FlyinFlynn Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Slow for me too 10:30 CET 24/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Holland 2 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin b Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Funny how it always seems to happen at the end of the week and over the weekend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Stephenson Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Could it be that someone is diverting server capacity to mine for bitcoins, just asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Forum is OK today but troublesome yesterday evening. The main forum problem I have is that when I post anything it often takes 5 or 10 minutes to accept my writing - just says saving and goes pale, eventually including the words after the 5 or 10 minutes. Am I alone in having this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Not seen that myself for several years and on the previous forum software. I was unable to log in for a while yesterday. I wonder if some problems are internet provider specific? I’m with Vodaphone now but only changed from BTInternet a few months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickw Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 I had problems at times both last night and this morning but OK at the moment, and I am on BTinternet. Problems were on both laptop - Win10/Firefox, and on my phone - Android/Chrome. The only obvious common factor seems to be the website. Dick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 My posting above was submitted at 15.01 today but not accepted by the forum until 15.11 -so 10 minutes later. If nobody else has this problem maybe it's my computer or the Moderators are vetting my replies first! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 I can dismiss the second idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin b Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 I'm all ok now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Dorricott 1 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Still slow 5 minutes this Sunday before it let me in ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Martin- I was of course joking about Moderators! But the problem still exists - my comments are still not being accepted quickly. I posted a couple of paragraphs and it took 5 minutes or more, I opened a new Tab and posted 1 line in another thread and it accepted straight away. I went back to the first Tab and the previous item was not accepted for a couple more minutes. Is it my computer and if so what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Stephenson Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 KC, It's not your PC, It's definitely this website. It happens only here and with a number of different devices with different operating systems and browsers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 I’d like to help diagnose this but both my laptop and mobile posts are working normally from a variety of browsers. Perhaps you could detail what devices and browsers you’re using? Assume you have a standard ISP connection in the UK and aren’t using a VPN - not that these should matter but I’m just thinking aloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Good it's not just me! I use an old Dell desktop with Windows 10, Firefox 122.0.1 ( it wants me to update to 123 but its not been done yet ) BT broadband via wireless shared with my wifes Win11 desktop and HP printer. Never any problems with any other website except this week Tesco wouldn't recognise my machine so we used my wife's desktop instead. The problem seems to occur when I take some time modifying my posting - correcting for spelling, eliminating any ambiguity, clarifying details - taking some few minutes to ensure it reads correctly. Being especially careful when advising newcomers takes another few extra minutes maybe checking back to see what they actually wrote and what gear they bought. . So taking 10 or 15 minutes to compose and check before hitting 'Submit reply' all done whilst online and logged in. But when I just post a line or two without any correction it works instantly. That's the problem and it's been like that for some months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Would you believe it it worked instantly just now even though I took many minutes to compose - it took ages to find what whether I was on Win 10 or 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyinFlynn Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Seems ok now for me at the moment too 15:24 CET 25/2. Win 11 PC & VPN Manchester Opera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Watkins Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Test test few 14.28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyinFlynn Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 just uploaded a bigish video file to the sandbox in about 5 seconds so whatever the problem is it isn't happening right now. (at least for me!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike T Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 (edited) On 24/02/2024 at 15:15, kc said: Am I alone in having this problem? Nope. I started a thread on this topic in July last year (23)! Plus ca change... Edited February 25 by Mike T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Stephenson Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 This site is flaky again, it seems that it's happening on weekend evenings. Threads taking minutes to load or even timing-out. Will we ever get an explanation as to what is causing this? Could it be that bandwidth is being subverted by the host to some other activity deemed more important than boys with toys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Holland 2 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 I had the same problem earlier but working ok now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryW Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 No problems here at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Couldn't get onto the site at all in the latter part of yesterday evening, just kept timing out and returning a Gateway error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Colman Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 I had the same error message yesterday evening. Site was reluctant to start up a couple of hours ago too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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