OT: Somthing ODD

[geoschmo]

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.

[AngleWyrm]

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.

[Randallw]

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.

[Fyron]

...what? DSLreports doesn't do stuff like that... It's a highly respected, professional site. It doesn't do drive-by linking.

[GuyOfDoom]

The standard car is designed to get at least 300 miles on a full tank and considering the poor gas mileage(<25mpg) for most american cars they easily have a 15+ gallon tank.

[Randallw]

Well I have never visited it before. I don't know about it. All I know is afterwards I found a bookmark and 2 shortcuts on my desktop. I am sure I did nothing when I visited. I could tell what it was for although I could not readily see how it gave reports. I don't recall clicking on anything just looking at the screen. I am 99.99r sure I didn't do anything but if you say they are legit perhaps somehow I did click on something by mistake or someone in my house came along and went back there.

wait, it's coming back to me now. For ages I have had 2 shortcuts on my desktop for going to a report. I think I picked them up when I tried fixing something a year or two ago. They have long just been text icons, but it seems they were for dslreports and so when I finally visited the site again i got the ico file and so they then had an icon that stood out.

doesn't explain the bookmark, though I can admit it may be the same reason.

[Renegade 13]

AngleWyrm said:
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.

Welcome to the world of dial-up internet!

[GuyOfDoom]

Renegade 13 said:
Welcome to the world of dial-up internet!

Dial-up hurts. I'm reminded of the pain everytime I visit my parents.

[Atrocities]

Dial up should be outlawed..

[capnq]

Atrocities said:
Dial up should be outlawed..

That would restrict access to the Internet to the financially well-off. Broadband is still a luxury. The only reason I'm even considering it is that Verizon's cheapest DSL offers are less than my current dial-up, at least initially.