Why is FreeRepublic Running So S-L-O-W?

DCPatriot

[DCPatriot]

For a couple of days now, the site has been crawling. It doesn't matter if I am logged in at my office or home.

My cable internet service is like having dialup.

It's going to be hell for the LIVE American Idol threads..and it was not fun on last night's 24 thread.

[stockpirate]

It is all the pro Rudy posting.

All of that BS gums up your connections making the gizzy wire run a lot slower.

This can be fixed by ZOTing proRudybots at the onset of any posts longer than one word.

[Arrowhead1952]

See what HarleyLady27 has for theories on the Rush thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1800142/posts?page=62#62

[DCPatriot]

It takes a full ten seconds to load the 'post reply' page.

The preview page loads a bit quicker.

The 'post' button takes more than 15 seconds.

ARRGHHHH!!!

[bondjamesbond]

You've obviously been drinking the Scalosian water.

Say "Hi" to Deela for me. And look out for Real... remember he's a little sensitive about that whole sterility thing...

[geo40xyz]

We didn't have this 'slow' internet problem before Bush:-()

Where's algore when his skills are needed?

[baubau]

"Came back and FR was still slow. I went to other sites and the pages loaded with no delays at all so I knew something was up with FR.

I've got the same problem here.

All other pages on the Net load very quickly, except for FR pages.

[THEUPMAN]

zippidy split for me here in Georgia on windstream DSL... and I'm out in the boonies , we get our sunshine brought in by UPS.

It must be a network problem somewhere between you and FR ... cause it's smokin here.

[Herakles]

OK, you guys found me out! Several days ago I wired my brain into the Internet to intercept all communications everywhere.

[griswold3]

me, too!!

[MarkL]

Slow on T1 lines here at large defense contractor.

Slow on our DS3 line too... However, that DS3 is shared with about 450 VPN tunnels. Still it's a lot slower than normal.

Mark

[Tanniker Smith]

It's all the Pro-Rudy/Bash-Rudy threads.
We need a Daily Unified Praise/Bash Rudy thread to control the volume.

(8P

[Tennessee_Bob]

You may well be logged in, but is there a kink in the network cable to your computer? That could be slowing it down...

[MarkL]

Slow on T1 lines here at large defense contractor.

Slow on our DS3 line too... However, that DS3 is shared by about 450 VPN tunnels. Still it's a lot slower than normal.

Mark

[PissAndVinegar]

ECHELON

[Revel]

I have also notice that for the last 3 days FR has been been very slow to respond. Once you get a response then it loads right up. But there is a long pause in getting a response.

[Old Professer]

Crappy

[kinsman redeemer]

No

[kinsman redeemer]

problem

[kinsman redeemer]

here.

[jusduat]

This might be my work, but then I can't really tell you.