Broadband .... local problem

[kidnapped]

Have recently upgraded to Broadband .... thought I would be able to access all the wonderful nuggets of wisdom on S/butt a lightening speed ..... wrong!! this site is [possibly] even slower than before .... S/Butt page appears v. quickly, but your words of wisdom can take another 45 >> 65secs to appear.
What am I doing wrong? I only ask for 'last two weeks' so I don't think it's overload ... any ideas?

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[Colin_S]

This forum is just very slow. Have a little trawl about and you'll see there are plans afoot to improve it.
I got broadband too and the forum list just took about 1 min to load up..................

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[deborahann]

Joined broadband a few weeks ago. The confuser has hardly worked since. The BT mans coming round Tuesday after trying to sort it for weeks and weeks. And you think you've got problems!!

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[Forbsie]

Is it not still the GPO up there? /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[PaulR]

I have a broadband connection which according to the icon at the bottom of my screen is connected at 2272kbps-sounds good but the other icon (picture of 2 pc's with a wire connecting them) says so many bytes sent and received at 64000bps, by my reckoning the latter is 1/35th of the former which doesn't sound terribly fast, my IT colleague claims that the speed is limited by the speed of my pc and the speed/capacity of the site I am accessing and that the connection capability is fast (ie the 2272kbps) but the other pc and mine are slowing it down, not being techy (well not about PC's etc anyhow) does this sound realistic?

certainly my sons (14 +12) are convinced my home pc runs on steam and needs replacing but I suspect they have ulterior motives as for home none games use it seems fine!

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[kimhollamby]

Several potential reasons

I've had a quick look at your IP and can tell you that there should be no major obstacles between your ISP and our servers, which are sat very close to the main London exchange on a major connection.

However:

a) broadband connections are contended (ie more than one user shares your bandwidth). Looking at time of post (Sunday evening) that's a potential hot spot so you might have been getting slow performance your end.

b) broadband performance also dependent on how far you are from your local exchange and the quality of the phonelines even around your house.

c) Sunday evenings also a busy time for us here. We're getting close to hitting maximum utilisation of database at peak times and it does go a bit slow at those times. You can speed it by reducing number of parent posts per page and also avoiding using expanded thread mode (50 threads in expanded thread mode will often generate pages of circa 300k or more, pretty much all of which is text). These factors can be adjusted in user options -- display prefs.

d) browsers can make a huge difference -- IE pretty sluggish as a rule. Also state of computer can make a difference.

Hope that helps a bit. I do all of my exterior monitoring via broadband (using an outfit called Vispa) on threaded mode, 50 threads per view, which often hits the same performance levels as the office when we have a direct pipe to servers. Sometimes on a PC running XP but often on a Mac running 10.2.8. Firefox is browser of choice, lightning compared to IE. Rarely see performance as poor as 45sec-60sec; usually much better but with the occasional slow down when database is hammered by loads of users and/or heavy searches.

As suggested elsewhere here, we working on upgrades right now -- traffic has quadrupled last few months so we've been struggling to keep pace with it all.

Hope that helps a bit.



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[Aeolus_IV]

Download speeds are always as slow as the weakest link (the old chain analogy). I would doubt that your PC is slowing thngs down significantly unless it is rather old. However a friends PC which was recently attached to broadband, ground to a halt. Only after applying virus software, spyware software and a personal fire wall did the machine finally get over the insessant chatter and "attacks" from the internet.

Regards, Jeff.

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[PaulS]

Sorry to say, but a horse and buggy just won't go much faster whether you're on a back country road or a four lane motorway.
Yes, the speed of your computer, and the speed of the web site computer both are significant factors in the speed of your browsing experience. Just as do all those little programs we all like to load at startup, like the Anti Virus, Firewall, Popup Blockers, Spam filters, Screen Savers and so on.
New computers are fairly cheap today and if your current one is over four yrs old it very well may be worth while looking at a new one.
Just my opinion, FWIW.

Paul

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[Colin_S]

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp>Here's</A> a link to a site where you can check the speed of your connection. Make sure you've got nothing else running that connects to the net when you do the check.

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[janie]

Connection speed

I got blackmailed into a new computer for the children - they only play games on it! However, they insist that I should use Mozilla Firefox as my browser, and it certainly does seem to speed things up on their computer.

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