site is very slow

site is very slow...why? (in Korea South)

anyway, doomworld Forever!!

vezita said:

site is very slow...why? (in Korea South)

anyway, doomworld Forever!!

Uh... Perhaps it could have something to do with the little fact that the server is located in AMERICA, which means that you're farther away and have a weaker connection?

Yeah, this was once a problem for everyone. I remember a few years (ok almost a decade actually) accessing a site in Eastern Europe could take 20 minutes or longer.

Nonetheless, I think Vezita's onto something. The main site's loading times are slower than usual for me, too (the forums work just fine). I live in Canada and have never had a problem with Doomworld's loading times before. I imagine this will solve itself, but still, it's a bit frustrating.

Its pretty fast here no problems for me, its even faster then newdoom dunno where that server is.
Probably America aswell.

Yeah recently the main site and /idgames have been slow for me too. The forums are fine though.

server-us.imrworldwide.com (208.184.36.73), a server to which Doomworld's advertising scripts attempt to connect, is not responding at all. Then Firefox refuses to render the front page or /idgames until the connection times out for some reason. I think it's to do with the page layout needing to know the size of the thing its trying to load so it can render everything in the right place. The forums don't need this information to render, although they still try to connect to that site.

I fixed it rather heavy-handidly by blocking outgoing packets to that IP address in my firewall. There's probably other ways you could work round it. Firefox extensions or even something in about:config

AdBlock and AdBlock Filterset.G updater works wonders on my end. Front page loads in a snap.

Craigs said:

Uh... Perhaps it could have something to do with the little fact that the server is located in AMERICA, which means that you're farther away and have a weaker connection?

I live in Australia and everything is fine for me, so there is no need to draw to conclusions.

Main site was slow for me a few days ago but it is fine now though.