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Thread ID: 43345 2004-03-11 18:53:00 Is press F1 SLOW ? JJJJJ (528) Press F1
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221786 2004-03-11 18:53:00 Is anyone else having problems loading Press F1. With me it's very very slow loading. Once it's loaded it's not so bad. I have not seen any complaints so I'm wondering "Why me".
Jack
JJJJJ (528)
221787 2004-03-11 19:45:00 I have noticed that too!

Sometimes I can't even get on. I click on my Favorite to PressF1 and it looks like it's loading but don't get anything on screen. I have left it like this for about 1 hour sometimes and it still has not loaded and don't get the usual errors either like Page cannot be displayed etc. Page just stays blank.
CYaBro (73)
221788 2004-03-11 20:07:00 Yes Jack it is very slow, even with pradise 256k cable :-(
In fact its probably the slowest site that I visit.
I suspect the bottleneck is at IDG end.

Steve
Steve Askew (119)
221789 2004-03-11 21:49:00 Press F1 seems fine now..... stu140103 (137)
221790 2004-03-11 21:58:00 It seems to have its moments. Sometimes it loads at a good speed then other times it struggles. I wonder if it has anything to do with the moon? :p Susan B (19)
221791 2004-03-12 00:01:00 Yeah this forum generally is quite slow to load, regardless of your Internet speed. But you have to remember that it calls upon a huge database, which in turn means that a lot of data gets processed during the time the pages are presented to you.

Having said that, there are bigger but better (read faster) forums around. This issue has been discussed before, and basically it's quite a big task for the whole setup to be changed or upgraded.

In the meantime it still works well 95% of the time, so can't really mutter too much eh
Greg S (201)
221792 2004-03-12 00:14:00 Wasn't realy having a grizzle. Just checking that it wasn't my fault. It usually is.
Jack
JJJJJ (528)
221793 2004-03-12 01:58:00 > I wonder if it has anything to do with the moon?

Yes. Everytime NZ comes into view and links with the reciever station at Waihopai, I upload all my data to the PF1 server where it can be hidden and stored. During these times that will be the slow-down you describe.
PoWa (203)
221794 2004-03-12 03:11:00 heh, sometimes takes 1 minute to load on my 8mb/s full jetstream. mejobloggs (264)
221795 2004-03-12 03:43:00 Yep, slow as crap for me on Full Jetstream too. Chrono (4606)
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