I am an avid reader. That’s good, because with the most recent forum upgrade change, I have a lot of time to read. For example, when I go to open a thread, or click to get to the last page of a thread, I have enough time to read a page in a book before it loads. [|(]
Is there something I can change on my computer settings- eat some cookies, smash some adobe pots, etc…- that would change this, is this just the cost of progress? [
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It is going well for me, Norris. I wonder if it isn’t either a server issue near you or your web browser.
FWIW, I don’t care much for this new platform. My “New Messages” link shows red all the time, but while the indicator when I look says I have 700+ unread messages, they’re all clear and showing as read. Backpages get hung with a ‘need to refresh/resend data’ because the webpage has expired, to which I must click ‘yes’. GRRRRRrrrrr…!!!
What version of operating system are you using?
What Browser are you using?
What type of connection to the Internet?
What Anti-Malware are you using?
When you say, “enough time to read a page in a book”, just how long is that? 5 seconds? 60 seconds? (I have been known to take 10 minutes to read a page in some books!) Does the pause length vary based on how long the page is that is loading, or does it take the same length of time whether it is just one entry or 15 replies? Is it only photo laden postings that take a long time to load?
Does it pause before it clears the previous window or does it clear the window to white space and then pause? Or does the page partially load and then hang?
Do you detect that “something” seems to be missing from the page after it is loaded? (As evidenced by a blank panel on the page someplace or an area with a red “X” in the upper left corner of the area.)
The cause of the slowness MAYBE can be narrowed down if we know some of that info.
I get this, too. Upload speed is about the same as before; this is one site on which I use Mozilla. I haven’t tried it on Safari since the changeover…I’d changed to Mozilla Firefox because of issues between my previous computer and the Forums about two or three incarnations ago.
On Google Chrome…yes, that of the evilzzz empire…I have a pretty fast download of the pages.
My guess might be to check out some things you might have running in the background as well as clearing out the cookies, history and such…
I’m writing this at my AFHT on my laptop. The laptop being newer and more up to date, opens up the Trains site quicker than my home computer. Before the change, my home computer was as fast as my laptop. The only times it wasn’t was when there were “issues” that were affecting everyone.
I’ve noticed at home, it seems to be those added links (facebook, twitter, etc) opening up that are slowing it down. I have the same problem (actually worse) on news media sites like local TV and newspapers.
[#offtopic]Now, can anyone tell me why my cellphone has trouble calling my home (landline) phone, but not my wife’s cellphone when she’s at home? It started about six months ago, about the time a Menard’s opened up next to the motel. It only has problems out here and then only under certain conditions. I’m sure it’s electrical interference (those conditions), but why only calling the land line but not the cellphone? Since the trouble is out here (don’t have trouble elsewhere that I’ve noticed) shouldn’t both be affected? Yes, the phone is a dinosaur too.
Jeff
I have no idea what AFHT means. I tried to google it and got nowhere. I GUESS that it means you mean Away From Home Telephone. My guess is that you are using a faster internet connection that way rather than using your home system.
As for calling your wife’s cell phone being better than the house phone… that is like saying your car runs fine on gasoline but your bicycle chain is broken. They are both modes of transportation, but car fuel and bicycle chains are not comparable.
You wife’s cell phone receives its signal via RADIO, broadcast at Cell phone frequencies and the house phone gets its signel via WIRES. Even if the home phone is a portable one that uses radio to get the signal from the house base unit to the handheld unit the radio signal is on DIFFERENT (probably lower) frequencies.
It is possible that the new store is using some sort of radio signal that is interfering with your home phone radio signal. Or their phone system is hogging all the bandwidth of the shared set of wires from them and you to the telephone office… Which would also possibly explain why your internet connection at home is slower than using the cell phone to access the internet (again, TOTALLY DIFFERENT methods of doing the same thing).
Contact your phone company to see if they know if their equipment has reached its limit of simultaneous users. Contact a Radio engineer to come measure signal strengths at your house to see if there is something interfering with your portable phone at home (assumming you are using one) or if there are other stray signals that are causing a problem.
WAY BACK in the very early days of using phones and modems to connect computers to each other I had a modem that I used to contact the computers I had in my lab at work. I installed a 2nd phone line just to service that system (and give my wife yet another phone to yak on when I wasn’t there). If the house phone placed the call, we
Why is it that when we want to read the latest page in a multi-page thread, we have to go to the first pae before getting to the latest page–and when we are through wtih that thread, we have to go back to the first page before we can leave the thread?
Also, how can I ask for emails frm a particular thread without having to post a response?
You can go to the very last post of a thread by clicking the “Latest Post” link just to the right of the subject line on the forum 1st page. You may have to scroll up (or even revert to the previous page if there were more than one post since the last time you read the thread), but at least it gets you to the end of the list of replies and is only a problem once every 15 replies where you would have to back up one page to check to see if you missed the 14th or 29th or 44th… etc. post.
