Has Anyone Else Been Having Difficulties Getting Forum Pages to Open?

Just wondering if it was my shite ISP (Tiscali) or if anyone else has notice the same. Basically, forum pages will open but trying to get more than 2 or 3 to open in tabs at the same time is causing all thee (or more) to stop opening. Firefox isn't hanging and other web sites seem largely unaffected. It seems particularly prevalent with image heavy pages like bike porn, ebay etc. Could be that VB's creation has just got more popular, thoughts?

It's still zippy here and the server load is low.

What browser version are you using? And are you running lots of extensions in Firefox?

In the case of image laden websites, it's because of the number of external sites that need the DNS resolving and then connections opened to them and the files downloaded. It would be much better if I could host all of the files, but Vanilla doesn't really support that. Another reason why vBulletin whilst not as pretty as Vanilla would improve the overall experience.

A side effect of images being on other domains is that I (Vanilla) doesn't know the size of the images and so we cannot include the width and height tags in the image tag. This means that the browser will pause on rendering images as it will wait for the image headers to come down so that it can allocate the space on the page. It also means that the page appears to jump around as the layout gets adjusted to accommodate the images that it has fetched.

Anyhow, if you haven't yet tried it, give the Fasterfox extension a whirl. It will open more simultaneous connections to each server and this will in turn increase the speed at which the core parts of the page are downloaded.

Thankee kind sir. I think we might also have to shift ISP as tiscashite have become increasingly annoying.

are there really 108 guests?

snowy_again are there really 108 guests?

Yeah.

The Arrospok thread looks like it just got blogged or something. Well, it's receiving all of the attention... but I'm too lazy to go through the logs to find out the source of it.

bigben Thankee kind sir. I think we might also have to shift ISP as tiscashite have become increasingly annoying.

One thing to consider trying is http://www.opendns.org/

You'll be surprised how much faster the web can be when the DNS is faster.

snowy_again are there really 108 guests?

And then they vanish. Very strange. Now I will have to look through the logs.

bigben Thankee kind sir. I think we might also have to shift ISP as tiscashite have become increasingly annoying.

My Tiscali connection is crap as well, not just for here but in general. If you try and use multiple tabs it just doesn't work. Here at uni the londonfgss loads in no more than a second.