I’ve had a horrible time for three days! Can’t hardly post without a lot of effort.
I went in and tried to adjust my page to make it easier to load but still having trouble.
Jim Robinson posted these tips to speed up your FR experience. They worked great on my desktop - not as good on the tablet.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951974/posts
ditto
I get the “Cannot connect” message
Same problem here. Sometimes I just give up completely getting on. Has happened more this month than before. Even after I get on often clicking on the article also is a slow load process or I give up and continue to another post. I never know if I’ll be able to read comments or not or more of the posting.
Is hooking into the net cloud cost effective? It seems you pay the more you use, and when you aren’t using as much, you pay less. The cloud is the wave of the future, is it time for FR to get under it?
When I first hit the FreeRepublic link to access the site it takes from 5 to 8 seconds to come up, always, and has for several years. I think this is a clue to the overall problem. I am going to trace the link to see where the delay is. No other site does that. They always come up in less than 2 seconds, most less than 1 second. Something is amiss and it may be that Freerepublic access is routed in a way that it can be scrutinized more thoroughly than others. Hopefully a trace will show that.
I took the advice on a thread from a couple days ago and disabled everything on my sidebars (except Breaking News and Tools) - seems to be loading faster since then - still not as good as, say, Drudge, but better.....
Does anyone know how to email Jim? I used Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 to collect a session of system data that shows 8 seconds worth of info on trying to load the FR main page. It might be helpful to them to see what my PC sees when it’s trying to paint the page. The data is wide across Excel, so I would have to email the file.
It’s getting ridiculous. I find I spend much less time here than I used to because of all these stupid problems. Which sucks because we’re SIX days away from The Most Important Election of our Lifetime...
Too many Progressive Idiots posting their crappola.
At the moment, around 4:45 AM EST Sunday, FR is very quick.
Well ... it was quick until I posted the previous reply, which hung a while; but it is faster in general, than it was yesterday (Saturday morning).