You guys spoiled it to me... now I started thinking it's too slow here too! I was happy! Why did you do that?

Nah, just joking. I get the 2 sec delay and am confortable with it.

Not a problem... once we get something worked out with our ISP, I might ask you to let me know if it gets any faster.

Thanks, Ben. As I said originally, not a big deal really, but just thought you guys ought to know. Thanks!

We use our bonded T1s at work to host the website.  I think part of it could be our ISP's peering agreements and what NAPs they go across... The response within the office is less than a 10th of a second, so we're pretty sure it's not the server or the database.  Ivan gets good speed and several people that we talk to get good speed as well; however, from my house, I would kill for a response time of only 2 seconds... mine is more like 6+ per page load (and I have 5M/1M bandwidth at home with a ping time to Google of around 25ms, so I know it's not my ISP at home).  From what I have been able to tell, it's either our ISP's peering or some sort of bandwidth limiter/content filter that our ISP is using and right now we're going back and forth with them arguing about it.  I keep leaning toward some sort of content filter, because almost always, the page loads faster for people when they use https and not http to load the SF website.

So, as I know more, I'll let you know.

IE6 @ work and sometimes IE7 @ home (depends on which machine I'm working from). Mostly IE6, though.

Which browser are you using?  And if using IE7, do you have the phishing filter turned on (if so, each object gets checked out live against the MS online list, or so I've read).

Hank

Not upset, really--just that in the course of searching for a question, I might search for and open up five+ topics to see that I'm not asking something already answered, etc. That delay adds up and interrupts the flow somewhat...I get tempted to jump over and respond to an e-mail while waiting for the page to load, and then I've managed to interrupt myself even further.

Anyway, not a big deal, but faster is always better if there's an easy solution (and sometimes there is). If not, I'm still certainly quite happy with the quality of content on the forums here as well as the overall support picture.

I have the same, perhaps two seconds, which I am glad to wait for the morsels of goodness inside



Are you really upset about two seconds?

Keith Chisarik

Well, after trying it from home, I still see a good bit of latency, and I don't think it's related to the network. The initial response from the web server comes through but then it waits as the forum software does its work to load the rest of the page. We're not talking about five seconds per load, but it's a good two seconds from clicking on a topic to seeing the topic displayed.

Or maybe I'm just like my mother...she's never satisfied.

That's good to know...especially since you are in a completely different country!!