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How slow......?!?

Postby Ghost on Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:44 pm

Is anyone else finding it extremely slow?!?!? :x
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Postby Ghost on Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:09 pm

alright reject that......sometimes it runs dead slow!
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Postby JamieFRST on Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:42 am

Seems ok posting, but viewing posts is slow for me too.
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Postby Superal on Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:16 pm

speeds vary
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Postby RS GEZ on Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:10 pm

same here admin why?????????
listening for costly strange noises????
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Postby AdrianFRST on Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:27 pm

I hear of problems but I've not experienced any since I used to access the site from work through an NTL connection.

I'm only on in the eve and weekends though.

Can anyone who finds it slow list the following:

- ISP & connection speed
- Browser
- Time of day it's slow
- What is slow to load: clicking a link and waiting for a response, the page loading (going from blank to loaded) etc.

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Postby JamieFRST on Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:20 pm

ISP is Eclipse 8Mb Home 6Mb work
IE 7 & Firefox 2.0.0.3


Seems to be slow with IE and not firefox after doing a few tests, its slow all through the day and night with IE. Normally a slow response time when viewing and posting threads from clicking the link to something happening, actual page load time are fast images etc.
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Postby Ghost on Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:30 pm

Virginmedia/NTL/Telewest :lol:

4MB

Firefox

Find it has mostly happened around 9-11pm

can last about 30mins and happens when I click any forum link, e.g new topic, reply, view forum etc.

It will then clear and work as normal. But when it does it it will take a good minute or more to load the page.

Often I manage to get through about 2-3 links of FSI or PF before coming back to a loaded page.

I will update when it has actually happened again :)

Ta

That is all.
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Postby Smo on Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:01 am

AOL, 2MBit

IE6

About 11:50pm

Clicked a topic in Member's Gallery, and it took in excess of 3 mins or so for any response. Actual page loading time was slow, but nothing compared to the time it took to respond.
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Postby andymac on Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:03 am

IE 7 sometimes gives the appearance of being slow due to off-screen prerendering. :)
Nothing to see here...
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Postby Smo on Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:13 pm

Here we go again...

AOL, 2MBit

IE6

About 5:35pm

Clicked General Car Discusion, and it took probably over 5 minutes to do anything (a guess) and then the page just went blank for ages before actually loading up. Tried to go back to Index and it took ages again... Ended up falling asleep for about half an hour :lol:
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Postby John_D on Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:25 pm

sites unusable, took me 20minutes to get this page, been like that all day, pages taking over 10 minutes to load, all other web pages i visit are fine :-?
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Postby Smo on Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:27 pm

John_D wrote:sites unusable, took me 20minutes to get this page, been like that all day, pages taking over 10 minutes to load, all other web pages i visit are fine :-?

It's running fine for me at the moment though... Odd.

Can you post your details like Mr. Boss Man has asked... Might help him figure out the problem :)
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Postby John_D on Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:01 pm

2MB freedom2surf

firefox (latest version)

18:00-19:30

clicking on various forum catagorys and threads, takes a while, although posting a reply/thread takes even longer, although when i came here to type this it seemed ok, probably take 10 minutes to submit now :lol:
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Postby dontpannic on Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:16 pm

NTL / Virgin Media customers can use proxies here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker

Give that a go and report back - some NTL franchises use transparent proxies which are damn slow, and this has resolved some issues.

I can report that the site can be randomly slow - sometimes it works fine sometimes its quite slow.

Virgin Media 10mb broadband

6-10pm

IE6/IE7/Firefox

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Postby heeman10 on Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:48 pm

It's stopped working time and time again today, but I'm afraid that's the norm these days :( I dropped Crapi an MSN rant once or twice, but it's so regular it hardly seems worth logging the times - particularly frustrating each time I try to edit the bigass T-shirt thread, and it freezes when clicking Submit, then the page cannot be found after several minutes.
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Postby Capri on Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:32 pm

Freedom2Surf 2MB

IE6

No particular time of day

Site runs slowly in particular when trying to post replies to posts or new posts. It'll act like it's loading, then come up with a 'Page Not Found' error after about 3 or 4 minutes. Then when I return, I find that the post has actually been made. Quite often it'll do this a few times, and then revert to normal. I've also noticed that if I try to click any links (e.g. if I want to forget making the post and return to the index instead) while it's doing this, the same thing happens. Seems like the server just doesn't want to respond for a time.

EDIT: Oh the irony. It just did it while posting this. :lol: Then IE crashed. Argh!
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Postby heeman10 on Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:54 pm

Happened to me all day again today. Would load the top of the screen on occasions, but only as far as the Index link before the "good stuff" starts. Every other time it refused to load anything at all :(
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Postby Superal on Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:48 pm

forum went funny about 1:50pm today..kept getting page cannot be displayed after delay of about 5mins when posting...went ok again about 2:10
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Postby j7aoc on Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:35 pm

Slow then my x-girlfriends :cry:
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Postby pitslayer on Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:13 am

slow 4-05am till 4-13am
Get your PHD, in Breastating, apply with in for more details
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Postby Smo on Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:25 pm

My third post... :lol:

AOL, 2MBit

IE6

About 12:15 to 12:20pm (today obviously)

Just waited for a page in Parts For Sale to respond; just took aaaages. Then it did something, screen stayed blank for a minute or so, then it loaded.
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Postby JamieFRST on Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:47 pm

MixonFRST wrote:ISP is Eclipse 8Mb Home 6Mb work
IE 7 & Firefox 2.0.0.3



Seems ok for me at the moment, only 10 users online though
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Postby heeman10 on Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:38 am

Still routinely breaking down for anything between one and twenty minutes at a time, several times a day.
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Postby Smo on Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:40 pm

Wow, wasn't do a thing for me just now between 1:20 and 1:36ish pm.
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Postby JamieFRST on Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:43 pm

Ive been getting page not displayed for the last 15mins, then was logged out when I got back on.
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Postby Smo on Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:52 pm

Something seemed to get messed up during that 'dead' patch too...

I posted a reply in the Member's Gallery, which is currently top of the forum, but when you look at the last poster for that forum from the Index, it's sphinx, who posted about an hour and a half before... It's not cookies or anything at my end either :-?
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Postby Ghost on Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:30 pm

right, couldnt log on at all just then for a 10 minutes.

All it did was continue trying to load a blank page and then timed itself out. Although it didnt say that, it just stopped trying to load and stayed on a blank white page.
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Postby Peanut1 on Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:43 pm

Yes this site is getting worse :x tried three time to get onto it, 4th time lucky. And its been like this all day
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Postby Ghost on Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:36 pm

right, just got locked out again for about 5 minutes.

Wouldnt load.



Just to let you know, I'm not being a picky baxtered, I appreciate the running of the site. Just trying to help out improve things!
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Postby heeman10 on Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:15 pm

I was locked out from about 9:20 till 9:50 or so, then 10:30 till 11pm ish...had submitted a reply, it didn't time out, but half an hour later when the site started working again, it hadn't posted my reply.
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Postby black2 on Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:34 pm

Took me ages to load tonight. :rolleyes: :(

Also i find at 1.00pm (my lunch break) weekdays it can be very very slow, i will try and find out the details our end for you.

Tis highly highly frustrating though.

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Postby JamieFRST on Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:43 pm

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Postby CyberMODS on Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:29 pm

got something for people to try (firefox users)

goto google and type

adblock plus

install it and then subscribe to all the block lists and then try FT

i find its all the advertising that slows this site down
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Postby JamieFRST on Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:52 pm

Ive got the adverts blocked in my hosts file and the forum is still slow for me.
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