Super Laggy

I've been seeing this lagginess from two different setups:

At home, I'm running two different PCs on a Comcast high-speed connection. One is an '03 HP and the other is an '07 HP, both on XP.

At work, I'm running an '08 Dell PC on Vista (no, I wasn't given a choice regarding either Dell or Vista) on a T-1 line from a local phone carrier.

ubarose wrote:

Shellhead wrote:

I've been seeing this lagginess from two different setups:

At home, I'm running two different PCs on a Comcast high-speed connection. One is an '03 HP and the other is an '07 HP, both on XP.

At work, I'm running an '08 Dell PC on Vista (no, I wasn't given a choice regarding either Dell or Vista) on a T-1 line from a local phone carrier.

Since when?
Is it just F:AT, or other sites?
Is all the time, or just once in a while?
Is it more at laggy at certain times?

Since... I'm not sure, sometime within the last couple of months. It wasn't obvious at first.

F:AT, CBR (a large comic book discussion forum), and especially hotmail.com. I haven't noticed lags with other sites, but possibly they are a bit slower.

It isn't all the time, but the lags are often enough that I've been quite aware of it for a few weeks now.

I haven't noticed F:AT being more laggy at certain times. Hotmail is laggy at obvious times, like after work, during lunchtime, etc. CBR is especially laggy at night, but that site has been like that for a couple of years now.

Schweig! wrote:
" Wow. I was only making a joke about your choice in computer utensils. Won't ever happen again."
What? I can't make a retaliatory dig without using an emoticon? I guess your talents do have a boundary after all!
Bugger, where's the insert a sticking out a tongue emoticon icon when you need one? (Do we blame Brannagyn for that too?)

ubarose wrote:
" Since when?
Is it just F:AT, or other sites?
Is all the time, or just once in a while?
Is it more at laggy at certain times?"
Several days ago.
Just F:AT.
Generally slower than it used to be, but it does vary.
Haven't noticed it being at any particular time.

Oh, I'm on 24Mbps and it really is very close to that speed.

Notahandle wrote:

Occasionally slow page loading here too. But what's been really annoying is trying to cut and paste to quote someone in a reply. It doesn't start when I drag but several characters later.

the site is trying to tell you start using the quote button.

Brannagyn! I couldn't access F:AT for quite a while today!

Asshole!

The Peoples Republic of China have been routing the worlds internet traffic through their servers sporadically over the last several months.

It's me, I'm hacking the site and wont stop until Ken comes back.

moss_icon wrote:
" the site is trying to tell you start using the quote button."
I still think it wastes too much vertical space.