I know I have dial up

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:16 pm

I know I have dial up

I know I run a 34.6 kps at the best of times

I know my server is across a big body of water in maine

I know my acer is getting tired

but

holy crap , this place is slow to load up.

is this what sex at 70 is gonna be like, all wait , no satisfaction?

is this the server or is it my life style?

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:17 pm

It is all your dial up because this site is moving exceptionally fast for me today.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:19 pm

It's faster today than it was yesterday. It was so slow yesterday that I'd load up a few tabs and go do the laundry, then come back to see if any of them went through. Getting a reply box was torture. Hitting submit was even worse.

We need to get away from Yahoo. Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:38 pm

I haven't seen any performance issues since last week.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:39 pm

sites been working great for me lately.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:58 pm

Quote:

I haven't seen any performance issues since last week.

I'm not talking sex david

but , I am glad to hear that you are an over achiever

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:16 pm

holysmokes wrote:

Quote:

I haven't seen any performance issues since last week.

I'm not talking sex david

but , I am glad to hear that you are an over achiever

Over, under, either side....it's all the same to me....unavailable!

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:21 pm

TMI david TMI

but on the plus side

nobody ever died from lackanooky

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:22 pm

Are you out in the sticks and have no access to DSL? I had to do 2 way satellite broadband for years until I moved. Even distant storms would send the modem into slow & unresponsive mode. Kind of like my ex now that I think of it.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:27 pm

My uncle lives 7 miles out of town, and gets his internet over a wifi network. They use High gain yagis and dishes to use regular wifi over the terrain, and network from ranch to ranch, passing out ip addresses all along the way in a ring network. Fairly cheap, and dependable. Each one has a UPS on it good for several hours too.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:29 pm

the province of nova scotia is supposed to have high speed access by 2009, unless the the world ends before then

I live in the barrens of the north.

stuck between rivers that flow uphill , twice a day

and the cold atlantic waters

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:55 pm

It's been slow John and still is. And I'm on high speed and have brand new hardware. So, it's not just you.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:01 pm

Mine's pootin and scootin today. Might be a problem with routers in Canada.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:24 am

Takes 12 seconds consistently to load a page.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:01 am

You guys have knots in your wires! Razz

Straighten them up and it will run faster!

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:44 am

Been working fine for me from home or work.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:56 pm

You have bigger gerbels than I do I guess cause it's brutally slow for me, home and at work. I checked for knots in the wires too and there are none. BTW, no other website I visit is slow. John and I must have economy memberships.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:57 pm

BTW, when I hit 'submit' on my last post, it took nine seconds to go.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:59 pm

I'm getting 2 second loads, it doesn't get much better than that.

Replies always take longer.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:07 pm

hmm,

mine is doing pretty good .

about the same posting time here 9 -10 seconds...

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:51 pm

pd750 wrote:

hmm,

mine is doing pretty good .

about the same posting time here 9 -10 seconds...

9-10 seconds is too long, it should be instantaneous.
But, I am happy with the speed of the site again today.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:21 pm

well , right now it's down to about 4 seconds ...

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:23 pm

BTW , that's from the time I tap the submit button 'til I have a complete load of this page .

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:48 pm

you have to take into account your location and the amount of traffic on your main line. you can be on T1 and get slowed if you have too much traffic. mid day along the east coast in the middle of the week....hmmmmm, think there might be some traffic?
i know the donkey that hauls our internet down the road is running slower than it might for more urban areas. we were supposed to go fiber years ago through the state, but the company involved went tits up and we have been sucking that back tit ever since. Confused