Ad Blocking on this website?

Box

It may be naive of me but it seems mostly to be U.S. user who mention the slowness. Could it be that the site is hosted on European servers and the connection to the states causes the lag.

My company has a similar problem, our U.S. offices have constant problems getting consistent fast connections to our main server in Oslo, whereas I can connect to it even from my phone happily in Italy, Germany, France, Finland, the UK etc.
The IT "Professionals" that set up our system keep putting it down to the "US Bottleneck", however, if their ability to keep email accounts running consistently is anything to go by, I suspect "us" "Bottle" and "Neck" may be more what they are doing rather than what the internet is doing.

Gaieus

I don't know. Sometimes Rich also complains from Ireland (although there may be an "Ireland Bottleneck", too).

jeff hammond

@gaieus said:

Guys, I do not experience this slowness at all.

ditto.. getting acceptable service here in neus

jeff hammond

@box said:

It may be naive of me but it seems mostly to be U.S. user who mention the slowness. Could it be that the site is hosted on European servers and the connection to the states causes the lag.

or maybe that americans are surely the most impatient bunch on the planet?

Box

True Jeff, not to mention after a few seconds most of you have forgotten your own names let alone what you clicked on.

jeff hammond

^ haha!

Aerilius

I find this site – specifically the login – so slow that I'd stop using it (if I wasn't so addicted... )
Login takes more than 10 seconds until the server responds, then it takes 3-4 more seconds for a rather useless notification (does phpBB still not use ajax for stuff like that?). I've tried profiling the site in the browser and although it loads 23 stylesheets and 12 scripts files, that seems not to be the problem, at least not on client side.

Gaieus

Login can truly be slow, I have seen that myself, too occasionally. Currently it's not phpBB however that handles user and login info (as far as I am aware of the technical background) but Joomla.

solo

I clicked 'Reply' and it took 1 minute 13 seconds for the reply page to load,on the bottom left of page it showed 'David laser' displayed for 42 seconds before 'Buy sell ads' taking 11 seconds then finally Sketchucation and page loaded eventually.

I did an Internet speed check just in case and it's not on my side, all other sites load instantly, I tested this site using IE and its instant, but Chrome with AdBocker off and trackers off it's painfully slow.

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Box

Using the same chrome setup you mention and while downloading a movie and connected to my server in Oslo from my wifi connection at home in Germany, the post a reply opens instantly.

mwm5053

Well been doing some checking and these are my result from Clovis NM USA- Sheffield England. Thing is while replying to post it will be fine on sec then I'm back to waiting like Pete on Chrome it stuck on sending request.

And Pete's got some pretty fast internet there

speed test.jpg

Box

Just to show you it doesn't seem to be related to internet speed as such or my steam powered connection would be something of a problem.

solo

Obviously internet speed has nothing to do with connection speed as I see.

I'm surprised at your speed Ben, I'd always thought that Europe has superior internet speeds, I did a test on my Samsung Galaxy 3 using 4G and got decent speeds I guess (I thought it was slow)

Box

Problem for me Pete is I'm in former east Germany in a village that has only recently been able to get any sort of broadband. The infrastructure just couldn't cope with it. Although my house is only a twenty minute drive to the centre of Dresden the house next door doesn't have gas or a sewer connection. Things are changing here pretty fast but then again pretty fast is all relative.

jeff hammond

@gaieus said:

Login can truly be slow, I have seen that myself, too occasionally.

again.. ditto for me.. slow login but everything else is snappy

[and my internet speed.. though i think it's already been established that this isn't part of the problem, posting your internet speed on the internet is required at least once a year.. so now i'm good til 2014 ]

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i would think internet speeds would be better than that in nyc but i guess there are a bazillion connections happening around here which will put a damper on things..

this is the list of wifi networks i can see from my 5th floor apt in a strictly residential area.. probably gets even more congested in other parts of the city..

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