It seems to bog down on me at specific times of the day, every day (during the week, and Sunday Nights) when traffic seems heaviest. During the noon hour, Mid afternoon, and mid evening. The rest of the World Wide Web seems to work fine during these times.

Doesn't actually feel like transport latency to me. On other ports, the machine responds pretty quickly, even when web services are sluggy.

Rick, Bill, Hal, fellas... if you accept donations for hardware, shoot me an email. I love this place. Thanks for making it available.

bv

Totally random. I tried to post about this issue several times, but gave up as I couldn't get on the site when I had issues. Though, I'm really glad it's not just my 'puter.

Its has been slow everyday for the last 5 months for me.

I'm having trouble posting as well, mostly with double posts.

never had a prob tsl 3

def. a server problem........can't handle the traffic...........means the site is growing

mornings are the best for me, around 7 cst in the evening, forget it

OK..Yes, the speed slowdown is a direct result of our popularity. We are working on increasing our bandwidth to support more users/vistors. This will result in us spending even more than we do now to provide the best BMX website on the internet to our members. We are raisning funds to help us do this. The donations from the decals we just completed are going to this as well as any proceeds we see from the soon to be released T shirts. So if you want to help us out, get in on both of those deals. Also, we have a Banner over there <------- for site support, If at anytime you feel like supporting us, feel free to use that link.

I too experience slow periods here so I know what you folks are going through. We'll get it done asap. Please hang in there. We know.....

[ November 14, 2006, 09:14 AM: Message edited by: Pseudolus ]

I've had slow performance on this site during what I'd consider high-traffic times, like lunchtime or after 4 pm, but this site is not exclusive to that. It's more due to high bandwidth use at these times I think.
I'm not sure what we are running here at my work, but it's fast. Almost as fast as the T1 connection my friend has at his disposal at his work. But it does drop off at high traffic times...

Thanks, Hal! I know you guys are doing everything you possibly can do to make this a home for all of us. I will be donating as soon as I can.

Hmmm, sounds like what I described. I am anxious to a get shirt and/or hoodie! Thanks for the explanation Hal, I am loyal to the site and wouldn't give it up for a minute.

213 DAYS

Sounds like they are on it! Cool!

Yep, Sunday night, forget it, even with T1. It's not the download, rather the uploads.

In all brutal honesty, I think I actually joined a year before I re-joined. When I had dial-up it was futile, and I got frustrated and gave up. Point being, it may grow way further in popularity if those who still have the older tech. had a better chance to get to see the pages.

Bandwidth. The number of lanes on the highway a serer can use to upload everyone's requests. Everyone with high speed lines can use it up pretty quickly and make a traffic jam. Those with "Dia*-U*", take the few bits that are scraps.

There are a lot of avitars and pics to gather and load on these pages as well. Limiting the avitars size recently was a wise move.

I've never had anything so important to say, that it couldn't wait a bit....lol

More band width= more money. Copy that.

I'm going to donate $$$, but I'm also very anxious to purchase the VBMX Holiday Essentials giftpack: decal, calendar, black t-shirt.

Paypal sent.Thanks VBMX.

Seems to load slow most of the time, but my biggest complaint is the multiple notification of replies to posts.

Most other forums I use only send you only one notification when a new post has been made on that thread, even if there are multiple posts since the first unread.

Fixing this little issues would be much appreciated, I typically see 30 notifications a day when I get home and turn on the machine - even if there have only been half that many posts.

Keep up the great work, and thanks for having the site.

Ya, I've been very frustrated of late trying to get on in the evening but never complained because no one else had said anything. Thanks for the info Hal.

Paypal sent. Thanks again for everything.