My office has a high-speed net. con. and it was taking a while to load pages and post replies around 5:00pm yesterday. I had a similar issue going on when I tried use SCN.net forums from home.
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Could it be contention problems?
Don't understand really what you mean, contention where? My exchange / ISP if so then it would show in fluctuation response to packets.
I've found the speed fluctuates - sometimes I can be all over the site in seconds, other times I'm waiting for ages for a post to go up.
I always thought it was just lots of users on at once, but I shall look at DNS settings. (it has been better recently, on NTL with my houssemate looking after router maintenance rather than me at home)
off-topic:
Seen it before, but love your sig Tam
Don't mind if i copy, do you?
you have PM
Nah - my guides? slowing things down? Don't put the blame on me matey!
Its actually got slower here now. I blame people with large pictures in their signature
I think i'll rule the forum database out of the issue, and call it server utilisation issue as i'm finding the "knowledge base" and gallery equally sluggish, therefore i assume that these are run on a different database than the fourms (although on the same server) so its more than likely overall server performance.
it's possible
however, that won't be an issue shortly