SLOW

[RIVERRAT]

Why are things so slow here at the T-House?
Been that way for me on 3 different puters. Seems to have been this way for a while.

[MasterBlaster]

Rocky has put a spell on you.

[Jonseredbred]

Slow and no access for a while. Wassup?

[MasterBlaster]

Ipowerweb sent me an email awhile back stating that there were making some massive changes to the server and it was gonna be friggin up now and again. I'm supposed to get another email when they change me over.

If it gets bad I'm gonna have to make that move again.

[Frans]

Defered gratification. Sure is slow today tho.
My game plan seems to be to post, then go and do something else and come back

[Thor's Hammer]

Way slow over the pond too. A lot of the time the pages are just timing out for me.

[rumination]

Slow over here too, but I thought maybe that was just because I'm in Hong Kong.

[MasterBlaster]

How the language learning going?

[rumination]

Slow. Cantonese is incredibly difficult. However, I have learned to say tree climbing, rope, lanyard, handsaw, "stand clear!", etc. My goal is to be able to order dim sum in a restaurant, but I'm ways off from that still.

[MasterBlaster]

You probably should force yourself to take a dedicated class. How long do you plan on staying there?

And also, is there stills Ricky's or Pinky's tattoo parlor there?

[rumination]

Yeah I've been thinking about the classes. They aren't cheap and they are very time consuming. I've also been advised by several people that if I am going to take classes I would be better off in the long run learning Mandarin instead of Cantonese.

My contract goes through April 1. If things go well I will renew. If not, then I'll be making a new plan.

I don't know about the tattoo parlors. I'll ask around. Do you remember where they were?

[MasterBlaster]

Hell no, that was 35 years ago. Check the yellow (ha!) pages.

[Stumper]

Velly srow hele arso.

[MasterBlaster]

I think the hole internets is dragging ass tonight.

[top hopper]

Its moving fairly well for me tonight. It has been much slower in days past, but still not near as fast as any other site I visit.

Hopefully the server renovating you've mentioned will fix the problem once and for all.

[Skwerl]

It's a series of tubes, you know. :P

Oh, and whatever the folks were doing on your server, Butch, I think they are done for the evening. Speeds are back to normal again (for now).

[top hopper]

Ill give it a go Brian, but I dont know if it'll make any difference that Im on a laptop via wifi

[top hopper]

I guess I cant help at the moment, the site says I need flash player 7....
I already have it installed but the site doesnt recognize that I do.

[Frans]

Back to blazing speed for me tonight

[pantheraba]

Hell no, that was 35 years ago. Check the yellow (ha!) pages.

I can't let that line go unpunished...."yellow pages"!!!

You round eye makee good jokee. :lol:

[MasterBlaster]

I was wondering if anyone was gonna catch that!

[Al Smith]

This site has been slow for about a week.If I'm on one of the other V-Bulliton sites it often takes forever to switch for some reason or another.:?

[Bodean]

This has been a pretty darn slow night with SUPER

LAG.

Just informing.

[Frans]

so slow tonight (again) I am outta here. Take care y'all.

[RIVERRAT]

It's getting bad

[FJR]

I can't let that line go unpunished...."yellow pages"!!!

You round eye makee good jokee. :lol:

LOL nothing like making me laugh with a cup of coffee in my hand thats now on my pants!

[Magnus]

It is really slow and takes about 0,5 minut to load the reply box alone...

[GASoline71]

...And also, is there stills Ricky's or Pinky's tattoo parlor there?


I don't know about the tattoo parlors. I'll ask around. Do you remember where they were?

It's "Ricky's". Should be over in Kowloon... located between 2 strip clubs.

Not that I would know or anything... :/: ;)

Gary

[MasterBlaster]

Ricky and Pinky were brothers. I guess Pinky kicked the bucket first, but no way Ricky is still alive I imagine. He was an old man in '77. I bet it's his kin maintaining the place.

[GASoline71]

It was on the list of places that we were not supposed to go in... but that list never stopped "real" sailors...

