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Post by badsetter on Oct 24, 2002 12:06:53 GMT -5
a few of the custom icons on the left seem to be pretty large. For example, Pablo's current "Featured Panther" is over 600,000 bytes! The first time it loads will take quite a while on a dial-up connection. Other large icons may be contributing to the problem.
Lots of complaints about slowness, especially on the old 24/7 board. Maybe this is part of the problem.
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Oct 24, 2002 12:31:38 GMT -5
The board shrinks the picture you give it, but doesn't reduce the size. I have reduced the picture of MollyO to the same size manually, and now it is only 2K.
HTH
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Post by tnp101 on Oct 24, 2002 13:44:00 GMT -5
Badsetter, I guess you are right about the graphic intensive this board seems to have and it makes it very slow. I have a T1 connection at work and it takes a few seconds or sometimes more to go from one page to another (the old board takes less than a sec.) My visit here is less and less and I don't read/post as many times as before. I do like some features that the new board offers but I also miss seeing the long threads and speed of the old board and how you can just scroll through all the topics very fast.
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Post by SteelyDan on Oct 24, 2002 13:47:08 GMT -5
I have a dial-up account and working at 24K or 56K (I can't remember). I have a 56K modem but I doubt I'm going that fast. I have noticed no change in the speed from volley 24/7 to this board. Only once or twice, this board was slow but probably because of Idaho Boy's and Pablo's damn graphics!
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Oct 24, 2002 13:48:40 GMT -5
I have a dial-up account and working at 24K or 56K (I can't remember). I have a 56K modem but I doubt I'm going that fast. I have noticed no change in the speed from volley 24/7 to this board. Only once or twice, this board was slow but probably because of Idaho Boy's and Pablo's damn graphics! yeah, but they are nice looking graphics... Of course, that should not be a problem anymore for mine.
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Post by troll on Oct 24, 2002 14:03:37 GMT -5
Yeah it's slower than before. So what? Evertime I go to ESPN.com, it takes several minutes before everything is loaded up. But do I stop going? No! I like that site and I like this board. I will continue going to ESPN.com and I will continue coming to this board. I get cool features and it's an improvement over 24/7.
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Post by tnp101 on Oct 24, 2002 14:37:02 GMT -5
So I guess if a troll wants this board to be very slow, they just need to put a very large graphic file up. Then it will annoy the heck of everyone. Maybe the size of the graphics needs to be limited or something to make sure that someone with a modem dial-up like SteelyDan won't take forever to view something.
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Post by IdahoBoy on Oct 24, 2002 15:58:48 GMT -5
What kind of computer do you have? How fast is it? How much memory.
The problem with the speed of the board probably has more to do with how many memory eating programs and your computer size than your internet connection.
This board loads just as fast as 24/7 to me. Even with all the graphics etc. The code and translation is partly due to your computer. Another issue is traffic to the site. At busy times, the computer this site is hosted on is slower because there are more requests on it.
Also, I designed my graphic to fit this page, its only 89 kb which will take about <2 seconds on a 56 k modem to download. It will also be saved on your computer after that, so it won't need to be reloaded unless you tell your browser to.
If you want it to be faster, put out a few bucks and upgrade. That's the nature of computers, nothing you can do about it except for keep up, or get behind. Sorry!
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Post by wiredcoach on Oct 24, 2002 16:59:54 GMT -5
Whoa, IdahoBoy, you are pretty off base when claiming that slowness is probably due to the computer, i.e. the processing power. Any computer can process faster than a modem or even a cable modem can send data.
When communicating via a computer, the speed of the connection, not the computer, has always been the gating factor.
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Post by tnp101 on Oct 24, 2002 17:54:48 GMT -5
IdahoBoy, I have a 1 GHz pentium III with 256 RAM memory. This board is still uploaded very slow on my computer compared to the old board. The other thing is that I only see the top headline of the original thread and I don't get to see what other headlines are until I click on the thread. On the old board, I can see right away WHO is posting WHAT down the thread. That way I only go to the ones I want to read. I like that feature.
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Post by IdahoBoy on Oct 24, 2002 18:12:10 GMT -5
Let me clarify my explanation and apologize as I am not off-based. I'd be out of a job if I were. However, I thought I had typed more to that, but it is missing (or I was thinking it and didn't type it).
To help clarify, I said:
I should have clarified that there are many programs out there that automatically install themselves to your machine in such a way that it eats up memory (used to process and display information on your computer, among other things). There are also a variety of spyware programs that eat up precious bandwidth (even dial-ups have to deal with these).
To see if you have any of these programs do a few things: Download and run "Lavasoft's ad-aware" its free and available across the internet. It will search your computer for common spyware and help you remove it. Look in your taskbar (especially near your clock in the lower right corner). If you have more icons there than you know what to do with, or if you don't have any idea what they are doing there then you're wasting precious system resources likely. Get rid of them. There are a variety of ways to do so, but the best is to take the time and individually look through them to see if they REALLY need to be running. Do you really need RealAudio to be "ready" at all times? Probably not if you only use it once a month.
My apology because I omitted part of my intentional post.
I meant to include something to the effect that broadband prices are dropping across the nation and dial-up connections are becoming overpriced for what you get. I meant to suggest looking into getting a faster connection especially if you're in an urban area. The price is usually only about $100-$150 more per year, and if you can afford it, the time less spent waiting for reloading pages MORE than makes up for the price. You'll have a much more satisfying Serfing experience.
Then I went into talking about upgrading. Please forgive the omission.
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Post by not nerdy on Oct 24, 2002 18:19:27 GMT -5
I bought my computer in 1999. It has a Pentium processor. I don't know the speed but whatever the prevailing speed of those processors at the time, I got it. I also got 128 MB of RAM. It's all running on a Windows 98 OS. I have a dial up account using a 56K modem. I use Microsoft IE.
I have not noticed any difference in the speed of this site compared to 24-7. If there's a difference, it's only 1 or 2 seconds.
What's the problem?
For the guy who said he had a T1 line and still can't get the board to load faster, you have other problems than this board. I would check your computer and/or network.
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Post by Psychopotamus on Oct 26, 2002 16:27:25 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it is all of the extra scripting this board must use, especially with its registered users, logins, polls, not to mention how it also must have java tags to keep track the hundreds of IPs that must come through here. I'm running a 1.7 w/256 DDR on a cable line and it still takes 10-15 seconds for a new page to load. on the other board it was pretty much instantaneous. I'm not saying I don't like the new board but is there any way to speed it up a little?
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Post by Psychopotamus on Dec 1, 2002 1:01:56 GMT -5
Once I stopped the popups, the board still runs a little slower than the old one, but it has gotten a lot better. Apparently the popups are the biggest part of it.
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Post by Eater on Mar 21, 2003 1:26:47 GMT -5
Whoa, IdahoBoy, you are pretty off base when claiming that slowness is probably due to the computer, i.e. the processing power. Any computer can process faster than a modem or even a cable modem can send data. When communicating via a computer, the speed of the connection, not the computer, has always been the gating factor. Not true. My gf runs a celeron700 on a DSL line and there is a noticeably difference in loading times between hers and mine(1.4ghz) though our connections are basically the same. With 56k your statement would be true, but with broadband it might not.
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