i am having a lot of trouble accessing pages... they time out a lot. it's not the DNS because my browser tells me it's waiting for a response. there maybe router bottlenecks from my side of the ocean... i don't know...

just wondered if anyone else is having this problem? it doesn't matter what "action" i perform - be it a new post, edit post, bringing up the forum view, accessing threads... my timeout v.s. success rate is about 50:50 ... a real bugg in the butt.

anyone else having this problem?

Mari are you still on, are you having this problem?

~ waves ~ growling at the computer

Hi, Waves
Sort of. I notice when I hit reply, sometimes tongiht the page takes forever to do what it is supposed to do.
Maybe someone will resolve it in a few hours.

Mari

I haven't noticed the slowness here so much, but at times on other web pages seem they load very slow.
but it's random for me not just one site or one place.

If you hit the refresh or reload button - does it come up fast then?
on my system it usually does.

I had weeks of snafus with this site and it turned out to be my router, which
was not working sometimes and working okay others. This totally confused us.

My husband's new laptop was the last straw...and it crashed our desktop regularly. If we unplugged it I could use this unit on weekends occasionally...
it was very hard to localize the problem.

Do you have the little icons on your tool tray at the bottom?
My son put those there for us, and then we saw that when those "can't find page" screens came up, we were getting a red X on the icons.

There is a trojan out there, labeled low threat that Trend Micro found on our unit. It was BHO_ MyWay... it is a browser blocker. I had it removed.
The scan is free, called HouseCall. You might want to try it. This was missed by our SpyBot and Avast scans.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
(Mike Weins at BT suggested this to me).

I haven't noticed a problem with other sites in general, except one which loads heavy graphics... which was behaving the same way.

as for NeuroTalk reload helps sometimes other times not. i have tried stopping the load and reloading, or loading a different page... same thing. once i had 3 tabs all "waiting" for the NT server to respond... supposedly.......

I say supposedly because something else just occurred to me. Ding!

Could be a browser problem.

Last night a friend of mine and i both had problems loading Google Search of all things, both of us using Firefox. I am running XP, i don't know if he is using XP or Vista. Anyway, when we tried IE, things were fine, when Firefox continued to fail. A while later Firefox was fine again. But we were IM'ing nad not loading pages much really... so we can't be sure since the problem is intermittent as is.

Be good to have feedback from others using different browsers/systems:
-- Internet Explorer / Windows
-- Safari / Mac OS
-- one of the Linux browsers (firefox, mozilla, seamonkey)

what browser and operating system are you guys using?

are you having slowness of timeout problems with loading pages or not?

I figure if the problem persists, I will try using Internet Explorer and Firefox both and navigate heavily... and see if there is a difference in behaviour between them.

~ waves ~

it's all the kids home for the holidays. college kids too. they are clogging up the internet.

with Firefox. I think it is great.

But I was having MEGA problems with that ROUTER!

I searched MANY things including a fix from Winsock for corrupted internet files.

Check out my posts on the computer forum here.

And yes, Google was very slow for us as well. It was NOT Firefox...it was our router!

In the end my son came here and watched this failure, and he thought it was not my computer, but the router. So we bought a new one and bingo...all is well, and my husband and I can be online at the same time with two very
different programs (he uses VPN hook ups).

It was a MESS and ultra frustrating...
I would get those pages, and have to back out several times. And then when the red Xs started I'd have to wait for them to cycle down. After 5 min they sometimes cleared, and sometimes not.
One thing here that ALWAYS stalled me was "edit". I just could not edit anything during this time of malfunction. I don't know what is special about edit... but for me it was RED X's.

Oh, and BTW...have you cleared the cache? You should and see if it is better.

i do not have a router here at home, i plug right into the phone line (ADSL).

of course there could be a bottleneck or glitch on some OTHER router between us measly clients and the NeuroTalk server.

it is comforting to know you have not had issues with Firefox. Still the incident with my friend where Firefox was timing out or failing page loads, while IE was running just fine... hmmmm...

Just checked my cache/personal data optioins - i had different settings with IE. Just cleared everyting out except the cookies (but i looked at those) and disabled caching. If this is the problem, it could easily be that my friend has the same settings... so, will see how it goes.

Yeah Curious... not only that but those "forward this to twenty people or your first born child will be turned into a newt" type emails.

Anyway, thanks Mrs. D!

~ waves ~ from across the ocean

can you send me the newt email...i could use it. not send it mind you...