[sm=WTFsgign.gif]I've tried 3 times in the last couple of hours to reply to something and it times out. If I just look it's fine. If I don't log on it's even better. I'm at work and have tried different computers, so thats not the issue.
I'm not a computer guru, but I hope that someone can archive or delete 2 year or older stuff if it will help.....Besides, if it's 2 years old the new guys won't find it searching and the older ones forgot about it anyway....

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i was thinking that same thing today. it hasn't ever timed out on me but sometimes it just sits there for a few minutes thinking or something. kinda sucks.

idk. Mine has been taking an average of like 5 min to load a page...but tonight its fast.Other computers are just as slow with the site.

Go to your settings and allow popups on this site. I am using a dial up too, and Juno-when I allow pop ups on paticular site it helps.

Mine has been running slow for a couple of weeks now, and I am on 3meg cable.

If it does not load right away, hit the stop button and click it again. If you are not running firefox, I would suggest to download it, it loads this site much faster.

+1 for Firefox.

your computer is sick from all the viruses from all the porn your looking up[sm=happybounce.gif]

Firefox and my cable modem, I always load everything in 5-15 seconds. With pictures under 30 seconds. I only use firefox and opera. Internet Explorer is crap compared to those two. Virus infested and slow.

I was having trouble with FireFox and IE7
having page loading hang ups on Dodgeforum.
This happened with FireFox on both Windows and Linux OS's.

Then by chance I found that Apple's beta of
Safari for windows
worked without hang-ups
when you set the cookies
in Preferences for 'original site' only
with no advertising cookies

My best guess is that a particular advertising cookie
is hanging up FireFox and IE7

ORIGINAL: johnjokela

your computer is sick from all the viruses from all the porn your looking up[sm=happybounce.gif]



and your point is [sm=bustedsign.gif]

I haven't seen it be a problem speed wise but everytime I come to this site it says that I'm logged out unless I click on the search tab or a tab and then it will change to logged in and work fine from there. If I click login without doing that even after typing in my password and stuff it doesn't say I'm logged in until I go to one of the other tabs then click back on the forums. Whats the deal?

I haven't had any problems with it and I run IE7, and I usually leave this page up, just minimized on the bottom of my screen for days at a time (until I reboot my computer) and it doesn't time out.

ORIGINAL: IndyRamMan

ORIGINAL: johnjokela

your computer is sick from all the viruses from all the porn your looking up[sm=happybounce.gif]



and your point is [sm=bustedsign.gif]


point is , give us some sites to look up..its a bitch when you got p2p running to down load all that porn.. and john your not the 1st person who said that to andy..[sm=innoc.gif]

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im using comcast cable and IE,a nd i dont have any site lag issues...which is why it is hard for me to talk to the tech guys about it...what ISP are you all using?

No problems here...I'm tapping into my neighbor's Wi-Fi via IE7 and it works great!!!!!

Dusty

does the neighbor know? :D

I'm on Time Warner here and the site runs slowly on and off. Does it in Firefox, IE7, and K-meleon so I don't believe it is browser related.

ha, Firefox hates this site.... much better with IE7 but I hate IE7

Just as slow with FireFox. I'm guessing it's the time it takes the moderators to read the posts and apply their censorship.

ORIGINAL: hometheaterman

I haven't seen it be a problem speed wise but everytime I come to this site it says that I'm logged out unless I click on the search tab or a tab and then it will change to logged in and work fine from there. If I click login without doing that even after typing in my password and stuff it doesn't say I'm logged in until I go to one of the other tabs then click back on the forums. Whats the deal?


Does your address bar display www.dodgeforum.com... or just dodgeforum.com...

That's the reason, if it says, www.dodgeforum.com, you'll be logged in...

Happens to me all the time...

never had that problem i run firefox and fasterfox and DF is realally fast for me and problem free

I did alot of tests. Going to other sites using the same software, some using the same servers. I used different ISPs in different parts of the country on my side (I travel alot, hotels, work, aircard, home).

I found the same issues on other sites using the same software. By software I am not referring to my PC, I am referring to the software the forum uses. I also found the same issue on different ISPs, even on different PCs (home PC and work laptop).

The problem
The site has "frames". The top frame consists of the DF banner at the top and goes all the way down to the black line all the way across the screne. The top frame would load fast. The frame below that with the data in it (the forums) would lag. This is the issue that I think most of you refer to. Other issues would be opening posts or posting lag, once again this is when you are accessing or writing data.

The solution
1. Make sure you are running a good Anti-Virus that updates every DAY! Anti-Virus is no good unless it is updated daily.
2. Make sure you have NO spyware/adware. See the Computer tech help section down at the bottom of the site near Off Topic. http://www.dodgeforum.com/forumid_173/tt.htm http://www.dodgeforum.com/m_549478/tm.htm
3. Load the latest version of Firefox. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

These three steps proved to solve my speed issue of the data frame opening and the lag when trying to open and making posts on my work and home PC and over different ISPs.

im running firefox and dont usually have problems, unless im listening to internet radio at the same time, then all my bandwith is going to that unless im home alone, then its ok

Let me add one thing.

