Why are pages from this site loading so sloooooow....?

[LawyerRon]

A few times yesterday, and now today the pages from this site are taking about 60 seconds to load. What's up? Is some work still being done on the site?

[glc]

It's the ad banners.

[LawyerRon]

Now the pages are loading fast like before. Did something change?

[LawyerRon]

I don't know what's up but the pages are taking 90 seconds to load now. The same thing happened yesterday at work. Is the problem on my end or with the site? This has never happened to me before.

[bob]

When it happens look at bottom left corner of your screen. It should show the page that is attempting to load. Probably a busy add link.

[fordvan]

Same here Ron,The pages load a lot slower than the old setup !

[bailey]

not a problem here, all pages load in a blink of a eye, click on something and it is there like now.

[LawyerRon]

Hey bailey,
I don't know what's up, but now it's working fine; "blink of the eye" like you said.

[bailey]

could even be the web, some days there have been times I could not even get the full page of my home start page on earthlink, I would get about half the page and then it would quit, no activity on the modem, but can click on favorits, pcmech,and then the same problem, half page, then I would shut down internet, restart, then it will be perfect, sometimes I would have to do it a few times before it is a good connection, I always connect at 50,666, I think it may be a phone line connection problem.

[Jomama]

I havent noticed any slowdown lately. It could be on your end.Or the Web in general. If a page takes more than a few seconds toload, I just "stop" then call it again. "Refresh" doesnt usually work in those circumstances.

[fredwest]

Hi guys,
I notice that PcMech always seem to 'pause' during loading and then BANG.....the whole site suddenly appears!

I find it a little slower now and again but once the page loads it's loaded. There's no hanging around waiting for half of the page etc to load up. It all loads in one go.....just like before.

I'm not complaining!!


Yours

Declan (aka fredwest)

[LawyerRon]

Must be something with the Web. It's working great now.

[LawyerRon]

Pages are back to taking 90 seconds to load again. This NEVER happened once before the change. It was the same way at work today where we have ISDN. It only happens on this site. If anyone figures it out, let me know.

[jeresimo]

Yup, it was slow then, until I increased another 200MB of my Temp Internet Files Settings. No more waiting here.

[hackercarlos]

Seems fast to me today.

Yesterday it seems like it was having some probs

[LawyerRon]

Hey Jer, I'll give it a try.

[LawyerRon]

Hey jeresimo,
Your tip worked. Pages load very fast now.

Thanks

[reibow]

I have been having trouble with this site for last couple of hours. Then the banner ads died and shortly after that this site disappeared and when I tried to refresh to my home page the whole thing shut down including my connection. Oops here it goes again hope I get this posted before it goes down again.

[reibow]

Yep - got dumped again. Rang my ISP for advice - after waitng on the helpline for 20 mins got some kid who treated me like a piece of dog poo so I let him have it (I'm not sure if he understood it all because my Scottish brogue takes over when angry). But guess what - I am back in cyberspace with an increase from 2400cps to 3150 cps throughput and Zonealarm tells me ISP is checking me out every 10 mins.
Surfing's great when the waves are bigger!

So I don't think my problem was the same as LawyerRon's.

[Rick Hall]

I have also started encountering problems since Sunday.
Sometimes the site just stalls and nothing will load until you click on refresh. This was not a problem before, and I do not have the problem on any of the other sites.

[LawyerRon]

Hey Rick,
jeresimo's Tip worked for me. I increased the temp settings and all's well.

[Eaglefeather]

I'm having problems as well. Can not even get into a couple of the forums. They give all indications of loading, but all I get is a blank white screen, but at the bottom it says Document: Done.

Reload doesn't help.

How do I increase the size of my "Temp internet files". I am using NS 4.7?

[Jomama]

Internet Options> General>Temp Internet files>Settings
I only use IE but HTH

[glc]

Eagle - its in Preferences, Advanced, Cache, Disk cache.

However, I'm not convinced this is the problem because I have been experiencing this off and on with Netscape and my cache is 20 megs (MUCH larger than the default 7 megs).

It's stalling on "Contacting www2.efront.com". This tells me the site server *is* having problems - prolly a tuning or load balancing issue that the host needs to take a look at.

This is one advantage of Netscape over IE - Netscape resolves the IP to name in its status bar where IE just tells you the IP address it's trying to contact.

[Eaglefeather]

Thanks for the info.

I think you are probably right. I have not been able to get into some of the forums at all. It took 10 trys this morning to get this one to load.

I do not have a problem at any of the other BB's I go to every day, including Forum Click.

Hope Drisley or Doc are monitoring this thread.

[Jomama]

Hey Ron, just a reminder about the downside of too large a TIF. You will have to remember to Refresh more often.

[Eaglefeather]

Increased the cache, but it didn't help. Some of the forums will not load, without repeated try's, and some take forever to load.

I think I will post a msg in General Topic's to make sure Doc and Drisley are aware of the problem. Since they have not replied at all to this thread there is a good chance they don't know.

[SARGE]

You shouldn't have to turn on/off or increase or adjust anything just to access pcmech.com. Least that's my opinion

[M. A. Dockter]

Here's the saga guys.
I hate to say this, but David nor I can do anythign about the slow add banners. Ever since eFront bought PCMech and Max3D from PCMedia (David) they've wanted to use their own add banners, which are horribly slow. If you just hit the 'stop' button when the slowdowns are occuring, the page should load, and the banners should just come up as broken pictures...that's at least what I've found.

[jeresimo]

LawyerRon, you are welcome

I don't know about others, but after I increased my Temp Internet Files and also put my HISTORY to zero "0", I don't see any delays loading from any site anymore. My system is a SERVER with a P11 66, 300mhz, mmx with a 64mb ram only and with ICS on a CLIENT Unit on the other room. I use NETZERO with it's new version of NZTV port, with an average connections from 49,333 to 51,000 bps. I am completely satified although it has an AD banner, but relocated it so as it wont be distracting any inside views anymore. Anyway, it's a FREE ISP. Cheers to Netzero!!!!