LMAO...:lol:

Gary

[top hopper]

Damn!!


Is it me or is the forum extra slow tonight?

Geez, this is getting old!

[MasterBlaster]

I called Ipowerweb when the TH was down earlier. I waited on the phone for 20 minutes for the tech to answer, and sure enough 2 minutes before he picked up the phone, the TH came back online. And again, sure enough, he told me he couldn't do anything if nothing was happening.

He DID tell me to keep calling whenever that happened and eventually he'll be able to see... maybe. I told him I thought the forum was under a DOS attack. So, I have him on speeddial and they're open 24/7.

[Jonseredbred]

Its frustrating. I can barely read post's without screaming it is so freakin slow.

[TC3]

Slow .... as in WORK ??? I bid a $120 for this Monday, and I'm glad for it.
Slow is when your work drops off & you're glad to make rent.

[rumination]

It comes and goes for me. Right now it's actually zipping along just fine.

[Frans]

Waaaaaay slow again

"Posting quick reply" Yea, right.

The slowness of the TreeHouse is ongoing, intermittent, and continous with few breaks. Does that make sense?
The other web sites I visit dont do this.

It is truly a real problem with this web site.

[rumination]

It comes and goes for me. Right now it's actually zipping along just fine.


I shouldn't have opened my big mouth. It's dragging again.

[Rotax Robert]

back and forth for me

[Chisel Tooth]

Like being in the military again hurry up and wait. Back and forth here .
See Ya
Mike

[Paul B]

seems fine now. FWIW.

[Chisel Tooth]

Eveything OK this morning, like greased lighting.
See Ya
Mike

[MasterBlaster]

It's been speeding along for three days now, for me.

How is it for everyone else? :drink:

Do I need to slap a bitch?

[Skwerl]

The dogginess is less frequent, but I'm still getting hit once in a while. Maybe 7-8 times today when it froze for over a minute. By now i'm used to it and have a second tab ready for surfing other sites while waiting for the TH pages to load. I can usually catch up on 3 threads on another forum in the time it takes the TH site to 'unfreeze'.

At least for now it's only a temporary delay, not lasting for hours like before.

[rumination]

Like Brian said, still a bit slow on occasion, but much improved from a few days ago.

[MasterBlaster]

Maybe 7-8 times today when it froze for over a minute.


Nothing close to that on my end. It's running flawless.

[Skwerl]

Cool. I guess that means the problem no longer exists. ;)

[MasterBlaster]

Crikey, I hope so mate!

[Frans]

The dogginess is less frequent, but I'm still getting hit once in a while. Maybe 7-8 times today when it froze for over a minute.

Once in a while, Skwerl? 7-8 times in one day? Try logging on LESS :P

[MasterBlaster]

I never "log-out." :/:

[Frans]

I never "log-out." :/:

Is sqwerl 'logging out' ?

The only time I do that is when I re-set/clear cookies. Then I have to look up the password stuff.

Does clearing cookies increase your computer speed?

[High Scale]

Is sqwerl 'logging out' ?

The only time I do that is when I re-set/clear cookies. Then I have to look up the password stuff.

Does clearing cookies increase your computer speed?


Yes and no.

[MasterBlaster]

More like no.

[Frans]

slow again sunday morning

[MasterBlaster]

Still fine here.

[Frans]

maybe its geographical

[High Scale]

Cookies clutter up your hard drive, clearing them will help to improve your hard drives efficiency but cookies are also helpful if you log onto the same sites all the time as they can store your personal preferences for that particular site thus speeding up your log in times.

[sotc]

like above, some times real slow, usually ok

[rumination]

It's gone back to being super duper slow.

[vharrison]

SUPER DUPER SLOW

[FJR]

Only took me 5 minutes to load the page this morning!! AHH

[rumination]

And all of a sudden it's fast again. Hmmm...

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Slow as a 3 legged asmathic tortoise carrying heavy shopping......

[MasterBlaster]

This is the 5th day it's been flying for me! I'm gonna change to another server soon, though.