Some forae keep track of which reply you have seen and has a link to get you to the 1st one that you have not yet seen… I wish this forum had the same feature.
I am not sure of the following, but it may be something to investigate… on the right side of the forum page is a small area that has your User Name and Avatar at the top and 10 links below it… 2 are directly below your name and the others are in two columns with icons. Take a look at the “Email Notifications” section. I think that is where you can turn the notifications on and off for any thread… maybe even a whole forum all at once.
Same for me; I use Chrome and have no issues with page speed. I also use Ad Blocker and Trend Micro protection.
It depends on the cmputer, but you might have to disable some options/features to increase the browsers speed or better yet, the computers.
I am using IE-9 and having no problem with download speed.
There are DOZENS of things that can cause a PC to run slow.
Maybe the ISP is throttling download speeds because you have used your allocated highspeed data for the month. Or maybe they are having trouble with their connection to the rest of the world.
Hardware can have problems too. From a partially malfunctioning device to just a bad connection inducing noise in the signal that makes the modem request data packets to be resent. (Resending the data slows things down… resending a lot can be a pain!)
In your computer there could be problems with the hardware or the software. The hardware can have the same kinds of signal decoding problems as the modem, or there could be a bad sector/track on the harddrive that causes data to need to be re-read multiple times before it is read without error.
Maybe there is a bad RAM stick and the OS is running in less memory and having to swap programs in and out of memory to keep it all going (and that swapping takes LOTS of time).
There could be a program that is running and taking all the CPU time such that little is left to do the things the user is expecting. That program could be just having a problem or it could be a nasty piece of malware that is deliberately causing problems (malware). The program might be something that you really want to be running (such as anti-malware) or something added by the dealer/manufacturer as “bloat ware” because they think you just gotta have their “pet” program. I have seen computers run slow because there are programs running that are trying to access hardware that no longer exists (old printers, scanners, etc.)
The browser can have add-ons that are taking time from the computer. Some add-ons come with the Browser (again added because someone is getting paid to load the computer down with programs that you MIGHT need or POSSIBLY want).
Semper Vap:
Jeff’s an engineer…AFHT is his away-from-home terminal, a run distant from Boone (Fremont? Clinton?).
AFHT currently is Fremont, lodging at the Oak Tree. I’m sure the problem with the cell phone is radio interference. I’ve noticed the problems happen when I have my lap top on and the wifi activated and/or when my room is in the south end of the motel, especially when on the third floor. That’s right next to the Menards and the trouble began about the time it opened. I’m guessing Menards has some kind of communication system with their yard workers. What happens is when I call my land line, the call seems to get redirected. I’ve gotten some kind of voice mail or some number that either just keeps ringing (I have an answering machine that picks up after 4 rings, plus the rings sound different) or rings then connects to a different phone. Kind of like it’s cascading through a series of phones. If I do happen to get through, we have a bad connection. One other place, in the Fremont area, is when in the crew van being transported to the motel. They have been installing cameras in them and those with the cameras also seem to cause interference.
If I call my wife’s cell phone under the same situations (wifi,location,etc), it goes right through with no problems. There’s never been a problem for her to call me, and that’s usually cell phone to cell phone. That’s what gets me. I would think me initiating (or receiving) a call, to either number would be equally disrupted since the trouble seems to be on the Fremont end. (I don’t have the same trouble when I’ve stayed at Mason City or Clinton, even with the computer fired up.) But it dosen’t. The call to the land line has problems connecting, the call to the cell phone doesn’t.
Jeff
Norris,
Maybe you’re not holding your tongue right…try the left side and see if that helps.
First- thanks for the help. I’ve been playing with the advice you had in the other post. I don’t know if it’s getting me anywhere, but it’s worth a try.
Concerning your questions from this post- consider that I’m a computer dummy, so my answers might reflect that.
I’m using IE-9, Mozilla firefox, broadband, (from Midco- the local crappiest provider). I have Norton anti-virus, and a malware something or other my college age son put on some time back.
I’ve played around with different scenarios, and come up with this. The normal hang time is in the 4 to 9 second range. That’s about the same time
I finally entered my messages and kept going back, almost 20 pages before I ran into the long run of messages marked unread. They start in 2010. According to my counter, there were over 700, and I was darned if I was going to take the time to open and close them all to neutralize them. So, I emailed Customer Services and explained my findings, asking if their IT guys could close them for me. A reply just this morning said they would delete all but the ones for 2012 if that met with my agreement. I said yes, and six hours later, presto…the link is now greyed.
Crandell
The only place I experience EXTREMELY slow is when it is sorting the list of recent posts not read. The rest of the time the speed is fine.