I dunno, maybe it's location-oriented. I am and have been on dial-up for a about a year. I just got a new modem 3 days ago (U.S. Robotics 56K PCI V.92 faxmodem). If I can remember correctly, this site loaded a little slower than, say, Stangnet's homepage. But lately, I can
honestly say that just about every page I go to in the forums load in anywhere from 7-13 seconds (
usually around 10 sec)! That is awesome to me. I do remember a time that this website was slow, but I remember that being right b4 Dan did the major change and made the bg color grey (that musta been, what, 2 years ago???-- I know it got faster when he did the upgrade, but it seemed to get slower for a time after that than picked up again...). On my brother's computer in Atlanta and Cartersville, GA area (running cable from a company called Adelphia), MW flies --- consistently. I don't understand why MW is running slow for some people with cable and DSL
.... and I'm pretty far out from the city...takes me 20 minutes to get to "town". I'm in what you'd call, the "country"...
Well, out of all that... I'm saying that this site runs EXCEPTIONALLY fast for me on the dial-up modem. No problems on my end.
Okay, I just counted the seconds to load the MW Home page:
Trial 1--
10 seconds-- on dial-up!
Trial 2--
8.5 seconds
Trial 1--
12 seconds for the Message Board (Forums) main page!
Trial 2--
8 seconds
Trial 1--
11 seconds for Blue Oval Lounge forum!
Trial 2--
7 seconds
Trial 1--
9 seconds to load this thread...
Trial 2--
10 seconds
Trial 1--
10 seconds preview my reply to this thread.
Trial 2--Like clockwork...
10 seconds
Trial 3--
16 seconds...
Trial 4--
10 seconds
That, to me, is remarkable....especially for me with the dial-up. ...And my network connection right now is at 24 Kbps (usually at around 26). And it's around 12 AM where I am.... Oh yeah, and one last thing... I have a pop-up killer so I assume that helps a bit.
Later...