My apologies if this turns out to be a multi-post–my computer is being EXTREMELY stupid this morning, and it ground to a halt in the middle of the first post, hourglass twirling slower and slower and slower…
Is anybody else experiencing an EXTREME agonizing slowdown of the entire Internet this morning? Is the world ending? Is it a virus? Even bighub.com is creaking along.
No, I haven’t changed or added any software between last night and this morning. And CreataCard runs just fine, so the problem isn’t at this end.
I suspect the new Juno banner ad, which isn’t a “window” type ad but has an orange sidebar with an X, which if you click on it, disconnects you from the Internet. Even just loading the Juno home page, when you first log onto the Internet, suddenly it creeps along with agonizing slowness. The new ad is a lot more complicated and I suspect the slowdown is because it needs to keep reloading itself.
The effect is exactly the same flickering thing you get when you’ve got 3 or 4 windows open at the same time. Even typing here in the reply window, the words are piling up in the buffer, which they didn’t used to do–on the previous attempted new thread, it was even worse, a whole line at a time would clog up and then appear magically.
When I posted the previous thread, the hourglass slowly ground to a halt and finally “page not found” came up. Yes, I trust the CGI, but I don’t think it’s up to this challenge.
I’ve already sent a couple of e-mails to Juno tech support and the President, receiving the usual automated replies.
A couple things going on here; some stuff I know about and some is just some WAG-ging on my part.
The Reader is in the process of installing another T1 line just for this mb. As that gets set up, there will be occasional slowdowns, it’s unavoidable, all part of the installation process. The good news is that at the end of the process your connection to us should be really zippy.
I don’t know how long this is going to take, but I do believe it’s in the works this week, so be forewarned.
I would also imagine Net traffic is going to be congested for a bit in the wake of the current “ILOVEYOU” problems. I note that I have not been able to even SEE the “Internet Traffic Report” site, so I can’t even report with any numbers on the amount of congestion in the system, but if my experiences over the past few days is any indication, we’re all jammed up.
Sorry for all your inconvenience, if it ain’t one thing it’s absolutely something else, isn’t it?
Whew, OK, that’s cool. I was worried that it might be a delayed Y2K or the planetary conjunction or something. I can’t run across the street and ask my neighbor if HER Internet is slow, because she’s the one who wears tinfoil in her hat so the alien “thought rays” won’t get her…
And I can’t call my mom and ask HER, 'cause then she’ll just worry. :rolleyes:
But it’s definitely not just the SDMB, it’s the whole Web, creaking along at–what’s the opposite of “light speed”? I don’t want to say “a snail’s pace”, because that’s unfair to snails.
Well, it can’t be the whole net. I’ve been here reading a lot of stuff without noticing a delay, from before your OP to now. I’m having fun
Also, my Napster has been going at 128Kbps downloading in the background. Of course, that site is mirrored and also has little chance of seeing any email traffic.
Well, gee whiz, ShowBiz, what kind of hardware do you have? I’ve got an antique Acer 486 from the year 1996 A.D., running Windows 95, a 3.5 gig hard drive, and a 14400 modem. Yeah, I know it’s a P.O.S. but at least it’s MY P.O.S., you know? The boards are always slow for me, yeah, and so is the Web, but never THIS slow. Even the Better Half, not ordinarily a Computer Person, noticed it this morning.
Mama, I would say the board is especially slow today, too. I have a 768Kbps DSL line and am not having any more the normal slow downs with other sites. But, if they are working on the lines, then it would be expected for the board to be slow.
And don’t fret the pc, it’s plenty to get the job done. Upgrade the modem the first chance you get tho, it’ll help more than anything.
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I think the people that put the ads on pages should be shot. They should be the highest paid places on the net, you’d think they would sink a little money into equipment so that they aren’t also the slowest.
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O-kayyy…and “upgrade the modem” means exactly what, in terms of walking into Best Buy and asking for something? Just 'cause I can rattle off “3.5 gig hard drive” doesn’t mean I know exactly what it means.
In my family here, I am the “computer expert”, in the sense of being the tallest of the Seven Dwarves.
And ::: heavy sigh ::: how badly will installing a new modem screw up the carefully balanced collection of plates twirling on the ends of sticks that I call a computer? “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” etc. :rolleyes:
Would you be surprised to learn that I am 35% convinced that Bill Gates really is the Antichrist (although I don’t think he’s the “actual” Antichrist, just a sort of junior executive Beast with 10 Horns)?
Don’t mess with it if you aren’t comfortable with it. It’s doing the job. I just meant that if most of what you use your computer for is on the web, spending less than $50 on a 56K modem and even another $50 for someone to install it and make sure it worked, is going to help more than anything you could do for under a $100. That’s just based on the quick overview you gave.
Now, if you had 3 or 4 hundred to throw into it, I’d make different suggestions. And you weren’t asking for suggestions in the first place, so, I’ll just be quite now.
** Jim, ** my question is along the same lines as ** NTM ** mentioned. Today when I logged online, NetZero had installed a NZ3 it came on a bit faster, but the ads now stretch across the entire top of the page and makes everything appear a great deal lower than before.
I had the super slow computer problem too, AND, now NetZero instead of the hated ‘Resume Man’ telling me he’s going to cut me off in 59 seconds 58, 57 56, and I flat better hit that middle button, or I’ll get terminated. It now says if ‘I don’t hit something on the ** NetZero banner, ** I’ll be terminated in 5 minutes’. Now, am I interpreting that correctly, to mean, ‘Buy something, stupid, so you can stay online’??? That would mean that NetZero really isn’t ‘free’ anymore, right??
Thanks for any help you can give me with this. DJ is due home at the end of the week, but I can’t wait even that long, since my five minutes for today is about up.
Anti Pro, I’m not sure what you are asking. I don’t know much specifically about NetZero. I tell people that there is a price to be paid one way or another. I suppose clicking an ad every 5 minutes to get “free” internet service is the price.
My rant was about banner ads in general. They seem to almost always be the reason a page takes forever to load.
Anti, all it means is “click on the ad so the advertisers will think that people are clicking on it, so they’ll be happy that people are at least looking at their ad”, even if they aren’t. :rolleyes:
You don’t have to actually buy anything.
We went through this last month when the Pyroto Mountain ad started up, remember? And somebody started a thread saying, “Click on the ad, people!”
Jim, thanks for the input anyway. No, you’re right, it isn’t important enough for me spend a hundred bucks on it. And it’s probably just as well that it takes me so long to get anything done on the Web, it’s sort of self-correcting. I think I saw a post from somebody who said, “Oh, great, now that I went cable, I’m here ALL the time, instead of MOST of the time!”
Say, Anti, I can move my Juno banner ad around so it’s at the bottom of the page and doesn’t cover up the toolbars. Does yours move around, too? See if one of those four-arrow moving thingies pops up when you rest the mouse pointer on an edge. Then I resize my window so it takes up the top 2/3.
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** NTM ** yes, it moves around, but the ‘tv’ like dealie that says NetZero on it won’t go away so I have that big black square that I have to keep moving to read anything, pllus the banners. The banner was easy enough to shrink and move (DJ showed me that at Christmas) but with the extra black square, this is a major pain. Maybe they are just trying something new and it isn’t doing well today, or…yesterday.
I found out you were right about the click on the ad, I finally did that, waiting for a cash register to pop up too, but it didn’t, they just said their little spiel and went away again, it’s just that I had to keep doing it to stay online. Must be a way of telling me I’m on here too much.
