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Thread ID: 30990 2003-03-08 19:43:00 Help PF1 takes about 30s to load Trev0 (1995) Press F1
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126661 2003-03-09 04:43:00 It's amazing how many people talk about how SLow PF1 loads and somehow I doubt that even half of them

* Have guns to their heads with 5 seconds to load the page before their brains are blown out

* Leaving to go to work but can't live throughout the day not knowing the responses to a thread

* Need to go to the toilet urgently, but can't stand waiting to get out to read the replies

Or some other reason that they HAVE to get the page loading faster......

Patience is a virture people....
Kibito (623)
126662 2003-03-09 05:54:00 Trev0 you are so lucky to be getting pages within 30 seconds! I am currently having to wait up to 3 minutes for the main PF1 page to reload and any threads I click on, and that is if it doesn't give me the good old "page not found" message first! :_|

It is not the ads slowing me down because my firewall blocks them. Another visit to the modem speed test page gives me this on 56K dial up:

2.23 KBps (KiloBytes per second)
2283.48 Bps (Bytes per second)
25118.33 bps (bits per second)

The test page took : 35.875 seconds to load

Which is actually a good result compared to some of the speeds I get.

It is very frustrating to surf this site (and others) with these speeds and regular time-outs. I have been assuming it is an on-going problem at my end or with my ISP.

Jen :-(
Jen C (20)
126663 2003-03-09 06:03:00 Are you on poor quality rural phone lines.
What modem make and model do you have.
Jim B (153)
126664 2003-03-09 06:27:00 > Are you on poor quality rural phone lines.
> What modem make and model do you have.

Who me?

I am on a good line (not rural), and regularly connect at between 46 - 49 Kbps. I rarely get disconnections. My modem is external - Dynalink 56K e-modem 1456VQE. My ISP is Actrix.

I am currently working my way through various trouble-shooting ideas, so I haven't given up yet. I have been having problems for a wee while now which seem to be getting a lot worse recently.

I just found it interesting to see other people have been getting slow page loading here at PF1.

Sorry Trev0 for the little hijack of your thread :8}
Jen C (20)
126665 2003-03-09 07:32:00 don't worry Jen C it's heartening to see someone doing worse than me
keep it up!

Trev
Trev0 (1995)
126666 2003-03-09 07:34:00 good 1 Thomas, I'll try that later....! Trev0 (1995)
126667 2003-03-09 07:41:00 >good 1 Thomas, I'll try that later....!

Took 9.5 hrs to reply to that bit of wit,are you sure its the modem thats slow?;)

PS,my pop up stopper sops emoticom list popping.:D
Thomas (1820)
126668 2003-03-09 08:26:00 errr.... Trev0 (1995)
126669 2003-03-09 08:38:00 >
> I am on a good line (not rural), and regularly
> connect at between 46 - 49 Kbps.
Hello Jen C. Your connections sounds irksome. In Wgtn on a dialup just now PF1 was up in 6 secs - 48 K connection Paradise with 4 phones on the line.

Start tinkering !!!!!
TonyF (246)
126670 2003-03-09 09:17:00 Tony, what do we all tinker with? Trev0 (1995)
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