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01-09-2007, 07:45 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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| | | Site running slow.
Is anyone else having problems with access to threads and images? On my computer it's painfully slow, and has been for the last two days. It will occasionally speed up, but for the most part, it's as if I'm back on dial up! |
01-09-2007, 07:54 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The sunny West Midlands.
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Originally Posted by glsammy  Is anyone else having problems with access to threads and images? On my computer it's painfully slow, and has been for the last two days. It will occasionally speed up, but for the most part, it's as if I'm back on dial up! |
Mines running normally.
Keith |
01-09-2007, 08:51 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: SE Northumberland
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It does seem to be taking its time loading pages/images tonight Graham.
Mark H |
01-09-2007, 09:23 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Small North Lincolnshire village
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Originally Posted by glsammy Is anyone else having problems with access to threads and images? On my computer it's painfully slow, and has been for the last two days. It will occasionally speed up, but for the most part, it's as if I'm back on dial up! | Same here Graham it's painfully slow tonight for me, in fact I gave up at one stage it was that slow
Roger |
01-09-2007, 09:37 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The sunny West Midlands.
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Still running at the normal speed , here in the sunny West Midlands.
Keith. |
01-09-2007, 10:05 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by Ollie Same here Graham it's painfully slow tonight for me, in fact I gave up at one stage it was that slow
Roger | Yep, it's a pain at the moment. Yesterday I gave up, couldn't do a thing. Today it's slightly better, in fact after I started this thread it suddenly improved and was fine for about 10 minutes, then when I tried some updates, back to slow loading, in fact no loading! |
01-09-2007, 10:06 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by kshotton45 Still running at the normal speed , here in the sunny West Midlands.
Keith. | No gloating please.  |
01-09-2007, 10:20 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: SE Northumberland
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It seems to be running in fits and starts Graham, slow for a few mins then goes back to normal.I thought it was my wireless connection until you posted saying you were having the same problems.
Mark H |
01-09-2007, 10:36 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The sunny West Midlands.
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It seems to be a North East problem. Is there anyone in the South West who is having problems ?
Keith. |
01-09-2007, 10:55 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by mh68 It seems to be running in fits and starts Graham, slow for a few mins then goes back to normal.I thought it was my wireless connection until you posted saying you were having the same problems.
Mark H | Yep, that's exactly what it's like here. Yesterday the entire Internet was slow, but today it's definitely WAB. Hope it improves tomorrow! |
03-09-2007, 12:09 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Today access is even worse.  It's taking over a minute to change from post to post, so bad I'm switching off for until later.
I just hope it speeds up then. |
03-09-2007, 12:18 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Leicestershire
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that's strange, I haven't had any problems at all.  You would think problems would be experienced by everyone
Matt |
03-09-2007, 01:05 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: SE Northumberland
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No problems here today either, seems a lot faster than the other night.
Mark H |
03-09-2007, 03:57 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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It must be a problem with my ISP, because it's terrible here. I've tried on two computers, it makes no difference.
It makes moderating a real pain in the you know what!  |
03-09-2007, 04:09 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: West Lothian
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| | | Re: Site running slow.
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Originally Posted by glsammy It must be a problem with my ISP, because it's terrible here. I've tried on two computers, it makes no difference.
It makes moderating a real pain in the you know what! | Graham you can test your ISP speed by using - www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.
I had a problem several months ago with my ISP and used the information received from the above mentioned to prove it was an ISP problem. I don't know what they did but within a few days of giving them the details of the 'speed test' things improved. I have had no problems since.
Just hope I haven't spoken too soon!
John D |
03-09-2007, 04:14 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
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yes mine is slow been like it for days now,thought it was just my pc i live in cambridgeshire. |
03-09-2007, 04:29 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by John D Graham you can test your ISP speed by using - www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.
I had a problem several months ago with my ISP and used the information received from the above mentioned to prove it was an ISP problem. I don't know what they did but within a few days of giving them the details of the 'speed test' things improved. I have had no problems since.
Just hope I haven't spoken too soon!
John D | Thank you for that link John. I've just run it, and guess what, my upstream result is terrible, only 375.45 kbps!
That's enough ammunition to contact my ISP. |
03-09-2007, 05:15 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: West Lothian
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Originally Posted by glsammy Thank you for that link John. I've just run it, and guess what, my upstream result is terrible, only 375.45 kbps!
That's enough ammunition to contact my ISP. | Graham, please note the speed can vary depending on time of day. It's worth doing tests throughout the day, say at 2 hourly intervals. I logged the readings obtained and presented the outcome to my ISP (Wanadoo now Orange) |
03-09-2007, 05:20 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by John D Graham, please note the speed can vary depending on time of day. It's worth doing tests throughout the day, say at 2 hourly intervals. I logged the readings obtained and presented the outcome to my ISP (Wanadoo now Orange) | Actually, I got it wrong, mixing my Kbps up! The readings are fine, just what they should be.
I've now uninstalled IE7, just to see if it makes any difference. So far it does seem better, but I'll need to keep on checking. |
03-09-2007, 05:24 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006
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| | | Re: Site running slow.
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Originally Posted by glsammy It must be a problem with my ISP, because it's terrible here. I've tried on two computers, it makes no difference.
It makes moderating a real pain in the you know what! | Who are you with? ntl seems to be running at speed and I am in the same location as you are.
Have you checked you modem cable for knots?
Saying that, my network was down early this morning. |
03-09-2007, 05:47 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: SE Northumberland
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Are you running the comp wireless to the Router/Modem Graham? I had a similar problem when i first got my laptop and found changing wireless channels on the router sorted things out.
Mark H |
03-09-2007, 06:00 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by Interpreter Who are you with? ntl seems to be running at speed and I am in the same location as you are.
Have you checked you modem cable for knots?
Saying that, my network was down early this morning. | I'm also with Virgin/ntl. I think I've solved it, or at least found the guilty bit of software. Removing IE7 made no difference, but un-installing Virgins security software did. It's as if my computer has come back to life. Now all I've got to do is find out why it's suddenly gone wrong.  |
03-09-2007, 06:27 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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| | | Re: Site running slow.
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Originally Posted by mh68 Are you running the comp wireless to the Router/Modem Graham? I had a similar problem when i first got my laptop and found changing wireless channels on the router sorted things out.
Mark H | No Mark, no wireless at all here. I'm pretty certain it's now sorted. It was definitely part of Virgins PC security software, the identity theft protection checker seems to be the culprit. I've got everything else now switched back on and all is as it should be. It's weird though, It's been working perfectly well for weeks until last weekend. Only seems to stop WAB though, it must think we're an unsavoury lot. |
03-09-2007, 08:57 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Hetton le Hole Tyne & Wear
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I live in the north east and generally things seem OK, maybe a little erratic at certain times of the day. I think I read somewhere that the internet is becoming overloaded and it may be thay oinks like us are, in effect, being rationed.
By the way I am finding on this site a another similar I'm being connected at the time before last or earlier although this can usually be rectified by refreshing. I think I should ask ISP (orange ) to do a line test. | |
