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  • 13-10-2008 11:25AM
    #1
    paul8f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭


    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? :confused::confused::confused:

    Thanks.
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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    paul8f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭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...


  • #4
    paul8f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭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.


  • #5
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭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 :)


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