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Pincho Paxton
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When do we get the new site?

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Hawkeye
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o.0


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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 19:36
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I agree, it has been really chugging lately...

At first I thought it was my Internet connection here at Uni is being split between so many computers that everything's going slow... Then I realized "Hey, it's 4-bloody-am, who in their right mind is using the net at this hour!?"

So... Yeah

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spooky
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I also find the site goes down quite a bit aswell, or only the top banner of forum appears and rest doesn't bother loading.

Not been too bad last few days though.

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Hawkeye
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Weird. Loading time is like less than a half second for me


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ionstream
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Yep, for me it's going pretty blazing fast.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 21:11
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Im on 512K, seems perfectly normal - infact, it is comparitively fast and loads the important stuff first unlike most sites.


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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 21:15
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2mb it's been hell slow here

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David T
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 21:19
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It's okay browsing, but when posting it grinds to a halt.

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Jess T
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 21:55
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I'm in the same position as Sunrise there...
I've got a fast connection here, and can download at up to about 1.5MBytes/s, so connection speed ( on my behalf ) certainly isn't the issue!

And, I get the issue Spooky mentioned - 'tis weird, I thought only I got it though

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Benjamin
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 21:56
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Quote: "or only the top banner of forum appears and rest doesn't bother loading."

I've noticed that sometimes.

Quote: " It's okay browsing, but when posting it grinds to a halt.
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I've noticed this too.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 22:00
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What ISP are you people using? I am using Virgin Broadband 'cos its cheap and limitless.


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soapyfish
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56k here and I'm managing. Maybe I'm just used to the sssllllllooooowwwwnnneeessss.

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Dodic
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Its mainly becouse of signature pictures, if those were forbidden, it would run much faster, my suggestion is to deny image sigs in the future.


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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 22:54
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But you have one.

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Jeku
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 22:57
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It's probably location--- i.e. only the Europeans seem to have trouble with the site. I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary since the servers were moved to NA.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Maybe a image Kb limit of 250kb?


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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 00:23
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I have 2Mb Broadband or 2.2 or something. Yeah could be Europe. It's like having spyware running.

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soapyfish
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Quote: "Its mainly becouse of signature pictures, if those were forbidden, it would run much faster, my suggestion is to deny image sigs in the future."


Yeh, now I think about it I have signature images disabled in my profile. That's probably why I can't make a cuppa between thread views.

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French gui
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Yes, randomly slow for me. Sometimes I must give up and come back half an hour after.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 00:30
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For me it isn't the case that it's slow, it's that it either loads pretty much instantly, or freezes for quite a while before loading at all.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 00:33
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Yeah it's fast then slow, then fast, and posting is nearly always slow. Sometimes the site does not load properly.

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Saikoro
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I experience the same thing as Benjamin. Of course, I'm also on a wireless router (Netgear ) so that may be why, but it seems to happen on just this site more than any others.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 00:39
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Yeah, mainly just this site.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 00:54
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Wasn't too many newsletters ago that Rich mentioned an online game he'd taken a liking too. I get the feeling his laptop can't cope with running that AND the forum. Explains the randomness.

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Milkman
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Is he really hosting this site from a laptop, or was that sarcasm?


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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 01:04
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No... Rich said the site is hosted on a Palm.

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Zone Chicken
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Not really slow here 512k cable but i have noticed and this happens quite a bit at least to me, i click a thread read and use back to go back to the main category and the screen is just grey and never loads. Doesn't matter how long i wait i've gone outside smoked a ciggy and came back still just grey have to reopen explorer and it works fine. At first i though it might be explorer but it seems to be exclusive to this site since i view a couple 3d modeling forums and one game forum and no problems on those.

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Saikoro
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I heard it was a modded iPod.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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I am on a wireless router, in the UK with half-broadband and the pages load in 0.25 seconds to 0.5 seconds with no exceptions. You should stop downloading DVDS at the same time.


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Dodic
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I thought this site is hosted on a TV remote controller...


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Oneka
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ahh and there goes Dodic to ruin another yet funny joke....
Maybe if you remove the Signature it would run faster....I think your making the forum slow with your 'Signature' I DUN LIKE IT! soo 90's ish


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Benjamin
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He didn't ruin it.

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I think it's hosted on a toaster (have I ruined it yet)?

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Saikoro
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It's hosted on a bar of soap.
It's hosted on an empty Bawls bottle.
It's hosted on the Internet.
It's hosted on Jake the Bum.

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Jeku
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Quote: "It's hosted on Jake the Bum."


Now I will go kill myself.

But yes, I heard that it was hosted on a Commodore 64 with 300baud modem. Booyah! (killed the joke now)


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Oneka
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no..you sorta saved it....atleast a commodore can do something then *cough* Jake the Bum. *cough*


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Benjamin
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Quote: "It's hosted on the Internet."

omg lawlz u r funi lol.

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I just squid'd my network so my cache is a lot quicker and going back over older posts is a lightning blink with this new proxy installed, yum.

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Quote: "Im on 512K, seems perfectly normal - infact, it is comparitively fast and loads the important stuff first unlike most sites."

Same here! But sometimes it does freeze!

I heard he was hosting on a 99Mgz 24Mb RAM 500Mb HDD 4Kbps computer.
I think I may get that computer!

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All idiotic jokes aside...

My internet connection is definatly not the problem.
Neither is the fact that people have sig-images... I have them disabled in my profile, so I don't load a single one.

The thing is, half the site seems to come out ( The top banner ), then the rest just gives up...

Basically, THIS SITE is the problem, not any of our connections!

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The forum subdomain is hosted by "layered tech" and the www.thegamecreators.com is hosted by pair networks. Now, given how much Rich has raved about Pair Networks in the past, I imagine layered tech are just a cheaper provider - because the forum eats through so much bandwidth.

Cheaper Provider = slower/less reliable

I could be wrong, but that explanation makes sense to me.

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Layered tech are at the savvis datacenter, and yes, are considered to be a buget company

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SirFire
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Also the forum goes down every sunday like clockwork, is that scheduled downtime? Sometimes it doesn't come back up until monday morning

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wow curreclty this forum is really annoying me nt sure if its my isp or browser playing up, clicking some links take 5-10 secs to load :/. but yes sometimes it works fine, and i havent ntoiced the banners at the top not loading for a while in uk i used to not see them all the time.

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Agent Dink
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I have dial-up here... runs totally normal for me. Slow, but no slower than any other site or slower than this has ever ran before.

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Im yet to have a problem with it...

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During the recent few days it's safe to say, for me at least, that I've encountered no problems.

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This problem seems to happen mostly on weekends for me. Then again that´s when I mainly use the forum. Does it affect anyone in then US? Might only affect people outside the country whee the server is.

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Chris Franklin
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I've been taking a look at it see what's slowing it down on loading seems like those googleads seem to slow loading alot sometimes sometimes tho it's images
@Dodic it's possible to switch sig images off

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