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CharlesL

CharlesL

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Is it just my computer, or are the Grumble, and the forums and threads horribly, painfully slow to load?
It takes forever to load Warped, for instance. Or any other forums. The little orange bar in the address line c-r-e-e-p-s along.
Anybody else having this sorta problem?
 
Have you given your computer its morning caffein fix? You know, put a cup of coffee in the cup holder...
 
sorry to say but i think it is your death box. i recently got netzero, it is pretty good. there is a bar that can be set for speed and image control. if you want a good image it takes longer to load. if you want it to go fast the images are understandable but not really clear. there are in betweens and i can tell the difference in speed. when i do the grumble and email i do the fast setting. when looking at images i put it on the slow one. it is a nice control.
good luck
nni
 
The little orange bar in the address line c-r-e-e-p-s along.
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Well there's the problem.

The little bar is supposed to be blue. Orange ALWAYS takes longer than blue.

I'm used to extreme variations in load time. I use three different computers on four different phone lines with three different ISPs. You'd think I could discover ONE combination that would be consistent.

This is why multiple huge graphics in one thread are immensely irritating to me. And, yeh, I know they'll load faster during subsequent visits.

I normally don't make any subsequent visits.
 
In short, it's not you or the Grumble - it's probably the internet There were 3 major viri in the past week, as well as millions of people downloading the fixes and virus updates.

Many dialup ISPs are unable to maintain connections with their users, who continually get cut off. It's because the viri are doing random "port scans" (trying every internet address out there, looking for people who haven't put the patches in - so they can infect). All of this activity is "flooding/overloading" the capacity of dialup modem connections.

DSL and Cable companies are having the same problem with their routers and switching equipment. We're on Cox Cable here at home, at the shop, and two other offices. For the past few days, each location has had periods of downtime and slowness related to the virus. (I called and asked) I consult for an ISP in Providence, and their dialup users were unable to stay connected until port 135 was blocked in their equipment.

It should just be a temporary thing. Such a waste of talent from these virus authors. :(

Mike

PS:
The little bar is supposed to be blue. Orange ALWAYS takes longer than blue.
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Then again, this might be the cause too!


[ 08-22-2003, 09:48 AM: Message edited by: Mike-L@GTP ]
 
This isn't necessarily related to Charles' load-time problem, but I've been astounded at the frequency of the "high-risk alerts" issued by my Norton firewall recently.

Last night it was the "Default Block Backdoor/SubSeven Trojan horse." Six or seven of 'em.

The latest version of Norton's firewall has a tracking feature that gives you domain information about the source of the attempted intrusion. I have no idea what to do with that information, but I can say, "Isn't that interesting? Someone in Frankfurt, Germany is trying to get into my hard drive."

I used to think a firewall was excessive if you use dial-up only. I've changed my mind.
 
Be very careful, Ron.

Once those Frankfurters start sneaking in your back door on their SubSeven Trojan Horses, you are in for a peck 'a trouble! You may think that there are only 6 or 7 but inside those horses are many many more Franks and they will take over your operation in no time at all. :eek:

Why, I remember back in '87 in Berlin, it was barely light, ..................

Be alert!

Omar

[ 08-22-2003, 10:34 AM: Message edited by: Omar ]
 
Charles,

The previous comments, that it is "normal" and temporary are MOST PROBABLY CORRECT!

However ... have you restarted your machine recently?

If the slowness seems recent and unusual ...

Although highly unlikely, it is possible for the swap area to become highly fragmented when many applications have been in and out of your in-process memory. Restarting should clean this up.

Also, (Although even more HIGHLY unlikely given today's machines), you may have too many applications with high memory usage running thus causing some "disk thrashing" to the swap area. To test this just stop some/all other applications and see if your speed improves.

Odds are it's just something you have to wait out, but at least this gives you a couple of things to try.

Good Luck,
Cliff

[ 08-22-2003, 10:44 AM: Message edited by: Cliff Wilson ]
 
Along the same lines, if you use an application that has a memory leak (asking for memory when it starts, but not giving it back when you close it) this can also lead to overuse of the swap file.

Even I have to restart my machine every month or two just to blow the dust out. And that's with 768MB memory and an 1150MB swap file.
 
Ron wrote:
The latest version of Norton's firewall has a tracking feature that gives you domain information about the source of the attempted intrusion. I have no idea what to do with that information, but I can say, "Isn't that interesting? Someone in Frankfurt, Germany is trying to get into my hard drive."
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Doubt it... most virii and worms now "spoof" their return address to something random so they can't be traced back to the source. Once you're infected they can then always phone home with your net address.
 
Thanks, y'all, but I found out what the problem was...it was that %^$&*#^ Gateway!
I called Gateway tech support 6, SIX!!! times today, and got six different so-called tech suppost people, and six different so-called solutions.
The last one was to reformat the HDD. Having no better ideas, I did...After 4 hours of formatting, it was clean. I had to reload all the drivers AND XP! Then I had to build all new accounts to get the damned thing back on line!
Now I have to go back and read the thread on the msnblaster and see what to download to rid the puter of IT, because, when I formatted the HDD, it, of course, did away with the patch.

God, I hate Gateway!!! I am very glad for those of you that have working Gateways, but I almost shot this one today. ALL DAY working on the d@mn thing!
It fixed the problem, though. It loads at the same speed it always did.
The H/P I use upstairs hasn't hiccuped a single time!

Thanks again, guys, for the help. I wish it HAD been something besides a junk computer!
 
Make sure the antivirus is updated before updating the ms ones. Fortunately I did that on a new computer I'm setting up and there were 20 critical updates...yep the old W32 Welchia wound it's way in and Norton put up the alert. Only one file infected, got rid of that and went back to ms and did just the two recommended for the worm, then I couldn't log onto the G..so went in and lowered security and now I will probably be sorry I did.

Now to try and do more of the updates one or two at a time. At least if this one crashes, I've no files to worry about and I've got 90 days to return.
 
Welcome back!

There's nothing more frustrating than having to rebuild/format your computer, and finding out what you accidentally lost.

Glad to see that you're back up to speed and sorry my advice was wrong! hehe

Mike
 
Mike, your advice wasn't wrong...you just don't know the history behind this...this...computer!

A test: See if you can figure out how the two images below go together...in the near future: <center>
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"I await in gleeful anticipation. A man ought to take his computer hunting. It does them BOTH good!!"

[ 08-23-2003, 08:53 AM: Message edited by: CharlesL ]
 
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