Connection Speed

[Anonymous]

For our new visitors the connection speed here is not as speedy as on the Atlas forum.
I'm DSL at 1.2 Meg and have trouble getting in the subject content so it's not your
computer if Trains is not the highballer you were accustomed too.

[Anonymous]

This site is funny.

I'm on cable and sometimes this site loads like a flash! Then a second later it can't seem to load anything and crawls to a stop.

It doesn't happen to often but it is definately annoying.

I know it's not me because I just go and browse other website while waiting for the Trains forum to load.

Oh well.

[Anonymous]

From the little I truly I know about the internet is that when a lot of people are browsing the same page loading times seems to slow down. I found that during the day, or off peak hours it loads quicker but about dinner time things start to slow down because more people are on.
Andrew Miller

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by george745

From the little I truly I know about the internet is that when a lot of people are browsing the same page loading times seems to slow down. I found that during the day, or off peak hours it loads quicker but about dinner time things start to slow down because more people are on.
Andrew Miller

Andrew [8D]

Trust me, it does the same thing at 3 or 4 am. It many times just can't even seem to find the page you want when you KNOW it is there. [:(] I am in the forums at 2 and 3 am many times and it still is slow.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

I got DSL and it still SUCKS! Ya like maby .00000000000000001% faster,Which still SUCKS.
BNSFfan.

[Anonymous]

Works fine for me. Of course, I'm on 100baseTX ethernet to multiple OC12's right now.

[Anonymous]

I complained about the speed and loading here and a number jumped on me saying how "great" it was. I knew it was only a matter of time before others would start to complain. I have a possible fix. If you look in one of the boxes at the bottom of the screen you can adjust how many days the forum will go back. By default I think it is set a year. Cut this time down to either 7 days or 5 days and you might find the forum loading faster.

[Anonymous]

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[darth9x9]

I have never had much trouble with site loading especially with multiple windows concurrently. I have double DSL - you gotta love technology.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by darth9x9

I have never had much trouble with site loading especially with multiple windows concurrently. I have double DSL - you gotta love technology.

What is double DSL or better yet what's your total megs or gigs?

[Anonymous]

I have 2 gigs, 324 meg of ram but phone line connection. This sight, in comparison to others, is the slowest I visit. I do other things, while aiting for this to load.

[Anonymous]

My DSL 1.2 meg is moody today trying to get in.Doing much better here on a T1 link.

Just bouncing off this DSL to pull up subject content is hesitant. Must be the humidity.

[Dave Farquhar]

Your connection speed is only part of the equation. If the site's connection gets saturated with connections, it's going to slow down. But the site's CPU can also get saturated. I've seen this at times on my own web site--my Internet connection might have plenty of bandwidth to spare, but my visitors are waiting for my slow CPU to catch up with their request. It took me a while to get my site into tip-top shape speedwise, and I do this for a living and had the help of an exceptionally talented programmer to boot.

Forums are especially vulnerable to this, since a busy forum generally has to juggle huge databases. That's why Rick's suggestion can help--it cuts back on the amount of data MR's server has to keep track of.

Visiting at off-peak hours helps, but remember, a lot of web surfers are night owls--prime time doesn't end at 10 PM like it does for TV. Probably 1 AM is a reasonable assumption for the end of computing prime time. But at 2 or 3 A.M. on the east coast, many people on the west coast are just getting started.

In a pinch there's one other thing you can do on your side. Try visiting with images turned off in your browser. Some threads need the images, of course, but during busy times, not transferring the images might make the difference between tolerable speed and annoyingly slow speed.

[darth9x9]

Hey locomotive3,

Double DSL is where your ISP (phone company) gives you two ports at the CO (Central Office). The DSL providers have been offering DDSL for over a year now in an attempt to compete with cable ISPs. I have never seen my speed slower than 1268 Kbps.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by darth9x9

Hey locomotive3,

Double DSL is where your ISP (phone company) gives you two ports at the CO (Central Office). The DSL providers have been offering DDSL for over a year now in an attempt to compete with cable ISPs. I have never seen my speed slower than 1268 Kbps.

Never heard it expressed that way. I have SBC and they gave me the 1.2 meg or 1247 Kbps and I still have delays after I get to the home page. It can take a minute + just to
open up a post and longer to go to page two. It just stalls out.

I don't recall any delayed openings on Atlas but Atlas is segregated into scales and Trains has a bigger offering plate of content but it's F R E E.