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Originally posted by WestCoastPat
Hey SS-let me see if I can explain my situation to you and you can tell me what to do or where to go. LOL.
1. I have the active topics page set up as my home page.
2. I am running IE-the latest with all the updates.
3. I click on a topic and the green bars come on but the page does not.
4. I try a few times and give up.
5. I open a new window with the same browser and can go to any other site with no problem.
6. I surf a while and then come back on Matt's and all is well.
7. All of a sudden while reading topics it all starts again.
8. NOW I bet you want to tell me where to go.
Thanks for any help you can give me. I will try most anything, but it seems that it is the site that is not responding. Most of the time it is fine but sometimes it screws up.
Would it help to keep a log of when the problem exists? I still think you guys do a great job-I just want it to be a little better then perfect. WCP
(this is just advice first): The Active Topics page and the Active Users page really shouldn't be a 'home page' as they automatically refresh the page against the server and create a tremendous load by hitting the server every 60 seconds for an update.
Try by setting your homepage to the root of the forum (http://www.carnivalwarehouse.com/forum) and see if there is an improvement.
I also am curious -- what type of connection to the internet do you have, what version of windows are you running, and how much RAM memory is in the machine, and how much FREE Hard Drive space do you have. These may have been answered before, and you can PM me the answers if you wish. If your connection is thru dial-up, that may be the ultimate cause right there. Dialup on a Windows machine, once it connects, tends to spend a few minutes flooding the connection by talking to MS' servers looking for updates, and basically phoning home, etc. After a minute or two, the connection will calm down and things will start flowing again (although obviously slowly). You most likely are not on dialup any more though, so this should be irrelevant to you. Let's see what your machine is like (by PMing me the answers to those questions) and we'll go from there.
These could all be nothing of concern (the machine specs) but before I can give you an honest answer, I need as many details as I can get.
Thanks --
@Everyone:
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