Boomboxery speed issues

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Anyone else have issues with slowness on this site? Doesn't matter which browser I'm using, everything I click on this site takes at least 20 seconds to respond.....And sometimes it times out without ever responding.

I don't think I've ever said anything about it before, but I think it's been like this ever since I've been a member.

I doubt it's something in my browser settings, because this is the only site I have significant problems with.

If it's a hardware/bandwidth limitation, how much money would it take to get to the next level of performance? Let us know if we can help.
 
Ken

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I know what you mean. It's been awful slow up here as well tonight. Must be a West Coast thing. As far as the duration of this problem, it never seems to last long. Soon the speed goes right back to it's normal lickety-split.
 
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It happens occasionally to me too. I never can tell if it's my craptastic Comcast connection or the site because, at times, even Google's homepage takes darn near 5 to 10 seconds to load.
 
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the orig site was more peppy. After the migration, I noticed it was far more sluggish making for a poor experience. Either it's better now or I've gotten used to it.
 
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Fatdog said:
It happens occasionally to me too. I never can tell if it's my craptastic Comcast connection or the site because, at times, even Google's homepage takes darn near 5 to 10 seconds to load.
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Maybe it's Comcast then. They're a monopoly I'll never subscribe to.
 
Ghettoboom767

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Maybe it's Comcast then. They're a monopoly I'll never subscribe to.
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Amen to that!! All cable companies manipulate and mess with us here in the US! It's a documented fact,was listening to a Harvard professor talk about this fact.
Other countries like Sweden,Germany,Switzerland have well established Cable optic fibre networks where there speed is 10 times the speed at 1/4th the cost here.
Yes Comcast,Charter are extremely evil monopolies here!!!!!
 
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Nah no issues with my provider, it happens while breezing through other sites just fine

Edit: Took 20+ seconds to submit that post, and it didn't even give me a confirmation.....I had to refresh the page to confirm that it actually took my post.

Edit x 2: And then I clicked Edit and it refused to let me edit, I just got the green status bar for 20+ seconds, forcing me to hit Refresh and try again.

Sometimes even the thread Preview function jams up. I try it thinking it'll be faster than opening the thread, but no.
 
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Happens on both Firefox and IE. I'm not going to use Chrome, I'm not a fan of their business practices.
 
Beosystem10

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Superduper said:
maybe try a different browser?
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I've tried all of mine; Firefox, Konqueror, Safari and Chromium (the open source browser that Google cuckooed to create Chrome) and all are as good or as bad as each other which is pretty much as I'd expect there.
But then, and having had no trouble with this or any other forum on my works network, at home or on the road, I wondered whether - but couldn't think of how - this could have been an O/S thing so I called in on a friend who still uses MIcro$oft Windoze (7EdPro 64 bit) to see whether this might be the case and sure enough, on her expensive dozer with its 2.8GHz quad core CPU and 32GB of DDR5 ram, the forum took ages to load as I went through from one page to another where my three year old, entry level Dell Vostro 1015 (core2 duo P8600 - 2.4GHz, 3MB L2 cache, 8GB DDR3 12800) wiped the floor with her expensive paperweight.

The only possible explanation is that my machine, like every other in use by the LEA and by me for personal use, runs Linux, in this case Ubuntu as supplied by Dell when new and currently running 12.04.4lts and in the case of my Google-issued CR-48 (test pilot's Chromebook from early 2011); Debian-based Mint which also storms through the forum as it does with all of the fora I visit and post up to, that in spite of its only being blessed with 2GB of DDR3 ram and a soldered in 1.7GHz Atom.


I've yet to try the forum on something Apple flavoured but my Dad's publisher's art department uses Macs so I'll see what the craic is there when next I'm up to pick up some perspex counter stands for him.

Coincidence? Cannae see it somehow.
 
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Beosystem10 said:
I've tried all of mine; Firefox, Konqueror, Safari and Chromium (the open source browser that Google cuckooed to create Chrome) and all are as good or as bad as each other which is pretty much as I'd expect there.
But then, and having had no trouble with this or any other forum on my works network, at home or on the road, I wondered whether - but couldn't think of how - this could have been an O/S thing so I called in on a friend who still uses MIcro$oft Windoze (7EdPro 64 bit) to see whether this might be the case and sure enough, on her expensive dozer with its 2.8GHz quad core CPU and 32GB of DDR5 ram, the forum took ages to load as I went through from one page to another where my three year old, entry level Dell Vostro 1015 (core2 duo P8600 - 2.4GHz, 3MB L2 cache, 8GB DDR3 12800) wiped the floor with her expensive paperweight.

The only possible explanation is that my machine, like every other in use by the LEA and by me for personal use, runs Linux, in this case Ubuntu as supplied by Dell when new and currently running 12.04.4lts and in the case of my Google-issued CR-48 (test pilot's Chromebook from early 2011); Debian-based Mint which also storms through the forum as it does with all of the fora I visit and post up to, that in spite of its only being blessed with 2GB of DDR3 ram and a soldered in 1.7GHz Atom.


I've yet to try the forum on something Apple flavoured but my Dad's publisher's art department uses Macs so I'll see what the craic is there when next I'm up to pick up some perspex counter stands for him.

Coincidence? Cannae see it somehow.
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I use Win7 too, but I don't see why that would be responsible, seeing as how I have no trouble with other sites. And I shouldn't need a lot of RAM or CPU power to browse a rather standard discussion forum that's largely free of plug-ins and animations.
 
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Ghettoboom767 said:
Amen to that!! All cable companies manipulate and mess with us here in the US! It's a documented fact,was listening to a Harvard professor talk about this fact.
Other countries like Sweden,Germany,Switzerland have well established Cable optic fibre networks where there speed is 10 times the speed at 1/4th the cost here.
Yes Comcast,Charter are extremely evil monopolies here!!!!!
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And on top of that, they are trying to buy Time Warner :thumbsdown:
 
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