I've noticed that the slowness seems to be more of a rendering thing than actual data transmission.

For example, right now I'm trying to view a thread in another window and if I view source, everything is there. But looking at the IE window (using IE 6.0 on XP) only the top ad is there along with the menu bar. The rest of the page is completely blank.

I've also noticed that IE will start to render a page and then bomb out with an error saying it was unable to download the page even though it had already been displaying it.

Reloading/refreshing the page eventually fixes the issue.

This only seems to happen with FT.

I am not seeing any errors on our side at the time of your post, do you have another browser that you can try? Which forum/pages are you seeing issues with? and last question what is the error message you are getting?

I had exactly the same experience last night with FireFox -- FT very slow, the top ad would render and then the browser would just sit there. It's fine this morning.

I came over here to post a question about the possibilities of getting FT to allow or offer another format for people who only have Dial Up connections. I noticed and went to and saw this thread about the speed issue, but my situation isn't really that speed has slowed down, it's that I only have dial up (44 kbps). Granted I gotta be one of the only people left in the world that only has dial up but that's all that is offered where I am at.

So is there anyway, or maybe I missed it, that we can get the pages in a different format. I'm no techno weenie so maybe there's a browser that will load up the info without the ad's and such but I just spent over twenty minutes waiting while new posts were loading up.

So help me with web3 or whatever it is that folks are talking about please. Would that help?

mozilla has some great browsers that will load a bit faster than IE you can check them out on mozilla.com. You may also want to look into Flyertalk Premium which is ad free.

Thank you, I do use mozilla on some computers and it's still the same

As far as FT Premium, well I guess I gotta start reading the banners or go through the bars a little closer as I never knew that it existed

it has been really slow for me for many weeks. I am on IE7 and tend to open many threads in different tabs. Many of the tabs display the heading and load forever... after a while a bunch of the pages appear all at once, but many others dont and I need to refresh each one to get some to appear, then do it again with the ones that still have not loaded...

Back to the intermittent molasses thing this morning.....

We are working on some database issues currently. Thanks for the heads up.

Glad to have finally read this and know it isn't me or my mind. Just DB issues. Okay, I can handle it then; well at least sort of.