Lagging on the forum site

[MoMoll]

Am I the only one experiencing a lot of lagging when using the forum and the guide? It seems to take forever to enter into some of the topics and when switching to review something on the guide.

Before you ask, this is a brand new Vaio computer with nothing else on it but the sims and internet connection.

[amyrose]

I've never experienced any lag. What browser are you using? I use Google Chrome, which so much faster than Internet Explorer.

[MoonsAreBlue]

I've never experienced any lag. What browser are you using? I use Google Chrome, which so much faster than Internet Explorer.

Yes, I've seen a huge improvement in loading times since I've switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome.

[grimsoul]

I don't have any lag on this site. It always loads fast. I'm using Firefox.
I use to lag on the official site and forums until I made some adjusts to some settings in Firefox to speed it up.

[Hosfac]

I use Firefox exclusively, and I don't often experience lag here.  And when I do, it's the result of my router. 

[MoMoll]

Loading hasn't been a problem. But, often when I want to switch from the forum to review the guide, I get stuck. I don't have this problem with other internet sites, so I thought it might be that this site has become so popular it has an overload. Now, this evening (here in France it's evening), it's working fine. However, this morning, I waited forever to download the babble thread, and when I wanted to post a pic in reply to something, I was stuck.

Guess, I'll just have to use the forum in the evenings or late at night!

[Pam]

I'm moving this to the Technical Help board and flagging it for Carl to review.

[Carl]

Could you better describe stuck? Is the screen blank, does the page load partially, or any other descriptors you could provide would be helpful. I'm not seeing any issues with performance as far as the servers are concerned. They are chugging right along without any weird spikes. Now, if you didn't pass 50 posts ages ago I would assume it was an ad freezing things up. I'm curious what your status bar says when this happens. Internet Explorer typically shows a bar at the bottom, other browsers have to have this unhidden. It would say what server the browser was trying to contact while it was hanging.

I do know of a hanging issue sometimes when posting, as the server talks to the database server to send the post data. I am not entirely sure why that happens but it hasn't been so bad as to cause serious issues for anyone.

[MoMoll]

It just sticks sometimes. For instance when I post, it'll stick for a bit and then finally post. Or, when I go to log-out it sticks, before logging out. I'm going to check with my internet server to see if that could be the issue.

[Pam]

It just sticks sometimes. For instance when I post, it'll stick for a bit and then finally post. Or, when I go to log-out it sticks, before logging out. I'm going to check with my internet server to see if that could be the issue.

How long does it "stick"?

[xFezIsAFreakx]

I get this quite often: The screen partially loads and stays that way, and I have to refresh it, sometimes multiple times, to see the whole thread. Doesn't happen on any other site, I'm on Chrome. I'm going to be swapping to Firefox soon though, so hopefully it'll work then.

[MoMoll]

As Fez said it seems to start to work and then sticks. I haven't monitored the exact time, but more than before. It happens most on large threads. Some stories and the babble thread. I think they may need to be cleaned out a bit from very old replies.

[xFezIsAFreakx]

As Fez said it seems to start to work and then sticks. I haven't monitored the exact time, but more than before. It happens most on large threads. Some stories and the babble thread. I think they may need to be cleaned out a bit from very old replies.

It doesn't happen to me just on old threads, even small threads are affected.

I tried this on my other laptop (the one I use for simming) and it happens there too, using Chrome. Still yet to download Firefox but I do really like Chrome and I didn't really want to change.

[MoMoll]

I bought this laptop just for the sims, so I keep other functions to a minimum; but (not always) I have a lag. My internet server said it's not from the internet, because this is a new building with the highest level of banwidth (or whatever they call it) The server is also my husband's company and we get excellent service.
Like I said, it's not always; but, when it happens it makes me wonder if I'm posting the same thing twice or not.