# SDMB too slow for you? Leave!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184 "2003-11-14T04:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JerseyDiamond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@JerseyDiamond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerseyDiamond)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/61 "2003-11-18T21:05:02Z")
Off Topic has way more people than SD, and their pages load very fast. Why is that? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/62 "2003-11-18T21:39:52Z")
They have more bandwidth and CPU, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercury)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/63 "2003-11-19T01:14:40Z")
I love the boards, and that’s why I’m still here. However, it’s gotten to the point where I can hardly use them. Example: I need some information I am not able to find anywhere else on line. I know I will get that information if I post a thread asking for it. However, I know that threads have been posted on the topic before, and I’d like to read those. Possibly I won’t need to post my thread after reading the old ones, possibly I will. I have been running the same search for almost a week now and I still haven’t actually **seen** the search results. To me, that just means the boards are slow enough to be effectively unusable in that context. ~M ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/64 "2003-11-19T01:17:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > [B > > Actually, I wasn’t particularly snotty at all - I just suggested that my access to a Very Fast System[sup]TM[/sup] could contribute to my lack of problems. > > But way to slag me off at the drop of a hat. Me thinks that you have some inadequacy issues that in no way relate to your computer… > > Get help. Really. \*\* Well excuse me. I took your mulitple posts repeating that you don’t have any problems and describing your fabulous system, even after many posters explained why #1. the server speed has nothing to do with the equipment you have and #2. the administration has admitted the server is slow, as not a suggestion, but as a fact. As in, your initial post that the people offering to throw at the server should instead throw at thier equipment was still correct. Obviously, it’s not. As for the rest of your post, I assure you I have no inadequacy issues, I just think you’re an unbearable priss. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/65 "2003-11-19T06:02:08Z")
I don’t really give a shit about your opinion **lezlers** , but seeing as I have no problems, whatsoever, posting, I may as well answer. 1. I never described my “fabulous system”. I said I have DSL and broadband. For all you know from my posts in this thread, I could have a Vic 20. I have never stated or implied otherwise. 2. I posted 3 times, assuring people that I don’t have trouble posting. 3. Two other posters indicted they don’t have trouble either. 4. In my initial post, I clearly ended it with “I dunno.” indicating to any normal human being that “I didn’t know” about the information I was posting, and was offering it up as mere speculation. 5. I think you’re a pissy-panted bitch. I’m glad we’ve had this chance to share our feelings. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/66 "2003-11-19T06:03:24Z")
Wow - look at that. A mere 2.3 seconds to post. It must be this fabulous Vic 20 I’m using… ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/67 "2003-11-19T13:51:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > \*\*I don’t really give a shit about your opinion **lezlers** , but seeing as I have no problems, whatsoever, posting, I may as well answer. > > 1. I never described my “fabulous system”. I said I have DSL and broadband. For all you know from my posts in this thread, I could have a Vic 20. I have never stated or implied otherwise. > > 2. I posted 3 times, assuring people that I don’t have trouble posting. > > 3. Two other posters indicted they don’t have trouble either. > > 4. In my initial post, I clearly ended it with “I dunno.” indicating to any normal human being that “I didn’t know” about the information I was posting, and was offering it up as mere speculation. \*\* Other people do see extreme variability in posting speeds. Sometimes it’s because they just happen to be on at certain times when demand drops off, and other times it is a mystery. As I’ve mentioned again and again, I’m not sure that it’s bandwidth-related, because the SDMB can be locked up hard yet the ping times to the server are typically very fast - at least as fast as anywhere else. Rarely, the entire TCP/IP stack is locked, and the pings go off to la-la land… One thing that might be happening is you might have a huge caching proxy between you and the SDMB, or alternately your browser cache settings may be set to keep most of the pages and threads without forcing the dynamic refresh. This happens sometimes even when it’s not supposed to - when I go through one proxy, the SDMB is often lightning-fast, but I notice that the forum view pages aren’t _really_ updating, and I often have to hit “CTRL-Refresh” to get the latest view. I any event, I thought your point was valid. Some people have an amazing ability to have unintentional double and treble posts, and others do not - even though both people will claim they are only hitting “Submit” once. The truth is, when the server and system get this badly loaded, expect irrational behaviour (I won’t say “chaotic”, because that would make me sound too much like that twerp Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park…and besides, the **Velocimods** haven’t escaped the pen yet, nor has the **Lynn-Rex** …) ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/68 "2003-11-19T21:05:10Z")
hell it only took me 25 minutes to load up one thread today, down right smokin for the sdmb. yeah I havent been posting or reading here as much as I used to, I feel like I am on a 2400 modem trying to load flash or something. I hate surfing 10 pages on another MB while looking back and forth while the sdmb is STILL loading. great peeps and amazing info to be found though. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184/69 "2003-11-19T21:47:01Z")
When it’s slow go do something else. This has been said and bears repeating. Personally, I want to thank **neutron** for his/her ‘intelligent’ comment. I do a lot of forum searching on video game sites. WooT, ur so kewll, and yhou’ree a fuc_king ass_hole ( I love when people put an asterisk in so it’s ‘not’ a curse word, and then proceed to spell the whole word out anyway). What is it about being 11-17 and not understanding that clarity is more important than ‘l33t speak’. I was looking for a patch or a cheat to get over a glitch in a pc game and I came across a forum with players and mods for the game. Great! I thought, but I couldn’t wade through all the crap to get to the information I needed, and I think it was in there among all the OtThEr InFOrMAttioNN. So, thank you SDMB users. I love you. Well, most of you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-too-slow-for-you-leave/213184.md?page=3)