FYI - I seem to be having a problem from time to time with the forum locking up between pages or when I jump to a new thread. Usually it just times out.
Are you using Firefox?
Same here. Earlier tonight, pages never did end up loading.
IE6
No problems here w/Firefox.
Same here. I close the window and log back on and everything is just fine for a while.
No, not anymore.
Opening this thread just now:
First try timed out.
Second try took about 5 minutes.
Even with DSL this site is very slow to load. Using Internet Explorer and Netscape. There are a lot of graphics (.gif) files that load on this site.
Cable connection (4.0mbs) and Firefox having zero problems.
Some browsers may have had trouble caching and/or fetching images stored in the db. No sense in hitting the db more than necessary so I converted them to webserver storage. You guys should see a performance increase if it was hanging up on the banners.
FWIW I haven’t noticed any speed issues on a SLOW cable connection (1.5mb/s) with Firefox or IE. The site runs lightning fast on my fast connection (8mb/s) with both browsers. Let me know how it’s going for you guys.
Happens all the time with me, and is the main reason I dont post here often. I know several folks who dont come here at all because its just too damn slow.
It is just about the slowest of any forum I go to, unfortunately.
Same here, and I’m using a cable modem.
Can you guys saying it’s slow do me a favor and ping the site?
Just open a command prompt window and type “ping www.m4carbine.net” (without quotes) and post the average ping time, and % loss.
Much appreciated!
4:58 PM Eastern, 9/28/06
Executed ping command 4 times. Each time had zero% loss. Times averaged from 86ms to 88ms. (For reference, the same ping to Yahoo.com averaged 18ms.) The site homepage displays reasonable quickly. It takes a few seconds to “paint” all of the sponsor images, but not long. The delay is in accessing specific threads. Currently taking 8-10 seconds from the time I click a link to the time the thread is opened.
Thanks yrac.
That ping isn’t great but it’s acceptable. No way should it be taking 10 seconds to load a thread. When I click into an uncached new thread it takes 2 seconds tops on my slowest connection in IE. In Firefox it’s just about instantaneous.
Please bear with me while I try to figure out what might be causing this. It’s working fine here so I’m taking stabs in the dark…
Does it seem any better now?
Average of 106 ms with 0% loss. I did a trace route and it looks slows travelling from east coast to the west coast. I tried it several times and there are usually a few “request timed out” trying to find the first hop across the US. The ISP is Level3 where this happens.
Average of 78 ms with 0% loss.
This thread took maybe 8-10 seconds to load. When I hit reply, it took maybe 8-10 seconds for the Reply page to load.
Dayum! There are some real Alpha Geeks here… some odd microseconds, with a percetage of loss do to the ping thing 
I guess I am lucky, loads fine for me…
Different computer:
Average of 123 ms with 0% loss.