Why do most motherboard maker's website are slow as s**t?

[ROcHE]

How can you have such slow sites in 2006?

I get angry downloading a manual from Asus or DFI at 5kb/s.

 

[nyker96]

cause they don't got the cash for it, penny pinching business. Heard they only make like 10-20% per board which isn't much, small margins.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

maybe because they're in east asia?

 

[ROcHE]

They should have some sites this side of the world then. I get the feeling there is a 56K link between Taiwan and North America 🙁

 

[d3lt4]

I hate going to the DFI site. It's so slow. I just thought it was me. Now I know everyone else has the same problem.

 

[Mogadon]

Yeh, it's ironic that some of the sites you'd expect to be the fastest are so bad. I've had never ending problems with bad links and slow load times on both Abit's and MSI's sites. I haven't really visited many others as I haven't had the chance to use their products yet but i'll take y'alls word for it.

 

[Budarow]

The mobos in their servers are failing....

 

[professor1942]

Yeah I don't think Taiwan and China have quite the same bandwidth we're used to... 😉

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Budarow
The mobos in their servers are failing....

Must be bulging/burst capacitors. :laugh:

Originally posted by: professor1942
Yeah I don't think Taiwan and China have quite the same bandwidth we're used to... 😉

Don't know about China, but shouldn't Taiwan have bandwidth? Dunno. Still, you can grab some hosting with decent bandwidth for the profit from a motherboard a week.

 

[Mezzanine]

Not sure but i know the Asus site is slow and horrible to navigate, i hate going there.

 

[TheRyuu]

Asus, the worlds largest manufacturer of motherboards has one dam slow site.

 

[LiquidImpulse]

you should see jetways page *shudders*

 

[joanknn]

It is the same in SIngapore, accessing especially TW sites are extremely slow! quite a turn off when you need to download drivers or bios.

 

[F1shF4t]

actually funny thing is that apparently asus site has gotten better, well last i been there 😛

 

[mazeroth]

I had to visit the Asus site a few weeks back for a BIOS update for my motherboard. Wouldn't you know it, the link for the file was bad.

Talk about pissed!