Could this server be any slower?

[riccbhard]

What is it with the server for this site? It took 5 minutes to get about anywhere. My internet connection is 2.5 Megabts per second cable.

Even on my other computers, same....

[Killswitch]

I know what you mean. I have regular dial-up connection and my computer can't load any page on this site without having a huge error. It might be from all the stupid animated ads at the top of the screen. Those take a long time to process. Pretty stupid.

[SniperX13]

unfortunately, those go hand in hand. those animated ads and banners help pay for the server and the site.

its hard when your an extremely popular website.

[MBTN]

I doubt it's the ads... The page would load but the picture would just be pending, besides those pics aren't very big. It's the actual forum server.

[91300zxtt]

Good thing you werent here this time last year than. If you think the server is slow now, You would go crazy. I don't know, runs fast enough for my purposes.

[95cord]

as soon as I click on the links it goes directly to it within like 3 seconds. sometimes it takes about 30 seconds.

[Oz]

Fcuk off if it's not good enough.

[91300zxtt]

Originally Posted by Oz

Fcuk off if it's not good enough.

[v10_viper]

Originally Posted by Oz

Fcuk off if it's not good enough.

I concur. 95% of the time this site loads pages just like that for me, and if it's slow, I don't blame it on the site, it's probably my internet, being cable the signal could have gotten interrupted or something may have happened. Just because your internet's speed is fast doesn't meant it's very efficient at loading pages.

[Andydg]

It's almost always instant for me, or close to it.

[crayzayjay]

Occasionally slow but works fine for me 95% of the time.

[Jimmiz71]

About 95% of the time it takes about 2 seconds for each page to load, every now and then I get an error page.. I have to say I am Quite Satisfied for the amount of traffic this site sees.
-Jimmy

[Spyke^]

I'm here at work on dialup at a whopping connection speed of ( /me hovers cursor over icon...24.0 Kbps ) and it usually loads fine for me.

Oz, Master of the subtle arts.

[dugie6551]

Originally Posted by crayzayjay

Occasionally slow but works fine for me 95% of the time.

.... and if you don't like the speed, you can take Oz's advice or pay for more AF server space out of your pocket.

"Put up or shut up!!!"

[YogsVR4]

The sites been humming along really well know for almost the last year. I'd wager that the majority of slow downs people have nothing to do with this site. The most likely culprit is to much shit on their PC (or whatever) to their ISP being bogged down.