Poll - Can You Feel The New Server Speed - Please Vote If You Care At All About Bbs
 

Please vote. I need these numbers...

-Wayne

Refine the poll?
 

Hey Wayne, you might want to refine the poll to include which type of browser people are using... perhaps it's very fast for us IE guys with that slight problem on refresh and not so fast for Netscape users. Just a thought. Kim.

i got so tired of buying modems, i get to log on at 14400.

my vote doesn't count.

somewhat faster than before, not lightening speed. logging on via satellite, approx the same speed as a 256 dsl line.

...Plus latency....

I'm not going to vote as I only have a 28800 connection so any speed difference is probably only perception, or a subliminal suggestion that it should be faster therefore it is.

EDIT

OK after more browsing there is defintely a noticable speed increase when opening and changing pages on messages, not so much when going back to the message list.

Cable modem. Very fast already. Hope it helps the less fortunate though.

JG

Im on adsl there does seem to be an improvement,
but I never had a problem with speed as it was.

T-1 no difference. Will check out from home tonight on my dial up.

No difference for me... I'm on cable. SmileWavy Have a nice day.

Lemme click around a while and I'll get back to you.

Our proxy server sucks, I'll check when I get home, first thing...

T-1 with port fast. No difference

Somewhat faster at 56K, but not exactly lightning.

At work (big fat pipe) it seems like there is some latency related to DNS resolution. Overall speed has not improved noticable today from my observation.

I have seen other boards having much more trouble to complete e.g. searches. PP always felt fast compared to others.

ingo

Getting back to you.

Yup! Faster.

Back to clicking around now.....

T-1, no differance

Wayne,

It seems faster than I remember last year, but I dial up at 44K with a modem off Cat 3 lines. I'm already pegging what the redline will give. Maybe next year when we get broadband...

Actually, I increased the compression on the files, so the speed should be most noticeable with the modem users. Should be almost 8-9X faster over a modem with the new compression installed.

-Wayne

Wayne,

T-1 at work and cable at home. It was always pretty fast for me, no noticable difference.

BTW: IE 6.0, have not noticed refresh issues.

No difference noted, I am on a cable modem. It can't get much faster anyway- a click, no waiting, and I am there.
gary

Still seeing up to 10-12 seconds before a page is served.
I'm on cable, on the right coast. The packets may be routed via Turkmenistan.

Guess its a measure of our dedication to the Bird that this kind of response is fine anyway.

Exploder 6.0.2800 - no refresh issues.

Sorry, but I can't tell any difference and I'm on a regular modem (using AOL 6.0).

Hi Wayje,

Yes, I see a big difference in the download times, and I'm on dial-up!! Keep up the good work. I feel like I'm on high speed now.

thanks,

Better
 

Not lightning (as said above) ...but improved !

Mucho Gracias, Amigo!

I can see a marked improvement in the amount of time it takes a page to display. And take back one vote for problems with IE, I was incorrect.

I'm actually quite happy, because I had always thought it seemed a little slow when going page to page. I had been on other sites run with the same software that loaded considerably faster, but now that isn't so. Isn't it a great feeling to find something like that to make an improvement!

1.5 Mb DSL

I'm using a cable modem and already thought your server responded quicker than most sites I get to.

Wayne I use a cable modem it's way fast, and I noticed no significant difference. Thanks for helping out the others with snail connections. I use Netscape 7.0

Cool - I'm glad this didn't blow things up. Someone out there always seems to have a problem when I do an upgrade like this...

-Wayne

I didnt really notice a difference, Im using cable modem...so that dosent help me determine a difference.

56K dial-up here.

Main page loads much quicker than before. But, I did dump VirusScan 6.0 recently. That could be helping too!

IE 6.0.2800.1106 here.

This is what shows up on refresh (IE5.5)

= -1){end = document.cookie.length;} returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(off set, end)); } } return returnvalue; } function loadornot(){ if (get_cookie('popunder')=='') {loadpopunder(); var today = new Date(); var expire = new Date(); expire.setTime(today.getTime() + 86400000); document.cookie = "popunder=yes" + ";expires="+expire.toGMTString(); } } function loadpopunder(){ win2=window.open(popunder); //win2.blur; window.focus(); } loadornot();

When I opened a new IE window, this was left at the top:

t("Your message is "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long."+message); } //-->

Speed enhancement is very noticeable.

speed
 

i'm on cable and i think it's been slower recently

Not cable modem fast but it is alot better. No problems here.

WOW, so this is what a Turbo is like.

I do see a BIG difference.

BEEP BEEP, ZIP, BANG!

Very quick! Every second counts with 56K!:(

Seems about the same w/ IE 6.0. I'm getting the refresh problem though.

So what did you do - install something like mod_gzip?

It's much faster. I use a cable modem. I can really tell the difference in the time to run a "Search". That was one area I distinctly remember as being slow.

ISDN in England. I can see a huge improvement!!!!! Thanks Wayne!!!!