OT: Logging-In Issues at Altec User Board

**RonSSS** · April 30th, 2011, 01:02 PM

Look at the top of the site:

Hostboard is Redefining the forum experience........I have to agree! Ha!

Ron

GM · April 30th, 2011, 04:43 PM

Good one! I missed that! Guess it's just more 'change we can believe in'!

GM

**Steve Schell** · May 3rd, 2011, 03:42 PM

I feel lucky whenever I achieve a page load here anymore. The usual time is between thirty seconds and infinity.

**theophile** · May 3rd, 2011, 05:45 PM

I'm still taking about 5 to 7 seconds for it to load.

There was one instance last week where it took 20 seconds.

**voice of the theater** · May 3rd, 2011, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by theophile

I'm still taking about 5 to 7 seconds for it to load.

There was one instance last week where it took 20 seconds.

I think you're getting in o.k. because of the time (zone) difference. Certain times of day in particular it's often so slow that browsers time out--and the time of day that you usually post it's usually fine. Have you tried posting here at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time for example (which I believe is 1 a.m. your time)? Or maybe you've just been lucky with your timing.....

**bfish** · May 3rd, 2011, 08:02 PM

Geez, whatta you guys do when the power goes out?

Seen on a teeny's Iphone;
"OMG GF, my twitter's brok and if I cant tweet Heather's peepants I'll just duh-eye!!"

YouTube - Without The Internet...

**voice of the theater** · May 4th, 2011, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by bfish

Geez, whatta you guys do when the power goes out?

Several years ago we had a severe ice storm here in Rochester, NY. Many households here were without power for 2 or 3 days or more. Nine months later there was a substantial rise in the local birth-rate. Those kids are still referred to as "ice storm babies". So I guess, here locally at least, when people can't fire up their Altecs, they find other ways to make beautiful music together.....

As a kid, growing up in the 60's in a tiny "hick" town, we often had power outages during thunder storms etc. Us kids used to look forward to them---played (home made) games by candlelight or in the dark, or sat on the porch and watched natures light(ning) show, etc. I suspect that many kids today, being more technologically oriented in these times (not necessarily always a bad thing), would have a different take on a power outage.

As an "adult", if the world was sent back to the "stone age" due to man made or natural disaster(s), I'd miss the technology we have now (and would really miss the electricity needed to listen to my Altecs!) but due to my upbringing I'd be ok with fireplace heat, candlelight, bicycle transportation, my acoustic guitar, etc. I'd probably shed a tear when I ran out of guitar strings, however--not sure if I have the stomach to make cat gut strings (here kitty kitty!)......

Originally Posted by GM

That, or whatever 'i532 photobucket........' is that takes seemingly forever to do its 'thing' before allowing ones action to complete. I just refreshed the forum around 3:24 am EST and it loaded as fast or faster as any of the forums I frequent at any time of day, so to my computer illiterate way of thinking, it's strictly a Hostboard problem.

GM

Exactly--while certain times of day the Hostboard is slow and/or seemingly so slow as to be inoperable, it is fast other times of day -- whereas other sites I frequent are fast 24/7. I would agree that it's "strictly a Hostboard problem".

Originally Posted by theophile

I'm still taking about 5 to 7 seconds for it to load.

There was one instance last week where it took 20 seconds.

How much are the Hostboard owners paying you to say that?! :snickerpup:

GM · May 4th, 2011, 03:37 AM

Originally Posted by voice of the theater

Certain times of day in particular it's often so slow that browsers time out--

That, or whatever 'i532 photobucket........' is that takes seemingly forever to do its 'thing' before allowing ones action to complete. I just refreshed the forum around 3:24 am EST and it loaded as fast or faster as any of the forums I frequent at any time of day, so to my computer illiterate way of thinking, it's strictly a Hostboard problem.

GM