If you've had either IE or Firefox for a while and surfed the web a bunch, I suggest a fresh install.

If you prefer to use Firefox, uninstall it and wipe it from your system.

Then load IE and and download Adaware, Spybot, or some other such program. Sometimes 2 programs are better than one. I've had Adaware miss things that Spybot caught and vice versa. After you update and run both, reinstall Firefox or IE and it should work much better.

I have been told that a good defragmentation does the same thing, but I disagree.

ORIGINAL: MikeHTally

Just as slow with FireFox. I'm guessing it's the time it takes the moderators to read the posts and apply their censorship.

Was this intended to be some sort of joke?

ORIGINAL: BadStratRT

ORIGINAL: MikeHTally

Just as slow with FireFox. I'm guessing it's the time it takes the moderators to read the posts and apply their censorship.

Was this intended to be some sort of joke?


I hope so, all you gotta do is read the 2nd gen ram off topic thread to know there isn't much censorship going on around here.:D

ORIGINAL: BadStratRT

ORIGINAL: MikeHTally

Just as slow with FireFox. I'm guessing it's the time it takes the moderators to read the posts and apply their censorship.

Was this intended to be some sort of joke?


Sure hope so. All you gotta do is read the 2nd Gen Ram off topic thread to realize there isn't much censorship going on around here.:D

When FireFox went to version 2.0.12
it seemed to help reduce slow page loading of the frames
as discussed above.

Apple's Beta version of Safari for Windows
seems to handle the page loads a bit faster without hangups,
especially on WiFi or flaky connections

http://www.apple.com/safari/

I am on other forums and other pages with far more data loading than this one and I have the same issue with the pages... the top frame loads fast, then the area with the different threads load and then the ads... its all the additional adds that are slowing the pages down... all of the forum pages. Ebay has been doing the same thing ever since they overloaded it with all of the little ads everywhere.

In fact the only two sites I really have the issue with is this one and eBay. Pretty much all the other sites I visit are pretty darn fast and I am using the 6+att pro dsl.

I can have 4 computers and my PS3 going all at the same time and I have no bandwidth issues. I think alot of it has to do with most ads not being just simple animated gifs anymore,they are scripting of some sort.

**add**

Or worse is that they might still be gifs but they are having to beloaded from more than one page away, so we have to wait for the ads to load from google, which pulls them from somewhere else. And being that they are placed somewhere up in the page it stallsin loading the data we want to see while waiting to pull down the ads first.

the banners have nothing to do with it...they are setup to be the last thing to load, and theyre smaller file sizes than they were before...plus, there are less of them than there were before.

the problem is that i cannot go to the server people and say "this site is too slow", and they will say "compared to what?"...and thats the thing...there is no magical statistic about how fast this page loads. i cant say "df loads at 4mph while ebay loads at 10mph"...the site loads error free for me, so i cant even describe it to them, but i think that a great deal of this problem is suggestive reasoning.

All I can compare it to is how it used to load... which was alot faster page by page than it does now. What has changed now from what it was say... at the end of last year or so? When it did load faster?

ORIGINAL: BadStratRT

ORIGINAL: MikeHTally

Just as slow with FireFox. I'm guessing it's the time it takes the moderators to read the posts and apply their censorship.

Was this intended to be some sort of joke?
Not at all. I posted an example ofa much-faster site and the name was censored. No other forum site I visit is as slow as this one. I applied some "tweaks" mentioned in another thread and they worked pretty well -- except for here. Obviously I'm not the only one having the problem... There are many threads with the same subject. It isn't reasonable to ask users to change settings or spend time running "traceroutes" just to fix the one problem.

There are site names that are filtered here because we have had some issue with them at some point. if you go to those sites, our site name is typically filtered there as well. It is usually because the site in question has gotten caught spamming for members.

you honestly think that the moderators sift through the posts to find links to other sites, and remove them? In some cases, a mod may remove a link, but thats rare. It is a software filter, because many of these tiny sites dont know how to build their membership without spamming other sites.

ORIGINAL: BadStratRT

the banners have nothing to do with it...they are setup to be the last thing to load, and theyre smaller file sizes than they were before...plus, there are less of them than there were before.



With all due respect, I disagree. This site has been by far the slowest of any site I have ever visited, and I timed out frequently. Been happening as long as I have been here. I noticed that the url at the bottom when hanging up was always pagead2.googlesyndication. So I googled that term and found that if you download the extension AdblockPlus in Firefox, it prevents all the Google syndication banners. Now the site is very fast.

I have found this to work on three different computers, with DSL, wireless, and cable access. All were slow before, all are fast now.

Googlesyndication is a major loading delay.