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I run IE 6.0 also, and it loads very slowly for me. However I'm fairly certain it's my ISP, they aren't the greatest....But I have found a great way to pass the time....I open a game of spider solitaire, and play while the page is loading. Does anyone know if there is a Spider Solitaire recovery group? I think I am in serious need of one...I'm almost disapointed when the page opens (and not just here....any page, I think I have a serious problem!) :D
When you're trying out different browseres, make sure to test them one after the other...AO, like a lot of forum sites, seems to vary a lot in terms of speed. I've seen uncached pages take anywhere from half a sec to thrity secs to load.
IE6 with a 256 Leased Line ... and everything is just fine with me ...
but it happen to be slow from time to time ...
i think it has something to do with number of users online ...
the more users the slow it goes ....
and i think this thread should be moved to site sugg. !
I've noticed also that the site has become increasingly slow, but it is still a quick site... The little message at the bottom that tells how long it took the server to generate your page is nice... I've noticed it change quite a lot over the last two or so weeks... The increased delay appears to have come from a hack attempt on AntiOnline a few days back... The type appeared to be a DoS attack, because when I checked the Who's Online Section, there were over 1,000 guests, all at the home page... (I have an archive of it, but am not distributing it (yet?) - 1.27MB HTML File)
The attempt occured around 8:00PM, 3 - 9 - 2002 (My Time, Japan, +9 Hours). Before that, it would take about 0.000072 seconds or so for the server to make my page... After the attempt, it takes almost a second... I think the timer thing is about how long it takes the page to be made on the server, not how long it takes to download. I have a 56k connection, so I doubt it would take 0.000072 seconds to download it all...
Anyways, this is just what I think is the cause of it...
-Tim_axe
I´ve no problem during the day here but after 6:00 pm GMT it´s no use trying to get on AO. Any other europeans experiencing this?
Hello Pooh-Bear.
I have no problems with connection to AO any time the day (or night).. Sometimes its slower and sometimes pages do not load to 100% . But overall is the performance good, the most of the problems can I blame on my ISP who is a bit crappy.. They have bandwidth limitations and the only way to get a decent speed is to use their proxy.. But this proxy are down now and then (read : often), thats my only problem for the moment :).Quote:
Originally posted here by Pooh-Bear
I´ve no problem during the day here but after 6:00 pm GMT it´s no use trying to get on AO. Any other europeans experiencing this?
The pages load the same all the time. Even tough I have a fast connection AO takes ages to load.Quote:
Originally posted here by Pooh-Bear
I´ve no problem during the day here but after 6:00 pm GMT it´s no use trying to get on AO. Any other europeans experiencing this?
But I use Mozilla, so guess I might as well stfu :)
oh and Gepeto I never said anything about the database, just that loading AO pages takes long.
When I´m on AO I use three different highspeed connections depending on my location. Two different T1´s and (not so often) a fiber connection. (and IE 5.5)
AO does seem quite slow on my 56k connection with IE, but I think its more down to the time required to render the tables more than anything else. Even when I execute queries on my local server it takes >0.3 seconds to respond, so AO isn't that slow really, considering how many hits it must get each day.