Sloooooowwwwww loading of these forums

[mangled]

Do these forums take F O R E V E R to load for anyone else?

I have a DSL connection. On dslreports.com I tested and get a 1.2mbps connection. All other sites load in record time as expected. Other forums I visit also load just as expected.

However, not this forum. When I click to enter a particular forum, I wait, and wait, and wait, and wait for the threads to load. Then click to read a thread and I wait, and wait, and wait, and wait. Same thing when trying to reply to a post or add a new post. I wait, and wait, and wait, and wait.

Since it's limited to these forums only, what's up?

Look at the top sticky in this forum. It's the bandwidth cap.

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[GrumpyMan]

Simply amazing.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: mangled

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Look at the top sticky in this forum. It's the bandwidth cap.

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[Lucky]

FORUMS.ANANDTECH.COM SPEED ISSUES?

 

[mangled]

Oops, I completely missed that in my fit of rage due to the loading time of this forum

 

[ProviaFan]

The cause of the slow forums is the bandwidth cap, as the Moderator has pointed out to you already. That is not changing. If you don't want to / can't afford to subscribe, something that makes the page loading _seem_ to go faster is to enter a forum, and (in Internet Explorer), SHIFT+LEFT CLICK on a topic that you're interested in. Then, minimize that new window that popped up, and go down looking for another topic to SHIFT+CLICK on. Probably by the time you've gotten down to the bottom of the topic listing, the first IE window with the first topic in it will be loaded at least partially, so you can begin to read it, while the others load.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: jliechty
The cause of the slow forums is the bandwidth cap, as the Moderator has pointed out to you already. That is not changing. If you don't want to / can't afford to subscribe, something that makes the page loading _seem_ to go faster is to enter a forum, and (in Internet Explorer), SHIFT+LEFT CLICK on a topic that you're interested in. Then, minimize that new window that popped up, and go down looking for another topic to SHIFT+CLICK on. Probably by the time you've gotten down to the bottom of the topic listing, the first IE window with the first topic in it will be loaded at least partially, so you can begin to read it, while the others load.

or use mozilla, set tabs to open in background, adn middle click every link you want. they open in new tabs (like windows, kinda), but they dont come up in front, so you dont have to click back to the main window.