Slow or what?

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:24 pm

Anyone else experiencing a painfully slow forum today? Other sites are quick so it isn't my connection... in my opinion things have slowed up a bit since sponsorship.... but I guess that's a small price to pay... but today it's bad.

mountainmanUK · Post by **mountainmanUK** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:50 pm

Yep...I'm suffering the same Forum "lag" Philip!

Only apparent on this site.
Having said that, it isn't always as slow.....seems to speed up to 'normal' at times.

Stewart (oily!) · Post by **Stewart (oily!)** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:49 pm

Mines running in glue as per normal, not sure whether its bloody talktalk again or the plethora of security scans that seem to be running all the time nowadays. Mountainman, I have a Xantia TD which is rumbling at the front end, do you want rid of those driveshafts?
Stewart

mountainmanUK · Post by **mountainmanUK** » Fri May 11, 2007 4:39 pm

Stewart!

PM sent!

Post by **docchevron** » Sat May 12, 2007 3:23 am

Yep, it's been painfully slow for a while, even on 8meg broadband...

Barnsley BXer · Post by **Barnsley BXer** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:19 am

Slow this morning too,but no problems yesterday

Oscar · Post by **Oscar** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:19 pm

I've noticed a distinct slowdown since the ecar banners went up. Wonder why?

Stewart (oily!) · Post by **Stewart (oily!)** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:41 pm

Partially sorted mine, spyware doctor was running weekly scans on monday, tuesday, wednesday etc

as default setting too! and I have switched my browser to view cached images rather than downloading em every time.
Stewart

Post by **docchevron** » Sat May 12, 2007 2:14 pm

I've just discovered that if I run IE 6 everything runs fine, it's only slow on IE7.... Cant work out why though....

Post by **docchevron** » Sat May 12, 2007 9:24 pm

Well said! Alas it was defo IE for me! IE7 wont even let me look in my inbox now! But IE6 is working just fine, maybe I need a new computer.... Either that or I need to delete some porn?!

Alas I renewed my car insurance about 3 weeks before the Ecar banners went up, so I'm stuck with my present insurers for now...

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Sat May 12, 2007 9:55 pm

I find IE 7 (and 6 before it) much slower than Firefox but some sites will only display properly or work properly with IE.

What I have noticed over the last few days is a recurrence of the sign in requirement especially on Frenchcarforum but sometimes on here. Slightly annoying but nothing to get excited about.

Post by **docchevron** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:02 pm

Ok, for those of us (well me!) that know naff all about Firefox, what is it? Where can I get it? and, is it easy to use?

They may seem like dumb questions, but I've aleways used IE since I'm a slave to Microsoft, but if I can get something thats quicker than this I'm all for it!

Ta!

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:15 pm

I use Firefox and it's good. But it doesn't matter what you use if the host server is slow.

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:49 pm

Firefox is free on download:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/