Last attempts today loaded after:
16 seconds. Read a few posts, hit the back button
30 seconds (broken out of in despair), repeat
26 seconds.
Not particularly satisfactory, gentlemen, especially on a T-3 connection!
Please advise. No, better yet, please RESOLVE.
Thanks

Typically after I click on a forum name from the froums list, my monitor will clear and the status line will increment by small divisions then race to perhaps 95+% full and freeze. This may take 5-10 seconds; the wait then begins....
Occasionally what happens next is a blank screen with "Done:" in the status line.
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QUOTE=dcutcher]Last attempts today loaded after:
16 seconds. Read a few posts, hit the back button
30 seconds (broken out of in despair), repeat
26 seconds.
Not particularly satisfactory, gentlemen, especially on a T-3 connection!
Please advise. No, better yet, please RESOLVE.
Thanks [/QUOTE]

Typically after I click on a forum name from the froums list, my monitor will clear and the status line will increment by small divisions then race to perhaps 95+% full and freeze. This may take 5-10 seconds; the wait then begins....
Occasionally what happens next is a blank screen with "Done:" in the status line.
Getting this to "file" will take almost a minute, I'll bet... .....
QUOTE=dcutcher]Last attempts today loaded after:
16 seconds. Read a few posts, hit the back button
30 seconds (broken out of in despair), repeat
26 seconds.
Not particularly satisfactory, gentlemen, especially on a T-3 connection!
Please advise. No, better yet, please RESOLVE.
Thanks [/QUOTE]

It is difficult for me to advise when here we are not seeing any of the problems you describe, and we are on a DSL line -- not a t3.

We are investigating what you are seeing. This is not the forum to duplicate your posts or to post several times in succession about the same issue. Some patience would be appreciated.
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John,
Thank you for your reply. Please udnerstand that the time lag is so unacceptable --and elastic--one is sometimes not certain the post has been sent!---hence one of my duplicates. I intentionally added one of the posts to give you further information.
As you mention, "Some patience would be appreciated." That cuts both ways, doesn't it?

dcutcher - you could always ask for a refund on your FT subscription I guess?

The techies in my experience are always on the ball and solve pretty well all these little issues.

A slower than normal FT is far better than no FT at all surely?

Was that really necessary?

I too experienced some slowness the last 2 days. I'm hooked up via cable.
As of last evening, FT was 'back to normal' for me.

...to say thanks when a request has been answered or responded to---- except in the present case, when, attempting minutes ago to acknowledge that response time had sped up remarkably since I posted last night, I just now, today, *again* incurrred the blank screen + interminable wait for next screen, so I broke out, and logged back on to FT so I could finish this post.
My 5 years as a sysad (now gone on to other system issues, thank doG) have left me with a certain perspective re: tech support.
So, before I say something I might later wish I had not,
"g'day, mate."

For the past 4 hours, on and off as I've tried, response time seems MUCH improved. Whatever who did when, thanks to all. ^

It seems like FT loads A LOT of spyware, which will slow down your computer. I know I'm getting infected from FT, because I just ran my anti-spy/Ad-aware, and I started getting new spyware and slowdowns.

I know you guys need to pay the bills, etc. But do you have to resort to this spyware crap?

I've noted elsewhere - we do not promote nor support the idea of spyware. It most certainly is not coming from FlyerTalk. An advertiser perhaps, but not us. We'd talked to the ad agency about this and i'm awaiting a reply. There is a fact not yet mentioned - that if it is coming from any advertiser, then it is prevalent on many other Web sites as well since anyone adviertising on FT is not exclusive to this Web site.

We'd love to help, but some addtional specific information would be needed.

Thanks.

Sounds more like you have an over-efficient spyware scanner. I reloaded the main page over and over again and didn't see any kind of "spyware" being pushed to my PC.

Most spyware scanners claim the cookies (like avenue.a) are spyware when in fact they are nothing more than a method to track which ad's you have, and have not seen yet.

I think it's pretty safe to say that FT does NOT send out spyware to your computer.

thanks Scott. I'm not a techie but i do have an interest in these topics for the benefit of our members and know that we have not pushed any agenda ourselves (FlyerTalk) on this.

..........my Norton Anti-Virus just flagged and blocked two attempts in the last ten minutes to load a worm on my pc while I was reading FT. No other websites are open, and, as mentioned, it could be coincidental that it happened while I was here. Running slowly, as others have mentioned.

Will check adware next.

bj-21.

Norton just blocked another attempted worm intrusion while I was on FT. This one showed as a Trojan Horse. Strange, but I'm beginning to wonder now if it's just a coincidence.

bj-21.