PF Speed??

Andre

Is it my rather new computer or?

If I frequent my usual forums everythings seems to be well, Click and there is the new page, just as it also used to be on PF.

If I click now, the computer advises me to take a break, get a coffee and so on, as you can stare at a empty gray field for many seconds. A benchmark check with another forum. Split second ready. What's wrong. Is it my computer having a great aversion for this site? Can anybody fill me in?

Tom Mattson

I'm having the same problems. At my job (where I do most of my websurfing ) we have two networks, and PF has two different speeds on them: slow and stop.

On the network I am currently goofing off on, PF is slow. On the other one, PF takes so long to load that the operation times out and I get a "Cannot find server" error.

Monique

No problems here on two different networks.

Danger

I haven't been home to try the new skin on the Mac, but everything seems okay on this work one. N/W's takes sometimes more than 2 minutes to switch pages, although that could be just a combination of a slow machine and a cable modem. The old skin on the 133MHz Mac via ADSL was about the same speed as this one is now.
I still can't get links to work properly on either of the PC's, but maybe that's because I'm not using them properly. Has the procedure changed?

Moonbear

I have intermittent issues, and it does seem to depend on the network I'm using. At home, I rarely have any problems, but when it does slow down, it's a complete crawl or I can't do anything. This started even before the new skin (but maybe after the upgrade...it's been a while). When I'm in my office, more often PF comes to a screeching halt, but then, lots of other sites seem slow to load from there too, so I can't tell what part of that is due to PF issues and what is the local network traffic.

I attempted to check from a dial-up line yesterday (I finally got access to our farm office so I can use the computer at night...along with the microwave and a warm place to set up a cot while there all night). It took forever just for the main page to load. It never used to be that slow for me when I used to use dial-up (I'd have never stuck around long if it was).

Andre

Okay got it fixed. On yet another computer, after a clear fight between the electrons, a little bar popped up to inform me that the site would problably require another active-X thinghy and it was most helpful to install right away.

As a reward, I have no more time between page loadings to fetch the coffee.

PerennialII

After the upgrade has gotten a bit slower, not really anything troubling, but noticeable anyways (at times things don't happen in a blink).

Danger

For the last couple of days, I'd just about given up trying to do anything on N/W's machine. It got so that I had to fast-click about 5 or 6 times to get it to register at all, then it took over 5 minutes to load a page, and to top it off, if I tried to respond to a thread or PM the whole system locked up beyond even the capacity of ctl/alt/del to deal with.
What weirds me out about it is that I gave her (since I just happened to have one kicking around) a new HP keyboard with wireless mouse. It's been working fine ever since. How on Earth can a keyboard and mouse affect an internet connection?

Moonbear

It doesn't. It's a coincidence. It looks like things have sped up a bit since this thread was started. I think Greg must have been listening in and realized he needed to fix something under the hood. Then again, this time of year, every year, general network slowdowns seems common.

Danger

Wow, that's some coincidence!
It was about 9:00 last night (MST). This thing was as useless as tits on a nun. I loaded the new driver disk, plugged in the keyboard, and away we went. No problems since.
I agree that one must have nothing to do with the other, but it sure is weird.
edit: Cancel that; it's starting to do it again.