PF Speed: Is My Newer PC the Problem?

[Andre]

PF Speed??

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?

 

[quantumdude]

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]

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?

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.