This board runs slow

[Deleted]

Anyone else having problems with Clippers Corner running very slow. I am not having the same problem with other web pages.

[bobbbiez]

I have had that problem once in a while also. Just yesterday when I tried to get on there was a message across my screen that stated, the website (Clipper's Corner) was over-loaded and to try again in a few minutes. That was the first time that ever happened to me.

[Clipper]

It's not Clipper's Corner that is overloaded. It is the Proboard servers that overload and you have to wait a few minutes once in a great while to be able to access the forum. I have had the same damn thing happen on Facebook. As the website provider's sites get bigger and bigger, they have to add servers and while they are in the process, you will get that message. Sometimes also they are working on the servers, adding servers, or doing updates and you will get a message like that.

[bobbbiez]

All greek to me.

[dgriffin]

The More Stories Forum is evidently on a different Proboards server than Clipper's (I presume, because I've seen one Forum up and running when the other was down) but Jon tells me he has had a similar problem of slow running on the MoreStories Forum, but not on Clipper's. Go figure.

If anyone hasn't checked us out, c'mon over to MSForum as a guest and see what's cooking!

[Clipper]

More Stories is a fun forum and along with the short stories, I love the photos and the historic value of reading it. I try to check in at least every couple of days, but lately I have been laid up with my back and don't spend as much time at the computer as I normally do. Fiona posted a link to some of her wonderful photos the other day on Facebook. Fiona, Dave and Jon Hynes are a blessing to both Clipper's Corner AND the More Stories.

Anyone that hasn't checked out the More Stories Forum needs to do so. The short stories alone will keep you entertained for hours.

[stoney]

Hell, Clipper: YOU keep me entertained for hours!

[Clipper]

I try! Is entertained the same as pissed off? ROFL

[chris]

Dave when did you create the new site? Nice!!!

This is the first I've learned of it. I don't have a problem with slow. Occasionally I have gotten the busy signal and just refresh the page and the page lets me log on.

[dgriffin]

Chris, we started back in April. We've toyed around with various ideas, from writing to history to some news comment, though not much of the latter lately. I finished up Cornhill Days there, then transferred the entire story from the More Stories Forum to the More Stories Website. Right now on the More Stories Forum, we're concentrating on History ... with Jon and Fiona in the lead, of course.

Click to take a look:

morestories.proboards.com

[Ralph]

Sometimes it may be ProBoards, and sometimes it is just where you may be located or how/where you are connected to the Internet.

Many times DSL circuits may become bogged down or overloaded, the distance you are between certain phone company relay points in their system (DSL), or whether the local cable company is having a good day or not.

You will notice that in September when school starts, that around the time everyone gets out of school, the Internet will start to slow down when all the kiddies get home and get on-line.
This may have calmed a bit since cell phones became more Internet ready, but I stopped keeping track of it a few years ago.

Sometimes…………..sh*t just happens too.

[dgriffin]

If you suspect it's the Internet, you can always run the tests at speedtest.net.
About five minutes ago, I got almost 18 Mb/s between here and Atlanta, but only a tenth of that between here and San Francisco. Both speeds are unusual. The last time I checked, a year ago, I was getting about 4 or 5 Mb to the west coast and 7 to 10 on the east coast. There's normally a difference, but not by as much as this morning, so I'm wondering if east-west movement is somehow suffering at the moment.

But 18 million bits per second. That's the entire Bible in two seconds!

[Clipper]

I have the slower of the two "high speed internet" options offered by charter communications, and although I have encountered the server problems with our forum and with other sites, it has always been the website that put up a message to try again in few minutes or whatever. I have never found my internet connection running slow. The websites normally load quickly and once on the site, any moving about is instant.

Kind of unrelated, but with that in mind, why would one want to upgrade to the faster option? Would it be a business with a lot of data to upload and download? Heck, I click the mouse and poof I am there, no problem, no delay.

My only problems with my internet cable connection has been that on a couple of occasions my modem had gone down, and I could not reset it, and had to call and have them assist me and reset it from their facility.

On Speedtest I am getting 12.3 between here and Kingston NY, and 4.3 between here and San Francisco.

[dgriffin]

Neither would I think that the higher speed is justified, unless the person or business is doing a lot of download of huge files, such as graphics, databases, etc.
I don't know which I've got, it all came in a package that Mrs. Dave ordered, her interest more phone (much cheaper than Verizon) and TV than internet.
Speedtest.net is now getting (at 12:10 p.m) 9.8 to Morristown, TN and only 1.3 to San Francisco. And a measly 0.72 to Ulaanbataar in Mongolia.

[Clipper]

Gee, I better get busy and send a facebook message to a mongolian that carries a laptop while riding his burro just to see if it is really that fast. I think mongolian burrows are equipped with accessory plugs if you just lift their tail.