Okay, after a whole month I am finally unshapped.... YIIPPEEEEEEE

Question - The one page that took the longest to load, or sometimes never, was QGL.

I was shaped to 64k and I am curious as to why QGL takes so long to load (even more than ebay) or as said above, sometimes I would get the top inch bit and then the list of threads just wouldn't load.

Contact your isp.

Because broadband throttling methods are completely f*ing retarded.

lower your RWIN/MTU when shaped...

pls use english when replying

pls use Google before posting.

I went to google and typed in Accesing qgl while shaped but it didn't give much help.

no idea why it'd be slower than other pages

yeah, it seems strange to me as well trog because it doesn't really look like a page which should take long to load but I constantly had problems with QGL. Thought there may be some secret thing :) You know the spyware in the background

qgl is always the quickest loading for me when I'm capped, perhaps its a sign?

Kat, youre comparing something that runs on Sun hardware and database software they more than likely had to pay for (thats eBay in case you were wondering), QGL isnt exactly the most optimised of threaded forums out there. Since I dont see a little 'page rendered in x seconds' anywhere around here, its not so outrageous to assume that QGL gets served up from a PII with less ram than I use in a single instance of Firefox.

Use Firefox instead of IE. IE always took ages to load QGL for me.

I can't believe you think I am an IE user *gasp*

Well, just had to be sure, Kat.

I appologise.

8-)

it'd be related to the ads i think.. well it was for me anyway, my internode connection had a great deal of troble fetching the great many images pertaining to the ad rotation (nfi why, its not like its alot of images or anything) so instead i just blocked the images from loading but kept the 'ad' box.. that way qgl still gets their money and i dont have to look at ads..

trillion - maybe comparing qgl and ebay is bad but I can assure you other forums loaded a lot quicker and they aren't on a sun server

Use Firefox instead of IE. IE always took ages to load QGL for me.

Same for me, when I was an IE user QGL would take forever (I'm also on Internode) but since I saw the light and switched to Firefox it's all been good!

Some random page on ebay that this pc was open to: 11.93 KB (12,213 bytes)
Australianit.com.au: 9.95 KB (10,188 bytes)
news.google.com: 28.09 KB (28,764 bytes)
This page (with sigs disabled, and reply box at bottom): 76.84 KB (78,686 bytes)

NatslovR wins the race.
use adblock to block the ausforums menu bar up top and all the other things u dont need.
did wonders for me when i used to get capped

I have a theory.

I reckon your ISP has been monitoring your internet use and know how many useless threads you start.

So they have started to throttle pages (QGL) to more like 5kbit to prevent other peoples hardache.

last edited by Dodgymon at 22:40:51 27/Jan/06