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Old Sep 15, 2005 | 11:09 PM
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I have a lightening fast internet connection....the fastest offered in the USA. This is the absolute slowest site I have in my Favorites menu....Why?
 
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 11:15 PM
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Advertising that has fancy graphics, etc. would be my guess. You oughtta try it with my connection; I do good to get 26k. No high speed anything available out here in the boonies.
 
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 11:17 PM
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I've noticed that the site has been running slow too. I have cable internet which is lightning fast. I know there is a bunch of us on here now at the same time.


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Old Sep 16, 2005 | 12:00 AM
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I get it fast as anything else.....might be "web Hogs" in your area......
I have *** cable 4Megs a sec...
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Old Sep 16, 2005 | 01:14 AM
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its pretty slow for me too and i got beep beep
 
Old Sep 16, 2005 | 01:31 AM
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I have Comcast Cable and I got no complaints about speed. Could be the number of people on the site at one time, the speed of the host server, something or someone hogging up bandwidth, could be allot of things.
 
Old Sep 16, 2005 | 01:32 AM
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It would help if people would make their image signatures smaller.

mikeisglidin: Those are WAY to big.
 
Old Sep 16, 2005 | 01:44 AM
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Pictures take up a lot of bandwidth and we are a pic happy bunch here. This is one reason I have a pic of my ride in my public profile and not in my sig. If somebody wants to see it they just click on my name. If you have already seen it, you know what it looks like and I don't need to rub anybody's nose in it.

Most browsers have an option to turn off pictures to speed things up; then you can load the pics later if you want to see them.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2005 | 02:24 AM
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I am on dial up and at times the site is very, very slow and at other times, like now 11:20 pm cst, it is ok.
 
Old Sep 16, 2005 | 02:38 AM
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I don't know how accurate this is, but I have been told by various people that the more people that are using a particular site, the slower that it becomes. I wonder if it possible that we are growing faster than this site can keep up with?
 



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