content just takes a looooong time.

 

This page - For me, (with nothing cached) took me 8 seconds on Opera 10.50 and 13 seconds on Firefox 3.6.3

~SB

 

I don't know what I have COX internet but this is a sssslow loading process here.

 

It was actually Tool or Raaaay that posted they use the ad block in a similar thread to this a while ago.





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That is exactly what happens to me also.

My daughter uses FF and thinks I'm nuts for using IE. I loaded FF on my laptop just today but didn't get a chance to see how this place does with it. I'll see tomorrow. I think it's a combination of banners and maybe some spam guards in place here too. We did have spam issues here a while back. But it really is too slow at the moment.

Dan

 

Try Opera, it really is a nice browser and is very fast on this Site.

~SB

 

I installed Opera 10.51 -- it's about the same speed as Firefox and IE. I'm on a near 4GHz quad-core godbox here ... page rendering is limited by server network response basically. I tried turning ABP (adblock pro) off and on ... not much difference. I reset my Linksys router with a new IP address, that actually helped a bit. Is each post loaded as a separate network connection???