Help please, slow website or me????

[BRL]

Hi all. I have tried to get on a website that is pretty slow at loading pages. I have tried with Opera and IE. Could someone please click on the site and tell me if it takes ages for a page to load or is it just me? (ps, on opera it only loads the page up to 16%)

http://www.bps.org.uk/

Cheers!

[BOAC]

Loads ok for me - you sure you are not imagining it?

[frostbite]

Took about 20 secs. (on dialup).

[FJJP]

Nope, all works fine at normal speed on broadband.

[BLUE SKY THINKER]

3 seconds @1Mb.

[terryJones]

Only about 10 seconds, using Firefox

[Tex37]

Very slow on Portuguese "Broadband" takes about a minute

[Globaliser]

Site's completely dead for me.

Are too many Prooners testing it, all at once?

[FunkyMunky]

Doesn't work at all for me, 10Mib blueyonder, not that it makes much difference if the site is dead

[rotorcraig]

Doesn't work for me either

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The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.

[BOAC]

I suspect their web site manager will be so shocked by the recent 'hits' he will be looking for a good psychiatrist.

[BRL]

Thanks for your time chaps. It must be something on my computer here, it eventually loaded a page this evening using IE but it took about an hour to load. All other web sites work ok but not this. Odd....

Thanks again.

[DBTL]

The poor webmaster probably will not even notice if you PING his site:
Start - Run ping www.bps.org.uk

(You may have to tell your firewall PING is safe to run)

I think he's searching for a new hard drive subsystem right now, hope he has actually made the backups.

[Globaliser]

Originally Posted by BRL

Thanks for your time chaps. It must be something on my computer here, it eventually loaded a page this evening using IE but it took about an hour to load. All other web sites work ok but not this.

It's running now for me, and loading at the speed of light (I have broadband of some description here in the office). So maybe they were just having server problems yesterday.

[Big_Johnno]

Maybe it is setup that way on purpose so you think you are going crazy. Then you will call them for a referral.
John

[BRL]

Hi all. Just an update. Looks like it is something here as ebay takes all day to load now, all other sites work and load ok so it must be something here.

[P.Pilcher]

It wouldn't load at all for me when I tried it yesterday, but this afternoon it loaded in about 5 seconds and at last therefore, I understand the humour in BOAC's post yesterday.

P.P.

[BRL]

May I just add it wasn't for me by the way, 'twas for a girl I know called Nikki.......

[The African Dude]

BRL,

I've got a horribly slow laptop, and when using IE it's almost unbearable. But I've started using Mozilla Firefox as a web browser, and with that the site you linked to opened in a couple of seconds on broadband. I tried it with IE and it took about half a minute.

Good luck
Andy

[BRL]

Thank you. I have just downloaded Mozila Firefox and the problem remains. Both web sites take hours to appear. I can only think my firewall may be doing something