Board access time seems really slow, What is different Options

[Qarl]

Hey Admins...

Not that I am ungrateful or anything... but it takes 17-20 seconds to get to the 914club website now (timed from clicking the link in my Favorites toolbar) to when stuff starts to pop up.

Clicking on the button to post a new topic takes 8-12 seconds to pop up.

This is true for my PC at home and for my PC at work (different ISPs).

Home is a cable modem and work is a high-speed DSL.

I thought maybe it had something to do with the Mozilla browser vs. IE, but no difference from either browser or from any other PC in my office.

What gives?

Seems like something has changed and is causing the webserver to do something it didn't use to do.

[SirAndy]

So explain, that?

easy ...

you don't have to change anything on your computer to get a slower connection.
as i said, you're going over 20 hops, if only one of them has developed a problem within the last 2 weeks, you'll notice because it'll load slower.

- why is the homepage still fast?
because it doesn't have sh*t on it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

the technical forum pages are all dynamically created from a database.
LOTS of data is transmitted for those pages, a small delay on one of the hops will mulitply very fast into a BIG delay for a whole page.

- could it be a browser problem?
maybe, have you tried to delete your browser cache, including cookies?
i'm running IE6 and i'm 14 hops away and the BBS is flying for me.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/boldblue.gif) Andy