[GregW / Oregon]

I visit 6 or so automotive forums regularly, and this one is by far the slowest. It is far slower than any I have experienced. Could we like take up a pool for some new servers, or something?

 

[sosh]

Agreed, and in the last few weeks there have been numerous times I could not even get on due to timeouts. I use a T1 line in my office and a cable connection at home. This has been a problem, on and off with this forum as long as I can remember.

 

[bayles999]

I agree, I am on a cable connection and at times the homepage loads at speeds slower than a dial-up connection.

 

[jean7of9]

I have a DSL connection of 2.5Mbits/s. During my daily visit to this forum I have never experienced a slow down. The page downloads within a second.

 

[AutoSaurus]

Ditto, Ditto, Ditto.

 

[MLOffRoad]

WOW .. I thought I was alone on this. I would not mind donating a few bucks to the cause !!

 

[dakat]

Ditto on the DSL. No problems here!! [8D]

 

[GregW / Oregon]

dakat - 4/17/2005 10:02 PM

Ditto on the DSL. No problems here!! [8D]

It's really variable--this morning it is very fast. But I have 4 mbps cable at home an T1 at the office, and either location it can slow toa crawl (45 sec loads or timeout) when other sites are working fine.

 

[Drew]

Guys, there was a problem with our T1 line's service provider (AT&T). Frank was aware of this and evidently a fix has been in place.

Personally the site loads quite quickly for me, except of course when I'm on my hiptop2 (Sidekick2 for those of you in the US). Of course, there are also peak times, such as the early morning, noon Pacific Std time, or the evening, where we get much more traffic.

 

[malibuite]

Also, for those of you at work, it seems a firewall can really slow things down depending on how it is configured.

I have DSL at home and a firewall but the forum loads quickly there. However, at work with a T1 line and firewall it is as slow as molasses. IS tells me it is probably because there firewall settings are very restrictive.