Ah i have solved a problem with opening pages on EO

Yeah but you live in Perth and everything is slow in Perth :-))

Hows your Hip job going?

Richard just a second thought??
Are you running all those machines via a wireless LAN??
If so you may try to reboot your wireless router and see if that helps.

Richard I was just thinking where do you sit with all that computer gear in the troopy lol.
Sharon

John I think the problem is the Server is in QLD.. You know what I mean...

2 desktops run ADSL and I'm a computer gamer.. I reboot... the other two desktops and laptop that in my country ranch are on dial up (and that is slow) but will still sometimes beat this site.

But the main old faithful laptop is LAN, diaup, and next G which is 7G. can still have the problems.

PC in Troopy can run on wireless LAN or Next g card.

They will work it out, but I think there not home. on a little trip. David's little car is in the middle of WA Track ME.

Hip is getting better 4 weeks today it was replaced. on crutches for 6-8 weeks Robyn went back to work yesterday so home alone. Just went for a walk up and down the block. (need a rest now :-)

Cheers
Richard

Sharon

Thats why we drive a Troopy, so we can fit all the thigs in. :-))

Yes its a QLD problem for sure!! ;-))

With Robyn back at work you will just have to do the vacuuming yourself now, good physio for ya ;-)

Just don't fall over and bugger up all the good work done by the doctors.

John

No she can do that,,,,, if we go on any longer without having the name Kev or mark we will be done for chit chat.. LOL

I'm going to take it easy this thing only comes with a 20 year warranty.. :-)

whoops forgot to say the magic word........................... St George.. LOL

Did you look up to see where Davids car was?

I was just looking at all this dust on the keyboard,, I'll have to have a talk to her when she gets home.. ;-))

Cheers

Richard

20 year warranty?? Thats better than a Nissan warranty any day ;-))

Yeah he is out the middle of WA until the 7th October doing some work on the 2010 gathering apparently??

Dust on the keyboard, bugga!! She's a lazy one to miss vacuuming the computer.

"No other websites seem to be effected in this way."

- precisely my experience.

not the only one, yesterday i gave up as it would NOT load!! today it is not bad.

I did what Ozhumvee suggested yesterday and installed Adblock and Flashblock and it fixed the problem for me. Superfast!!
Duke

It is an unfriendly (to computers) website - too much flash, too top heavy. I have Macs, run Safari and Firefox and have the same problems, tough not all the time.

viz

Gave up yesterday too
Ubuntu on Dell Optiplex 745 on Govt internet (fast)
cheers

hi
this eo server has a big problem i've battle for days cleaned out and installed the latest and read all the blogs done every thing possible

the result i'm getting less than dialup speed here and i'm on high speed adsl unlimited
i can click on any -yes any other site- and get instant connection and download but eo site refuses yesterday i went to the kitchen and made a sandwich and cup of coffee and was just walking back into the computor room to see it finally open the thread i had selected
it's worst than my old original dialup system back in 2000 EO is faulty say what you like

Stephen, you are going travelling early October, but of you wait for the browser to refresh, it will be November.

Hi John
Because of the wet weather next week expected, we have decided to cancel travelling over you way and are heading to the Flinders for the first week, then taking the Kayaks up to the Riverland the next week. We hope to head your way again early next year.

Cheers

Stephen

Stephen, you better send me a text as to where you are to be. We are heading to the Eyre Peninsula in the middle of the second week and not decided which way we will head there. May catch up along the way.

All the longer range forecasts for here have been very dry, but to date haven't been fulfilled. Quite the opposite actually

I think David said in a previous post that blocking script will cause the site to do odd things also??

It will limit quite a number of site functions from memory??
Need to do an archive search to find out his comments.

John (Vic),

In terms of viewing the forum there is no need to run the scripts for the page to load correctly. I realise that there are many other functions that need scripts to work.

When I do a TRACERT there are 20 hops with some of them timing out.

While I don't know a lot about how all this works, if there are 20 hops then there a lot of links in the chain that can cause the site to bog down

Dunedigger

He refers to the script issue in this thread.

Thread No 71230

As i said , aspx looks useless . Instead use php instead for web development .

the above post took >3 minutes to load :-((

The 'Green' coloured thingo showed 100% done instantly, but the message at the bottom left was saying: "waiting for www . expl bla bla etc etc"
(sory bout the big technikerl werds)

Maîneÿ . . .

I was going to say that it took so many minutes to open the reply button to the above when the whole thing finally crashed and told me: 'Server Error in '/' Application.

Thread was being aborted.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.]
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +486
System.Web.ApplicationStepManager.ResumeSteps(Exception error) +501
System.Web.HttpApplication.System.Web.IHttpAsyncHandler.BeginProcessRequest(HttpContext context, AsyncCallback cb, Object extraData) +123
System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +379'

Could this be Conficker?

Macs don't get conflicker - I have had similar problems in the past, quite often with the back button or reload.

viz

I meant in the server. Are the EO servers Mac based?

Hi All
All thanks for being so understanding.

Cant help much as I don't have much to do with site content.
But can explain a bit for now. (And this is only my limited understanding at the moment).

Can only suggest that there may still seems be a caching issue and/or a need to update your flashplayer software for now. David is aware of it, thought it was fixed, but needs tweaking. However look at the suggestions in thread 71230

Also to answer a question I saw earlier -The reason the site uses aspx instead of other formats is for the mapping facilities it provides for Trek Notes, Plot swap and other mapping applications.

Re Other sites and speed. Fastest ones are often just a forum and some static information. and rarely need major updating. Whereas a live site like ExplorOz has over 70,000 pages, many of these live and interactive. Including mapping facilities, trek notes, personal profiles blogs and photos etc etc

It is a real challenge (obviously, as not many attempt it) to have a live interactive website where readers can participate and add so much content (e.g. in features like blogs, places mapping, trader and personal profiles etc etc) While this is no excuse for slow speed (as even with all these features as you know - sometimes it loads very fast) it does explain why other sites may be faster at the moment - they just may not offer as many features and live interaction and therefore are easier to maintain.

Yeah i know excuses excuses excuses!

I know this does not help much but at least I may be able to reduce speculation as to the cause of it. I have experienced the slowdowns, it is frustrating when it is slow to say the least.

David will sort this for us.

hope this helps and thanks for your patience (sorry cant answer any queries personally)

Kerry W

i updated my flashplayer to the very lastest several days ago with no change in the EO problem sorry but
keep searching your excuses list