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Well she finally came back and told me that it is a system problem on their end and they will call me back later. At least now I can access my banking site and see how much money I don't have left to spend. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif Cost me $55.00 to fill up yesterday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif We poor folks don't have that kind of money.

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Isn't Fyron in Calif?

Top News

" Internet clogged on West Coast today due to something called FQM UNLIMITED" Details at 11

Or else CA is now an island.

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$55? What are you driving, a tank?

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$55 USD would maybe fill 1 1/2 of the 2 fuel tanks on my vehicle. Any medium/large sized vehicle easily can eat that much per fill up.

Sorry to derail your thread AT, but I honestly had nothing productive to add http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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I drive a four door sedan and my last few fillups have been over $40. That's not far from $55. My car's no econo-box, but it's not a tank by any means.

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$55/$3.50 per gallon = 15.7 gallons
Well within the capacity of many ordinary vehicle fuel tanks.

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I get around 320 miles to a full tank. Its a Nissan XE 4x4 v6. Very good truck. Have had it ten years plus now and its been very good to me.

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The word from Qwest was that they were working on something in Denver and that may have caused intermittent connectivity issues in areas. Well at least now I know. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I had a heck of a time trying to get GameDev.net last night, and it was still dragging it's heals this morning. The top graphic would pop up right away (cached probably)

25~30 seconds later, the ad banner would come up, but still no forum pages. Another 25~30 seconds goes by, and finally the page loads. Happened every time.

My guess is that there is one main advertizing agency that does banners, and they crashed. The result? web sites timing out on an ad banner.

Moral: Don't put 'pre-load' or whatever into your web pages, you might make your customers wait on someone else's problems.

That's my guess anyway.

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I wouldn't trust that dslreports.com site. I checked it for you yesterday and today I find two shortcuts and a bookmark for it on my computer. I have what I believe is a resonable amount of Anti virus so I don't know how it got on.