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| Thread ID: 30932 | 2003-03-07 05:50:00 | PressF1 advertising | Baldy (26) | Press F1 |
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| 126237 | 2003-03-08 09:38:00 | Ps. If you're interested, it takes my comp around 30 seconds to load any page here on pf1, does that make each page around 300kb's ?? Trev |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 126238 | 2003-03-08 09:53:00 | ?:| Ok last post before i hit the hay . I have questions for you Trev0 :D 1/ What speed does your modem ACTUALLY connect at? If you say 56K, i'll know your modem is lying . Check the little modem icon in the tray, it should say "connected at 40,000Kb/sec" or something 2/ What is the data thoughput rate as you load the page? I'm buzy downloading in the background, so when i loaded this page i only moved it in at 2 or 3 KB/sec tops . This figure should show in the bottom of the browser window as you load a page . . well it does in Konqueror, and i seem to remember something like that last time i used IE . It still took only 10 or so seconds to load the page . NOT 30ish . 3/Just how rural are you? . Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 126239 | 2003-03-08 10:02:00 | well for me it takes about 10seconds without ads and my modem downloads at 2.8kB/s. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 126240 | 2003-03-08 10:05:00 | I'm connected at 45.2Kbps (reported) and the data runs all over the place, usually inbetween 3 and 10 k, not too sure if that's what you're thinking of as I'm using MyIE2 (for the tabs) and I'm an hour inland from chch do you think I may be able to speed something up (hope so!!) Trev |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 126241 | 2003-03-08 11:18:00 | Guys... Can we stick to the topic so it can be dealt with and other people with problems can be helped........ The guy wants to know what to do about the ads. Heres the answer. Either get a popup blocker or norton firewall, or just put up with them. End of story....... Theres no secret little device. No hidden website with that super dooper popup blaster. Just look around and have a browse. Theres nothing more to it........ Next Topic. |
Kibito (623) | ||
| 126242 | 2003-03-08 19:15:00 | Trev0, For me a familiar ad loads pretty much instantly, assuming you are using IE go to tools > internet options > general > temporary internet files > X MB and raise the figure a wee bit, so it remembers the images that get repeated. By memory the default figure is someone low. Increasing this figure should help avoid the ads loading fresh each time. Hey when i'm in Greymouth the reported connection speed on my betterhalfs dial-up connection is usually about 48,000, and the site loads at resonable speed. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 126243 | 2003-03-08 19:28:00 | goodish point kibito, sorry Baldy, but I did think 'load speed' was the issue as opposed to ads. I don't see the right had strip ad (although I have seen it before) I think it might be something to do with the hosts file, on XP, in system32>drivers>etc... Ill post back if I can find out what I did to it! and i'll have a go and start a new thread... Trev |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 126244 | 2003-03-08 19:50:00 | this (http://www.smartin-designs.com/) is where I got the info from and I think(?) is how I lost the RH side ad Trev |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 126245 | 2003-03-08 21:42:00 | Well I have just done a "controlled experiment" . :D Using Opera with my Hosts file (which blocks out the ads) a thread with just one post took 5 seconds to fully load . I know this because Opera has a status bar that has these details on it . Another thread with just one post (chose another one so that it was not in the cache) and with the Hosts file disabled took a whopping 23 seconds to fully load with all the adverts . :O A thread with over 20 replies took 15 seconds to load with no ads, a similar thread took 29 seconds to load with the ads . Not much difference here but I think the ads were already in the cache by then . I consider my connection to be very slow for a "city" location . These threads were loading at between 2 . 6 and 4 . 7 KB/s with nothing else being downloaded, nor the other computer switched on . I know that we need the adverts to keep the forum going but I will be damned if I will wait that long (and much longer when I am downloading or the other PC is on) for each and every thread to load . For me it is far better to disable the Hosts file every few days to see what ads are running and then go back to faster browsing when I have seen them all . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 126246 | 2003-03-08 22:03:00 | If you browse the way that I do it doesn't really matter how long the threads take to load. I'll come home from work/tech and will fire up Phoenix and get it to open up all the bookmarks in the 'Forums' folder :D I then proceed to go through and open every thread which has a new reply in it. If on my reading of these I come across a thread which hasn't fully loaded yet I just proceed to move onto the next one. At home I do usually have the ads disabled by way of a hosts file but I also make a point of checking the forums when I'm at tech and the ads load up then, at quite a speed. The thing I dislike about ads is not so much the time they take to load but the screen realestate that they take up. |
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