# Just took me 10 minutes to connect to this site **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 2, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895 "2006-04-02T00:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/1 "2006-04-02T00:38:34Z")
Don’t know what it costs to upgrade this joint, but will personally contribute $100 to do same. Don’t tell me it is my computers, isp. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/2 "2006-04-02T01:31:06Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Don’t know what it costs to upgrade this joint, but will personally contribute $100 to do same. Don’t tell me it is my computers, isp. [/QUOTE] I don’t know what your deal is, cobber, but I’ve been checking it out intermittantly all afternoon while doing, or rather attempting to do, real work, with narry a problem. I have to wonder about all the complaints regarding connectivity; the board runs a bit slow at peak times (and sometimes in what I think should be off-peak times) but I don’t seem to have the persistant poor service or problems others complain about when connecting from either work (theoretically high throughput, realistically shitty connection) or home (medium throughput cable modem via 802.11g wireless, streams like the Mississippi). Maybe I’m just charmed–unlikely–or maybe it is, in fact, your ISP, but aside from the occasionally full outage I just don’t have that much to complain about. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/3 "2006-04-02T01:52:53Z")
**Stranger** ’s experience is similar to mine. I log on here from a number of different sites and on different computers (in the last 10 days, from 4 locations) and I had nary a problem. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/4 "2006-04-02T03:57:11Z")
Daily I have troubles connecting. I can be surfing and opening threads for 20 minutes, then I’ll have loading troubles and after 5-10 minutes of waiting for a thread to load, I’ll give up and do something else. I’ve had this pattern for about 2 years now. I’ve just gotten used to the token loading troubles and go to another site for half an hour until the board wants to cooperate with me again. This happens on multiple computers in my home, on both physical cable connection and wireless, and at my school. I know your pain, **Operation Ripper**. I know it is bad to try and load multiple threads at once in different tabs, but I need to build up reading material, so when the loading problems come, I have a queue of threads to read until the board likes me again. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/5 "2006-04-02T19:59:38Z")
Not that threads like this ever change anything, but my experiences are like **Operation Ripper** and **kushiel** ’s. Slow-ish but useable usually, mixed with periods of complete inaccessability when I actually do my work. You should know that threads like this are pointless. Offers of money, hardware, bandwidth or technical services are never taken up; people will post that the board is fine/sucks for them, someone will make a prediction about **TubaDiva** appearing (oh look, it’s me!) then later **TubaDiva** _will_ appear to say that they know about the problems, they’re working on them, slowly but surely, etc. etc. and then everyone gets back to posting 100 names of fast-food hamburgers, starting threads about their new cat, and pitting people who post about their new cat without including pictures of said cat. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/6 "2006-04-02T20:09:02Z")
I rarely have waits of more than 30 seconds to a minute. Today has been pretty fast, actually. If it is not your computer or your ISP, why would your experience be different from mine? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/7 "2006-04-02T20:32:31Z")
Just like **Stranger** , I’ve been on and off here all day while working, and never delayed at all. I get slow response at peak times once in a while, but not the connectivity problems others get. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/8 "2006-04-02T20:48:07Z")
Tuesday or Wednesday I got “page load error” for a full 15 minutes starting at (I think) 3:15 pm Chicago time (2115 UTC). A similar thing happened the next day at the same time, but only for 5 minutes. Another short slowdown an hour earlier the day after that. Other sites gave me fine response. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/9 "2006-04-02T21:09:27Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] If it is not your computer or your ISP, why would your experience be different from mine? [/QUOTE] Some kind of space/time continuum issue perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/10 "2006-04-02T21:31:25Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Some kind of space/time continuum issue perhaps? [/QUOTE] Reverse the polarity and amplify the ergion energy streams to fix the multi-dimensional rift in the space-time continuum? “Who’s Eddy and why is he in the wash?” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/11 "2006-04-02T23:19:08Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] ergion energy [/QUOTE] If we could somehow apply [orgone energy](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_073.html) rather than its distant cousin ergion energy, we might have a solution, **Tubadiva** , you listening? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/12 "2006-04-02T23:46:17Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] If we could somehow apply [orgone energy](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_073.html) rather than its distant cousin ergion energy, we might have a solution, **Tubadiva** , you listening? [/QUOTE] Oh, heck with it. Let’s just get some scalar weapons and lay into it with some 1920’s Style Death Rays. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/13 "2006-04-02T23:50:40Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Oh, heck with it. Let’s just get some scalar weapons and lay into it with some 1920’s Style Death Rays. [/QUOTE] But within a closed system? What about the children? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/14 "2006-04-02T23:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] If we could somehow apply [orgone energy](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_073.html) rather than its distant cousin ergion energy, we might have a solution, **Tubadiva** , you listening? [/QUOTE] Oh, heck with it. Let’s just get some scalar weapons and lay into it with some 1920’s Style Death Rays. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/15 "2006-04-02T23:54:09Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] But within a closed system? What about the children? [/QUOTE] I prefer them fried. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/16 "2006-04-03T00:00:35Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] I prefer them fried. Stranger [/QUOTE] Shaken here, but not stirred. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/17 "2006-04-03T00:04:49Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Shaken here, but not stirred. [/QUOTE] Do you expect me to talk? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/18 "2006-04-03T00:07:35Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Do you expect me to talk? Stranger [/QUOTE] Allow myself to introduce…myself. I’m Richie Cunningham, and this is my wife…Oprah. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/19 "2006-04-03T00:21:17Z")
Hey, you two, get a room! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895/20 "2006-04-03T00:22:41Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Allow myself to introduce…myself. I’m Richie Cunningham, and this is my wife…Oprah. [/QUOTE] ::bouncing on the couch:: I’m in love!!! I’m in love!!! So, how’s your connectivity now? If you have some problems, just channel a few Thetans and all will be good. Here, give me your wallet… Stranger [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-took-me-10-minutes-to-connect-to-this-site/350895.md?page=2)