Very Slow Operation

[WM-300]

My only mode of connection is thru dial up. My connection speed is usually 38. 8K. Ever since the TDR saftware changed this site is very slow. I clicked "new Thread' and it took 4 minutes 18 seonds for th screen to come up to enter this post. When I try to read a post with many repiles, its almost unusable. Other forums I read are quick as they used to be.



Is this a problem with TDR being slower with the new software, or is it something on my end ? I remember we were told that TDR would be slow for a few weeks while it generated 'something'? but it has not imporved.



Not complaining, just trying to understand if I have some type of problem, and if there is anything I can do to make TDR run faster.



ThankYou

WM-300

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Take a look at this post by John - K5AWO on what he found was causing his system to operate slowly - https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112231 . I've recommended to a number of people using dial up to try downloading and using firefox as a browser (evidently it's much faster than IE - especially for dial up users) and that has significantly improved things for those users. I have also had a couple of users that were using software to block malicious scripts which slowed Javascript way down and caused a slowdown. What internet security software are you running on your pc? List everything - ie anti-virus software, firewalls, script blocking, internet security suites, adware blockers, pop-up blockers, etc. Pages should in no way take that kind of time to come up and if they were coming up that slow for lots of people I would be getting TONS of complaints and I'm not. There is a solution for you, we just need to figure out what the problem is on your PC causing it.



Edit: I just looked through the logs tonight and there were a couple of times when the server loads went way up so there would have been some slow responses at times tonight. I'll be looking into what caused those slowdowns but it sounds like there is still an issue on your PC that will improve things.

 

[WM-300]

Steve; Many thanks for the suggestions. I just followed the instructions that John K5AWO suggested. the 2 files I downloaded from Intel loaded with no problems. I can see no difference in the spped at all. In fact when I clicked to go to the Roundtable,

I went got a pepsie, hit the bathroom and it was still loading when I returned.



I am using Norton Anti Virus 2002, Spy Subtract, Ad Subtract, nothing else. Forsome reason, the TDR is the only site/forum I experience this slow down. Other forums are snappy, cant say quick on a dial up. Right now I am connected at 40K which is the fastest I ever see.



Thanks for any suggestions

WM-300

 

[John - K5AWO]

WM-300, I just wrote a long story about 3 pages to help you. and my home pc crashed and it is gone.



short version, in Internet Explorer, click on TOOLS, OPTIONS, ADVANCED



Turn off everything under multi-media. all of the pictures and icons will disappear. But the text boxes will still be there and you can still click on the boxes. This alone with speed up the downloads by 200-500%



Let me know how that works, and maybe tomorrow, I will redo the file I lost tonight.



Luck,

John

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Try temporarily disabling spy subtract and ad subtract and see if things improve. If they do turn them back on one at a time. You can probably exempt the TDR site from the offending program. My bet is that it will be the spy subtract. Most of those are installed via Javascript so it's probably filtering it - vB3 uses a lot of Javascript for it's functioning.

 

[WM-300]

Morning Steve;

I did as you suggested. Disableing Spy Subtract and Ad Subtract had no effect on response speed on TDR ? When I opened my email this morning and clicked on the new TDR post notification, it took almost 4 minutes till I was brought to your post. Maybe something happened that changed a setting on my computer thats making it run slower. I also tried as John Suggested to Kill everything in the Multi Media boxes in IE internet options/advanced. TDR still took almost a minute to bring up a thread.

I always figures, a problem like this happens to a non computer savvy person. Where is my Dead Blow Hammer ha ha



WM-300

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Try downloading firefox ( http://www.firefox.com/ ) and using that as your browser and see how you like it. All of the dial up users that I've suggested that to have been VERY satisfied.

 

[guava]

if your running windows xp, norton/symantec came out with and upgrade that really hosed IE... . i can send you more details is you want or you think it might apply

 

[WM-300]

Steve, my computer is Healed !!. John K5AWO has been working with me. He suggested I download and run, Reg Supreme and Search and Destroy. Both found a lot of problems, especially Reg Supreme at 1172 invalid items. The Bottom line everything is faster including TDR. It used to take between 3 and 4 minutes to open a thread. Now its 10 to 15 seconds !!!!!



My Thanks to John and you Steve for helping me with this problem. I had no hope what so ever to find the problem without help.



Thank You

WM-300

 

[Matt400]

Glad you got fixed. I too am tiring of using the new slow site. At work I get 50kbps but at home its never more than 24. 6 just because of the house location. No DSL or any high speed stuff available.



Odd that it was your puter yet most of the trouble was while on TDR. I tried Firefox and hated that, had no spell check in the toolbar like IE and was always popping up weird files.



The house has XP Pro and work is 98se

Gonna have to do something. :-(

 

[bulabula]

Steve, at times it seems to be real slow tonight. The slowdown isn't consistent either. I rarely look in this forum, but after waiting for a minute for a couple of threads to pop up I figured I'd see if anyone else has had any issues. Initially I was wondering if someone was hammering the server or something.



Its certainly not my browser's setup or my connection - nor do I intend to make any changes. I'm getting 1. 482M down and the other truck site pages I frequent load in the blink of an eye.



A dial up connection would almost be unbearable.



edit note: FYI, it took almost 20 seconds for this quick reply to be sent.

 

[John - K5AWO]

bulabula, the situation you are describing is consistant with DNS related issues. I have often run into that and have used the ESC key to abort the new page load. Then reclick or use Refresh to cause that page to load again. Usually the second attempt results in a fast load.



Also, there can be a short term DOS (denial of service) attack on one of the servers that is in your path to the TDR website. This will hose things up badly. I also noted the TDR site slowing down at odd times today from the office location. Our speeds there are between 3 gB to 5 gB depending on how many workstations are running in the City of Phoenix. Even with that kind of access speed, I noted these slow downs. Usually quiting the load and refreshing the call will help things out.



John

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Another thing to consider is that there are ongoing (and always will be) backbone issues that can cause slowdowns between you and specific sites. One thing you can do is a tracert to see if there are problems between you and the site. Pull up a command prompt on your machine and type:



tracert www.turbodieselregister.com



that will give you a list of all the routers that you are currently going through to get to the TDR server. If you see asterisks on that list then your connection is timing out on that router. High times will also indicate slowdowns. Those problems can be intermittent. I see nothing in the server logs tonight indicating a slow down (server loads never went over 2. 0 tonight). Last night there were a couple of 5 minute windows where the server loads went way up (over 5. 0 at one time) which will cause slow downs - I'm still researching that.

 

[Matt400]

Pull up a command prompt on your machine and type:



tracert www.turbodieselregister.com

Ok... don't laugh Steve but whats that? I mean the command prompt.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Hit your start button, go to programs->accessories->command prompt

 

[Matt400]

Thanks Steve,

No asterisks in that list. I did time this page to load from my email notify and it was 30 sec. @ 26. 4 Seems the old site was about 1/2 that.