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Thread ID: 96807 2009-01-24 02:59:00 PressF1 speeds / reporting threads Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
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741581 2009-01-28 06:40:00 Is there something wrong with the site again - at the moment since just after mid day its taking ages for anything to load- the only browser thats loading out of 5 PC's is this one, and thats running XP SP2 IE7.

I have tried 5 different PC's and even phoned a mate to try from his place same thing - the site hangs on adserver.adtech.de what ever that is - pages are taking upto 5 minutes to load if at all.

Just phoned another person I know 7.35pm and they have tried it - same thing - so its not the PC's here or my Internet connection. Any other site loads within a second or two.

I've attached the error message - IE comes up - Loaded but with errors.

The site appears to be the Norton of help forums. :(
wainuitech (129)
741582 2009-01-28 07:05:00 Wainui: They've changed the ads again - adtech.de appears to be the one causing the slowdowns. Blocking this server or disabling javascript both work to restore the site to its former speediness. Erayd (23)
741583 2009-01-28 07:10:00 Thanks mate - dont know who did what - but all of a sudden every thing has come back up to speed since I posted - currently now 8.08 and the site loaded in a flash. Cheers.

Edited: in the past I haven't minded the ads, but blimey no other forum or site I go to that has ads has these kind of problems, why does PF1 always cause hassles with many problems and slowdowns.
wainuitech (129)
741584 2009-01-28 19:14:00 Just get Adblock Plus. :D pcuser42 (130)
741585 2009-01-28 19:22:00 Yeah just have last night - mainly use IE Pro and FF, engaged the ad blocks so now its a lot better.

Still a little puzzled though - lots of sites have ads, some even more than here, yet they all load up fine and in a reasonable time - no other site I have been to does the ads actually bring the pages to a screaming halt - for a Computer Web site thats really shocking.
wainuitech (129)
741586 2009-01-29 10:11:00 Whoa!! Mail server is back - just got about 50 emails, all with a time stamp of 10:51!!

Well done to the techies!!
johcar (6283)
741587 2009-01-29 13:34:00 What a weird time for it to "come back up"? I notice their ns1 dns server is still down too ...

I havent got any alert emails yet myself, wonder why?
Chilling_Silence (9)
741588 2009-01-29 19:16:00 gpriceshop02: :spam Go away. pcuser42 (130)
741589 2009-01-31 05:32:00 Very slow......and getting slower !
Mind you my broadband speed has dropped from just over 4100 kbps to 3482 kbps :D
Misty :(
Misty (368)
741590 2009-02-02 07:37:00 Yes no other site I know of has so many ads

I don't mind a few, but its almost as if PCWorld is paying someone to come up with new places to put ads.
Digby (677)
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