[paul8f]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to boards.ie. It's a good service, but I have to say that the pages take an age to load, regardless of what thread I'm in.

It's not my broadband connection, laptop or web browser. All other sites I visit (...including forums similar to boards.ie...) are fine.

What's going on?

Thanks.

[seamus]

Today?

Doesn't seem that slow at all to me. What county are you in?

It goes through the odd patch, but it hasn't been exceptionally slow for a good while.

[paul8f]

I'm from Co Cork and have a 1Mb broadband connection with Eircom. The laptop is only a year old and never had any virus problems.


Using Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (..version 7.0.6001.18000 to be exact..). Maybe it's a web browser add-on issue. But as far as I know I have the latest versions of Java, Flash, MSXML, Shockwave, MS Silverlight. I also have the latest updates for Vista and Norton Anti-virus.

Pages on boards take aprox 20 seconds to load (including hitting the Back arrow in the browser), whereas all other sites take about 4 seconds. It's been like this since I first joined boards.

...Just tried boards.ie on the older home PC (which has the same OS & browser as laptop), and it took on average 5 seconds to load pages !!

Why is the problem only my laptop, and why is it only when I view boards.ie on it that the problem happens?

Help...

[paul8f]

Up to now I was using Norton 360 (Internet security/Anti-virus) v1.0

I downloaded and installed Norton 360 v2.0 (didn't have to pay as it's a free upgrade).

Now boards.ie works fine. Forum pages take the usual 3 - 5 seconds per page load. The frustration is over . Must have been a registry or cache problem.

[seamus]

Indeed, pages on boards can be quite heavy in terms of links and scripts and the like. If the Norton AV engine was inefficient, it may have taken it a while to scan all of the various objects on a page before it could be rendered.

Useful to know