Waiting for/Transferring data from static.boards.ie

Rev. BlueJeans

XP SP3, FF3.5.5.

Seems to run on indefinitely on some windows, but not others. Unique to one server perhaps?

AlmightyCushion

Can you try refreshing your user cp. Mine seems to be taking longer than usual and I'm just wondering if it's me or the site.

Rev. BlueJeans

Yup.

Just did it there AC, it loaded well enough-but is still loading, as in the message is still there "Transferring data from static.boards.ie".

It's been going on since last night for me.

Owen

It happens regularly for me, since about year ago. I usually just reload and it sorts it.

Conor

static.boards.ie is only one machine, but it's not suffering any load issues at the moment.

I'll look into this.

AlmightyCushion

Mine doesn't seem to pause on any particular thing though. I'm gonna put it down to some problem my end. My net connection has been crap lately, I'm using a new laptop and using firefox which I haven't used in ages so it could be any one of those causing it.

Rev. BlueJeans

It seems to be behaving now, Conor.

edit: Back again, refresh ineffective.

AlmightyCushion

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Mine doesn't seem to pause on any particular thing though. I'm gonna put it down to some problem my end. My net connection has been crap lately, I'm using a new laptop and using firefox which I haven't used in ages so it could be any one of those causing it.

Went back to chrome and haven't noticed this yet. So looks like it's firefox.

Conor

This is very hard for us to diagnose. In most cases, after a bit of browsing around boards.ie, you should see little or no traffic to static.boards.ie. This is because the images served from there are given long expire times and your browser shouldn't even be checking for anything.

If your browsers are fetching lots from static.boards.ie then the behaviour is perfectly normal - there's a maximum number of parallel downloads from a single domain that Firefox will do.

If your browsers aren't fetching lots from static.boards.ie then there's only one file that should be downloaded from that domain and it should be triggered by Javascript after the page has loaded and rendered.

Do either of you have Firebug installed?

AlmightyCushion

Nope no firebug. The problem for me wasn't just static.boards.ie. I was sometimes waiting on www.boards.ie, adtech (which is an external ad server thingey so not much you could do about it I imagine) and that bbxmatrix or something. In my case it's just firefox. I switched from it a while ago to chrome because I felt the latest version was quite slow at page loading. I installed firefox on my new laptop yesterday and it was slow at rendering pages, I seen this and hoped it was a boards issue but I installed chrome and everything whizzed by again. So it's just firefox being slower than chrome.

Rev. BlueJeans

Thanks for your efforts Conor.

I thought this had been solved a few times myself over the last day or two-but without speaking too soon, it seems to be, now.

I'm not running firebug btw-not even sure what it is, without googling it;)

But for AC, I'd peg it as a local issue, even though his problem and PD's are a little different to mine (PD can F5 and get rid of his, whereas AC is getting different delays to me).

As I say, all seems well now

Rev. BlueJeans

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BTW, I had chrome for a bit and didn't like it much. Googleupdate.exe, lack of adblock (not that I use it here, chappies!), and all that.

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