PA site seems very slow ?
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Topic: PA site seems very slow ?
Posted By: crimson thing
Subject: PA site seems very slow ?
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 09:58
| As of last night (31st May) loading of pages & posting on this site seems to have become very slow & often freezes. I don't seem to have thisproblem on other sites & have run all my antivirus & spyware programs. The problem is still apparent this morning (1st June). Is anyone else experiencing problems? |
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 10:03
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I thought it was just me!!!...........or indeed just my old workhorse of an office 'puter!
I plugged in the lappie and had the same trouble, it is just plain slow and buggy right now...........it freezes and jams up, ............maybe its just us? P-C |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 10:08
| It happened to me yesterday, but there's nothing wrong now. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 13:55
| I've asked mailto:M@x - M@x to check it out. Anyone else finding it slow? |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 13:56
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Very slow.
Also it takes ages to load the BIO pages too. |
Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 16:17
Worst bit seems to be loading the home (index) page.........but other sites (non-PA, incl other forums) seem ok.........Of course it's always worth waiting for, don't get me wrong 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 18:56
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I used to have this problem occasionally,but everything is running nice and fast right now. -------------  |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 19:09
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I had this problem about an hour ago - very very slow it was!! Now seems to be OK.
Oh, by the way, where has "abuse" thread disappeared? - used to make interesting night time reading lately...
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 19:12
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Nothing unusual here. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 03:52
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mailto:M@x - M@x has checked things out, and says no problems at his end. I wonder if it was some sort of transatlantic issue.
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 04:00
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Thanks for checking it out........
but wouldn't you know...........I find things all back to normal this morning! 
P-C |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 07:03
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I had the same issues as well. Index page loaded fine, but The Velvet Room was very slow loading! It's all good again now, I'm happy! I have enough problems anyhow (which are ISP related) whereby when I click to post my message, it comes to a complete halt... -------------   
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 07:10
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I had problems with a few sites yesterday,including the BBC.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 07:18
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Which ISP are you using Tony? I find Tiscali very hit and miss. They did some maintenance the other week and posted it on the Tiscali website. My whole Internet went down and I was lucky enough to be able to get online for about 10 minutes to check the Tiscali website. Then it died again. But I had to change my DNS settings again, it's very frustrating! Tony, you seem to be playing similar stuff to Jody! -------------
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 07:31
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NTL - I havent had too many problems with them to be honest,just dont ring customer services.....
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 07:46
I find customer services much improved these days, no longer the 30 min wait. Yesterday, after the press this button if you want to stuff, I got through instantly! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Tony R wrote:Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 07:50
Yes-to a call centre in India. Try getting an answer to a specific question! Me:"Hi.I'd just like to know if there any problems affecting the connection in the Bolton area" NTL:" what operating system are you using?" 10 mins later Me:" Please I just want to know if there any problems affecting...etc...... 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 08:03
Bolton have electricity? 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 08:34
Let's face it, noone in India would know where Bolton was, I'm not sure myself.
NTL technical services aren't too bad, they sorted out my connection problems on my new PC (mind you, they were caused by their installation program not working on XP in the first place). The only problem is they have to assume everyone is a technical idiot so they tell you things like "click on Start and Run then type C for Charlie, M for Mother and D for Dog".
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 08:35
| Oh, btw Tony, NTL have a web site that shows the status of any current service problems. I don't have the URL here but if you want it, pm me and I'll send it to you when I get home. |
Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 08:46
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Seems ok again today (Friday 2nd June) - so thanx - even if nothings happened!
For those looking for patterns, i'm also on Tiscali broadband, but had no probs with other sites & I find it generally a decent service..........
Thanx again to the webmster , for running a generally excellent site
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 02 2006 at 14:24
| It seems to have just been UK members who had the problems over the last couple of days. |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 12:08
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I live in South West Wales, and have a Broadband Internet connection at home , ISP is BT Broadband, It is sometimes slow with me as well, not always, others wise and most of the time very good speed connection. It's sometimes slow in College as well, but now seems to be good. I reckon a lot of broadband users use the net the same time and this I believe slows it down.  ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 14:27
| I haven't noticed any problems from home lately. It's slow at work but that's probably down to our rubbish company Internet connection which we've proven to be slower than a dial-up connection. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 14:29
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The discography pages are loading slowly for me.In fact sometimes I have to refresh the page just to get them to load fully...
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 17:05
| Things are back to normal for me. Does it help if you switch off the sleeve images Tony? |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 07:38
It's odd,the page produces the band list header and the purple background then just "hangs".Bearing in mind I have a 10 meg connection its not a loading issue. I'm wondering if IE7 is trying to validate every link on the page as part of its in-built "anti-phishing" defences...
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Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 10:10
That's exactly what it did when I first posted on this issue..........but now (touch wood) it's been ok for days........... ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS 
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