Slow forum response times

[mavss]

When I exceed my monthly cable download limit, and I'm throttled to 28.8k, I find it a real choir navigating the forums on this BBS.

Does anyone else with dial-up access has similar problems?

For example, bringing up the first page of posts on a forum can take up to 15 minutes which is pretty bad.

Cheers

[VooDoo]

thats cable for you. Keep complaining. Its actually a setting in the modem that needs to be changed by telstra but most of em dont know much about it. took me 2 mths of complaining to get anything done

[Sidewindr]

I am actually on a dialup (33.6k) as I cannot get adsl or cable in my area and it works fine for me... certainly does not take 15 mins to load the front page...

[mavss]

I forgot to mention that this is the only BBS I have this problem with.

[jneil]

Indeed it is IS very slow when you get hobbled, I am guessing Optus Cable?? Don't think it takes 15 minutes though.

I find it heaps quicker to pull out the old modem and use dialup. I have been a good boy recently and haven't used up all our 12gb (sorry for those times Bek!)....I get very close, but watch it like a hawk the last day or two.

I am very much enjoying the unlimited between 2am and 8am, soon to be not unlimited, but 24gb between 2am and 9am. Use a scheduler program to start your favourite peer-to-peer program or use emule which has it inbuilt.

Cheers,

Jeff.

[mavss]

I am actually on a dialup (33.6k) as I cannot get adsl or cable in my area and it works fine for me... certainly does not take 15 mins to load the front page...
Hmmm. Maybe it's my ISP. I'm on Optusnet.

Still. Interesting that this is the only BBS I have the problem with.

[carneb]

I've also had problems with pages from this forum taking ages to load sometimes. I haven't noticed problems with any other sites. I'm on Bigpond Cable unlimited.

[XLR8 V8]

Very strange... up until recently I used to moderate this forum on dialup - that meant opening and viewing EVERY new thread/post each time I logged on..... never had any problems with speed ..... it was actually very quick compared to other forums I visit. Now on 1500/256 DSL it loads multiple pages with ease

[Smitty]

I am on dial up...
which normally runs between 38 and 45k
tonite....49333bps which is excellent

am active on about ½dozen forums
and don't have a problem with them or this site
have posts from all running at once...
even some forums that allow direct piccie posts
(limited to 800x600 though) are no problem
and I generally run my spam killer at the same
time I am jumping from browser page to browser page

btw
I use Mozilla which is DEFINITELY faster than IE loading
if you don't have it, its free (maybe also try Firefox)

cheers