very very slow
very very slow
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Scraggles

Original Poster:

7,619 posts

253 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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keep getting this

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.pistonheads.com.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.


all the other sites work well



maybe time to turn adblock back on for this site ?

preview took about 1-2 mins to come up frown

FasterFreddy

8,577 posts

266 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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It's not just you...

tmk2

708 posts

237 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Keep getting "unable to find Page" over here

Scraggles

Original Poster:

7,619 posts

253 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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adblock plus is now enabled and suddenly it works really well

I do like to support the site by looking at the adverts, but not when it makes looking at the site akin to dialup on a really bad day....

when it is fixed, might be worth disabling adblock for the site...

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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Scraggles said:
adblock plus is now enabled and suddenly it works really well

I do like to support the site by looking at the adverts, but not when it makes looking at the site akin to dialup on a really bad day....

when it is fixed, might be worth disabling adblock for the site...
I don't think it is related to the adverts this time, we performed an upgrade to the site recently which is having a few teething troubles which are manifesting themselves as temporary slowdowns of the entire site.

Can you try disabling ad-block and see if it slows down again just to confirm or disprove my theory?

Eric Mc

125,609 posts

294 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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Mr Will said:
Scraggles said:
adblock plus is now enabled and suddenly it works really well

I do like to support the site by looking at the adverts, but not when it makes looking at the site akin to dialup on a really bad day....

when it is fixed, might be worth disabling adblock for the site...
I don't think it is related to the adverts this time, we performed an upgrade to the site recently which is having a few teething troubles which are manifesting themselves as temporary slowdowns of the entire site.

Can you try disabling ad-block and see if it slows down again just to confirm or disprove my theory?
Aha - those "upgrades" and "improvements" so beloved of computer tecchies which actually make things work worse smile

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

290 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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It's bloody slow here in Devon!

Justayellowbadge

37,057 posts

271 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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Will, I did tell you outsourcing the upgrades to Mclaren would backfire.

Eric Mc

125,609 posts

294 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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Red Bull's aren't much better.

Scraggles

Original Poster:

7,619 posts

253 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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seems ok now, even with adblock plus disabled the adverts show as blank patches

put the url into opera and get offer about eyesight

clicked on the advert, sends me to http://www.clk4.com/default/index.html

Dear Internet User,

You are receiving this error page due to a problem with
the configuration of the advertisement javascript or html
coding. This error is isolated to a specific site or site
subsection. We apologize for any inconvience caused.

opera is as is installed, no addons at all

on the thread labelled

why are all my photos in my manage ads but don't show

the advert is a string of numbers across the page,

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...


Jollyclub

1,905 posts

275 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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Each time it freezes it seems to be tranferring data to and from cdn.amgdgt.com

no idea what this is..

i googled it and got several pages about advertisement targeting/smart online advertising..

Don't tell me PH is in allegiance with the evil that is Phorm..??


Scraggles

Original Poster:

7,619 posts

253 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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tempted to get a hosts file and drop cdn.amgdgt.com and haymarket.com into it smile

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Scraggles said:
seems ok now, even with adblock plus disabled the adverts show as blank patches

put the url into opera and get offer about eyesight

clicked on the advert, sends me to http://www.clk4.com/default/index.html

Dear Internet User,

You are receiving this error page due to a problem with
the configuration of the advertisement javascript or html
coding. This error is isolated to a specific site or site
subsection. We apologize for any inconvience caused.

opera is as is installed, no addons at all

on the thread labelled

why are all my photos in my manage ads but don't show

the advert is a string of numbers across the page,

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Working in Opera here, is it still doing it there?

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Jollyclub said:
Each time it freezes it seems to be tranferring data to and from cdn.amgdgt.com

no idea what this is..

i googled it and got several pages about advertisement targeting/smart online advertising..

Don't tell me PH is in allegiance with the evil that is Phorm..??
No, we have nothing to do with Phorm, but we do use an external company to fill up any adverts which our sales team haven't managed to fill with car related adverts.