[Al Smith]

Often times it just will not connect.Then others it will not allow you to get past about the first page of a thread.If this post goes through ,I have been trying for an hour or so to get on.

[Frans]

They say the internet is equal. But I wonder if some sites have a higher priority rating programmed into the servers.

It seems this like this site comes and goes. For each part of the country, it works differently.
For example Al is in Northern Ohio, and his last post says it is slow, but at the same time, mine was fast.
Then another day mine will be slow but others are fast.

Strange

[MasterBlaster]

And don't forget! I've told ya'll, Ipowerweb is moving their hosting server all during last month and this month. I'm hoping THAT is what all the drag assing is all about.

[squisher]

I hope so, I've not been bitching nearly as bad as Brian :P . But it definetly comes and goes, but like I've said half the time I'm not sure if it's my connection or the server or whatever!

[Burnham]

On a different note, but perhaps related...Butch, what's up with the icons indicating thread status??? They used to indicate read and unread, and if I had posted to that thread or not. Now it's all a mishmash with no way for me to figure out the code.

Or am I just off the res here?

[MasterBlaster]

I haven't noticed that, I always hit the post thing up at the top right hand side of the page.

[squisher]

I search that way too Butch by number of unread posts: , but it used to be really clear to decipher if you had posted in a thread or not and if there were new posts in that thread or not now it's a weird code that I'm yet to figure out. It changed a little while back now, and there's all these weird little envelope type codes as well as some circle ones, I dunno I figured I musta just woke up dumber one day :|:

[Burnham]

Same here, Justin...

[MasterBlaster]

I've never even looked at that stuff. I'm still not sure I understand what ya'll are on about.

[Skwerl]

There's two different icon styles that are being used, God only knows how the software decides which style to use on each thread.

You folks know the circle ones, they have been here at the TH for a long time.

The envelope ones are the 'old' vBulletin standard. Open envelope means unread posts, closed envelope means you've read it. An arrow overlayed on the envelope means you've posted in it.

[Burnham]

Thanks, Brian, for the interp. Wonder why the two styles are intermixed now?

Butch, you have to see them...they are the icons to the left of the thread titles.

[Lucifer]

seems fast now

[MasterBlaster]

I see them, I just never use them. Every forum has some odd icons over there, for the most part I ignore them.

[Burnham]

Well, I used to get information from them, but no more.

[sotc]

slow

[top hopper]

Ben fairly quick tonight for me, had a couple of hang ups but not every link that I click like lately.

[MasterBlaster]

We should also probably click the Google links to make sure they're still working. :/:

[sotc]

now quick

[top hopper]

Ha- I aint clicked one yet.

[sotc]

just hit wesspur

[squisher]

Ha- I aint clicked one yet.

You abstainer you ;)

[top hopper]

Ha!

Good one, well I may just break down and.......





















click one.

[squisher]

Don't hold back click two or three a day like me. :D :D

[MasterBlaster]

Ha- I aint clicked one yet.


:(

[RIVERRAT]

I clicked on one last night that claimed to be giving away a climbing tree stand for hunting. It was a nice one. You only had to fill out this INSANE,HEMROID of a survey to get it.

Best as I can tell it was just an evil trick to get your personal info so others could try & sell you their crap. I recieved phone calls all day on my cell from that survey.:X :banghead: :banghead: :X

[Skwerl]

ummm, Jeff....
Why do you think companies use surveys (and giveaways)? :?

hint: It's so they can get your contact information and advertise to you!

[sotc]

my subdominating thread says old monkey made the 29th and last post. theres 30 posts and 29 is tc3 and 30 is tree looker ant the thread wont clear after i look at it :wth:

[MasterBlaster]

I notice that happens sometimes - I can't get to the second page.

