This forum is so sloooooooow
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
ORIGINAL: JimKW
Yes that worked, but it took longer to load that IE did. I'm going to try and log out now, which would not work before, and then log back in and enable adblock again just to see what happens.
Yes that worked, but it took longer to load that IE did. I'm going to try and log out now, which would not work before, and then log back in and enable adblock again just to see what happens.
RAM specs have changed dramatically in the last few years, and finding the right RAM could be a challenge (like my PC2100 DDR SDRAM, Bus-Speed 266MHz, 200-PIN SODIMM whatever[8D]). I wanted to get them before they went extinct.
JPN
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
I'm actually running a farily new system that has 512M of RAM. Once I blocked the ads things got much faster. The biggest gain I see is when I go BACK and the screen comes right up whereas with IE it would take a long time to populate the screen even going back.
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
ORIGINAL: JPN
Longer loading time can be lessened by upgrading the RAM (The difference was noticeable when I went from 256MB to 512MB, but not much change from 512MB to 1GB. I assumed that the outdated, slow 1.6GHz Pentium-4 could not handle the situation[8D]).
Longer loading time can be lessened by upgrading the RAM (The difference was noticeable when I went from 256MB to 512MB, but not much change from 512MB to 1GB. I assumed that the outdated, slow 1.6GHz Pentium-4 could not handle the situation[8D]).
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
ORIGINAL: JimKW
I'm actually running a farily new system that has 512M of RAM. Once I blocked the ads things got much faster. The biggest gain I see is when I go BACK and the screen comes right up whereas with IE it would take a long time to populate the screen even going back.
I'm actually running a farily new system that has 512M of RAM. Once I blocked the ads things got much faster. The biggest gain I see is when I go BACK and the screen comes right up whereas with IE it would take a long time to populate the screen even going back.
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
Axel, I absolutely agree that gamers are the ones who need top of the line everything; CPU, RAM, Video Card, Sound Card, Streaming Video all running simultaneously. I once did a simulation on a Dell's XPS option adding page, and a fully-loaded XPS exceeded $6,000[:-].
You are definitely my electronics mentor. BTW, do you find any difference between Pentium & AMD?
JPN
You are definitely my electronics mentor. BTW, do you find any difference between Pentium & AMD?
JPN
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
Two minutes exactly and I have a fairly fast connection at 41.3 kbps right now. I've seen that as low as 12.2 on occasions. When I hit refresh though it only took 30 seconds, and when I go back the screen just comes right up.
Took about 16 seconds to post this reply, which isn't bad at all.
Took about 16 seconds to post this reply, which isn't bad at all.
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
ORIGINAL: JimKW
Two minutes exactly and I have a fairly fast connection at 41.3 kbps right now. I've seen that as low as 12.2 on occasions. When I hit refresh though it only took 30 seconds, and when I go back the screen just comes right up.
Took about 16 seconds to post this reply, which isn't bad at all.
Two minutes exactly and I have a fairly fast connection at 41.3 kbps right now. I've seen that as low as 12.2 on occasions. When I hit refresh though it only took 30 seconds, and when I go back the screen just comes right up.
Took about 16 seconds to post this reply, which isn't bad at all.
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
ORIGINAL: JimKW
Two minutes exactly and I have a fairly fast connection at 41.3 kbps right now. I've seen that as low as 12.2 on occasions.
Two minutes exactly and I have a fairly fast connection at 41.3 kbps right now. I've seen that as low as 12.2 on occasions.
Another option would be to get a separate phone line (i.e. separate wiring) to make sure that the wires are new and that there are no other devices injecting noise into the line.
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I highly doubt the problem is on my end because it's only certain times of the day when it's real slow. If I get on in the middle of the night I will get 44 kbps and right now (7:30 in the morning) I'm at 40. Earthlink claims everything is fine on their end too. I hardly ever have a line drop on my. I disconnect and reconnect often trying to get faster service though.
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
What kind of analog modem are you using? You could probably buy a used US Robotics Sportster 56K for pennies on eBay. Those were the best for noisy lines IIRC. Another option is to ask your ISP what modems they are using on their side and then get the same one. Sometimes different chipsets don't cooperate very well when they negotiate speed.
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RE: This forum is so sloooooooow
Your analog voice line is probably being digitalized somewhere down the road. Voice compression algorithms adapt to the amount of traffic to stuff more users in the same bandwidth. To do that they distort the signal. An analogy would be mp3 compression. It sounds just like the original song, but it isnĀ“t.