trouble accessing iboats...

[JustJason]

has anyone had any trouble with the site lately? Every other site i browse works fine, so i'm curious if it's on my end or the server end. Thanks all.

 

[oops!]

Re: trouble accessing iboats...

i uasually just leave my puter on....so i have no problems getting on....

but my explorer....was really slow.....really really slow.

no klu hooked me up with fire fox.....its 2-3 times faster....no more 3 minit wait for pages

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: trouble accessing iboats...

i've been using Mozilla Foxfire for quite a while, it has reduced all my connection times. free download http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

 

[JustJason]

Re: trouble accessing iboats...

i cleared my cache and cookies....seems to be working better. Thanks guys!!

 

[ziggy]

Re: trouble accessing iboats...

since clearing the cache and cookies helped. maybe a disc defrag might help even more.. just an thought. i need way more help with computers than i can offer...
oh, i use fireox too. does seem better than ie....

 

[Mark42]

Re: trouble accessing iboats...

Don't knock your self out trying to speed up iboats. Its a very slow site compared to other websites regardless of where I sign on or who's pc I'm using, PC or Mac.

 

[Shizzy]

Re: trouble accessing iboats...

it has always been a tad slow for me. I find this with most of the larger forums. I always assume its due to so many being on the forum at once and all the bandwidth being used.

Lots of people off this week and logged on to Iboats? Has been slower then usual for me, but I still sit here and wait for the page....

 

[Shizzy]

Re: trouble accessing iboats...

i've been using Mozilla Foxfire for quite a while, it has reduced all my connection times. free download http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Thanks TD, I just downloaded it and Iboats seems much faster

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: trouble accessing iboats...

The slowness is not due to the number of users, it's the ads. In many cases they're actually links to ad providers - doubleclick, adclick, etc. These spamers, err... advertisers, provide their spam, err....advertising, services to a variety of websites. Any website is only as fast as the ad can render. The flash ads add an additional burden as well. You think iboats is bad, you haven't been to ebay lately on a relatively slow computer. Also, sports websites are becoming notoriously slow.

The users are actually connectionless, i.e there's no overhead except for the second you click, or the website is providing you a page (or spam). For all practical purposes, as long as these functions are not occuring, there's no website overhead.