What's this forum like with dialup ?

I ask this question as I just got broadband last week and I have only spent a short time here with dialup.

You see, I have never seen a forum like this before that has so many fantastic siggies. These siggy-piccies are beautiful and all that, but they must make the forum server run much slower by their bandwidth-sapping size I would think.

OK...the smartypants's here will say that the servers can handle that stuff effortlessly, but I bet that the pages here are very slow to download if you only have dialup at 56kbs.

Anybody ?

I've tried it on dialup, and its not that bad.

The server instructs the browser to cache all the images locally, so they are just downloaded the once, not on every view.

I had dialup for ages, and it's not too bad...a lot better than a lot of other sites 🙄

ask tex 😛

or me.....

If you delete your cookies it's a pain in the butt.
But if you keep everythign cached, its not that bad, its just when they change sigs and stuff,
some attachmets are a pain too.

lol would be a ***** for me
I delete my cookies like every 10 days

Do we have something to hide? naughty

no raz for those things I have a different program, which I hardly ever use since I don't care, YES I GOT PORN ON MY COMP Can't handle that TOO BAD for you 🙂

😆
i dunno why, that was just funny

Originally posted by Fire
no raz for those things I have a different program, which I hardly ever use since I don't care, YES I GOT PORN ON MY COMP Can't handle that TOO BAD for you 🙂

hey Yerss,
there's a thread in the OTF you'd enjoy,
ya haveta scroll down though....

lol which one is it TpT?

Originally posted by Tptmanno1
hey Yerss,
there's a thread in the OTF you'd enjoy,
ya haveta scroll down though....

let me state for the record here that I HATE threads being made with me in any way being or being related to the subject

I delete my cookies everytime I close IE droolio

i have dial up back home..it's awful

I don't find dial up to be too slow. I've got broadband at work and can't see that much of a difference on this site.

Originally posted by Papaumau
I ask this question as I just got broadband last week and I have only spent a short time here with dialup.

You see, I have never seen a forum like this before that has so many fantastic siggies. These siggy-piccies are beautiful and all that, but they must make the forum server run much slower by their bandwidth-sapping size I would think.

OK...the smartypants's here will say that the servers can handle that stuff effortlessly, but I bet that the pages here are very slow to download if you only have dialup at 56kbs.

Anybody ?

Dude:

If the pages download very slow when you're on dial-up, then it's not the web server, it's your slow-ass connection via dial-up.

You're on broadband, right? The real way to know when the server is overloaded (or just slow all by itself) is to notice the download speed when you are on broadband. If it's fast, then the servers do indeed handle the load effortlessly. If it's slow, then the servers are bogged down, or just slow.

I have a 3 megabit download speed via DSL. I never have a problem bringing up pages on this forum. Their servers are very fast and powerful.

Now if I was on dial-up, I'd probably think "Damn those pesky siggies and avatars! Their bogging down the effing servers!" But it wouldn't be the servers at all, it would be my connection.

See?

cornponious

Ask Fiery Eyes, shes on dial up.........altho she tells me KMC loads pretty fast as compared to my boards. 😖 and I neva delete my cookies just my temp files.

Originally posted by cornponious

Now if I was on dial-up, I'd probably think "Damn those pesky siggies and avatars! Their bogging down the effing servers!"

That should have been "They're" instead of "their".

corn

Originally posted by cornponious
Dude:

If the pages download very slow when you're on dial-up, then it's not the web server, it's your slow-ass connection via dial-up.

You're on broadband, right? The real way to know when the server is overloaded (or just slow all by itself) is to notice the download speed when you are [b]on broadband. If it's fast, then the servers do indeed handle the load effortlessly. If it's slow, then the servers are bogged down, or just slow.

I have a 3 megabit download speed via DSL. I never have a problem bringing up pages on this forum. Their servers are very fast and powerful.

Now if I was on dial-up, I'd probably think "Damn those pesky siggies and avatars! Their bogging down the effing servers!" But it wouldn't be the servers at all, it would be my connection.

See?

cornponious [/B]

Yeah....I had already sussed that, I just wanted to know if the large siggies made all that much difference !

Anyway... with 576,000 bps rather than 44kbs ( which was my usual connection speed with dialup ), this forum just flies. I am really happy with more than 10X dialup.

BUT.....3 MEGABITS

That's just showin off !

Oh yes...and... for those that like to clear out their TIF cache there is a programme called Widow Washer that will do it automatically, overwrite any nasty stuff AND leave selected cookies alone if you wish.