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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 10:05 PM UTC
If you guys can give me useful info like....

Slow at X time: 18:40 GMT
Slow for X time: 1 minute, 1 hour, all day, etc.
Browser type: IE, Firefox, Netscape, etc.
Operating System: Win2000, XP, Mac

I am still not sure whether you are talking about 30 second slow-downs with a requested page or it being slow ALL the time. An occasional slow-down is completely normal for us at this time of year with so many users online. Indeed it is very normal for all high traffic sites.

For me and most users (I think) the site is never slow all the time. And if that is the case I would start looking towards your ISP no matter how other sites are performing. Site speed is dependant on a number of factors, but primarily poor DNS information cached at your ISP can be a real problem. This incorrect info means your request has to pass to another server and perhaps even to this server itself before correct IP information is gained about the doman in question. It's too bad I don't have Armorama on a dedicated IP address at the moment or we could test that theory out.

Jim
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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 10:07 PM UTC
Also if you are on Dial-up or a slower speed Internet connection I would definately recommend switching to the Dial-up theme/focus version of the site. Fewer images to load and data to grab.

Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 05:56 AM UTC
i use Firefox and i dont face any of the said slow problem.

and for firefox, try download firefox extension called Fasterfox (this will increase the speed of the page ..)

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