Re: Anyone Having Trouble With Iboats On Ie or Firefox?
AOL used to have a browser based on Internet Explore, it has been tweaked to be AOL branded, just because things load slow on your computer, does not mean it is a problem with your computer, you have to realize, there is a whole bunch of lines the information your request has to go through before it gets to you, there could be any number of reasons that one browser loads slow and another loads fast, you have to remember AOL is a true backbone system and owns many of the lines that information is transmitted over, your ISP, unless it is very large telecommunication company does not own it own system, they lease lines from other bigger companies and it could be a slow node anywhere along the line that is bottle necking.
My network servers are located in CA, but rarely do I get a direct connection to them, I may be routed through Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Boston, etc. before I actually make a connection to them in CA. Do a search in google for a traceroute tool that you can run, and it will tell you where you are being routed before you finally reach your destination..
Also it is becoming more common for certain ISP's around the country to do bandwidth braking, which means they are throttling you down from what you are actually paying for, I caught my ISP doing it and made a big stink, they had to refund several hundreds of dollars to many of us in my location because it illegal to do this, they have to make all effort to deliver as close to the speed they are selling you.
