Forum slow loading problem...

[homercles337]

When im at home (comcast cable in central cambridge), the forum pages load tend to stall. I usually see "waiting for ads.xxx.com to reply..." Where xxx is often googlesyndication, or cdn. The thing is that i work at MIT and i have no problems there. I guess it must be a problem with my ISP, but i dont have problems with any other sites loading ads.xxx.com. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this?

 

[cprince]

Are you using the same computer to access the website?

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: cprince
Are you using the same computer to access the website?

No. Why would that matter? My home machine bigger, better, faster, more than my work machine. Plus, this is a fairly new problem for me (and obviously i have been around here for a little while) during the last couple months. Im wondering if running that software to monitor ISP throttling would find something.

 

[cprince]

I was thinking that you might have some kind of ad filtering software on your home computer.

 

[homercles337]

Ah, sure. The only ad filtering i have is adblock (i use the same thing at work too, probably different things blocked though). I had it set to "hide ads" not "remove ads." I guess i need to spend more time with this, eh? Why would "hiding" an ad prevent a page from loading?

I have found a solution, by adding pagead2.googlesyndication.com to my hosts file. It loads fine now, but i need to find something more sophisticated perhaps.

 

[boomerang]

Everything is loading horribly slow for me. Has been for the past two days. It's the same in IE7 and Firefox (well, a little faster in FF.)

I've just migrated to Vista 64-bit from XP Pro but I can't imagine there's a connection because other web sites load just plain zippy like normal.

It's incredibly slow and very frustrating.

I should mention the AnandTech site itself is just as slow. I usually come here from there.

Edit: I fixed the problem by disabling autotuning.