[sotc]

i had a bunch of threads like that last night but i though that was cause i hadnt read them for a few days. but i cleared all that last night

[squisher]

Happens to me too, sometimes I'll post like a question mark or something and it seems to sort it out and then I'll delete my post. That's if the curiosity is killing me.:D

[Skwerl]

damn site is almost unbearable tonight. 8-10 pages in a row will load just fine and then it's as if somebody unplugged my cable connection. Right now I have three different tabs open on the TH, all waiting for different pages to load. Then when I give up and go away for 15 minutes it will usually work when I come back (until it happens again!) :X

[Paul B]

high and dry for me tonight. working finely.

[MasterBlaster]

I think aliens are aiming something at Brian. You probably outta move, and fool em!

[Chisel Tooth]

It's like what Brian said, fast as hell, then slow.:whine:
See Ya
Mike

[Magnus]

Speed is OK today so I will take some time and read up!
:)

[Skwerl]

Butch, the forum has not healed itself. You have some unaddressed issues with the forum software and it won't ever fix itself. How many more months shall we expect these problems?

[MasterBlaster]

A few more, I imagine.

[sotc]

this is my second attempt to post how slow it is tonight

[MasterBlaster]

It's dragging a 'lil here, too.

[Skwerl]

Funny, when it's just dragging a little bit (15-20 seconds per page) you seem to always say that the site is 'flying'. When it drags to the point of pages timing out after 90 second freeze ups, you say "It's dragging a little".
:roll:

[Paul B]

fine for me at the mo.

[MasterBlaster]

Funny, when it's just dragging a little bit (15-20 seconds per page) you seem to always say that the site is 'flying'. When it drags to the point of pages timing out after 90 second freeze ups, you say "It's dragging a little".
:roll:


Please do keep bitching. Thank you, Barry Mush.

[GASoline71]

Been fine for me all night yo!

The server must hate Squoils... :lol:

Gary

[Frans]

Not bitching but.................



F'ing sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooow tonight.
I am too old to sit and wait to check out the beer bottle christmas tree or to read all those worthy posts.

See ya tomorrow folks!

[MasterBlaster]

Flying for me, as usual. I'm gonna give em until the end of the month while their upgrades n shit gets done.

[squisher]

I think it was Frans fault, as soon as he left it sped right up?:P

[Rotax Robert]

Personaly I think it has more to do with converting the std info over to metric, that always throws a wrench into things.

[sotc]

was real slow here earlier but ok now

[MasterBlaster]

Well how has the forum been for ya'll this week? It's been flying for me, no errors at all.

Maybe Ipowerweb is finished friggin around?

[RIVERRAT]

It was slow on & off this morning. Other than that it's been smooth.

[squisher]

It's been good for me

[sotc]

yeah i actually forgot about the slowness

[Frans]

The past week the TH has been flying along. Maybe it all got fixed

[Chisel Tooth]

Same here it's doing great!
See Ya
Mike

[Paul B]

been pretty good, still having the odd problem upping pics tho. :(

[Burnham]

been pretty good, still having the odd problem upping pics tho. :(

Same here, and still occasional lags, not too bad, better overall for sure.

[Frans]

dragging a bit, but overall nothing to actually complain about.

HEY SKWERL! Have any better experiences with the site lately?

[GASoline71]

been pretty good, still having the odd problem upping pics tho. :(

Same here for me too...

i can still only load one pic at a time...

Gary

[MasterBlaster]

I wonder WTF that is?

[GASoline71]

I'm not sure... it might be my PC... and that I still have to use dial up. However... even if I use the computers at work (which are lightning fast)... it still only loads one pic at a time...

If I load more than one, it "times out" and I get and error message in the picture loading popup window thingy. Weird:|:

Gary

[MasterBlaster]

You're on dial up?

Sorry...

[GASoline71]

Yup... no High Speed out in the sticks yet... :(

Gary

[Rotax Robert]

Yup... no High Speed out in the sticks yet... :(

Gary

You can't read or write that fast anyway, we'll just type slower for you. :P

[Paul B]

I have had ADSL for years, since the new forum update, attachments are hit and miss at best :( oh well. not like I do exciting things anyways eh? leave the crazy canadian tre work to others, like squishy the ploughboy. ;)

[squisher]

:/: t-minus 50 days!