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Posted: 3/2/2002 12:32:42 AM EDT

At home is fine. At work, when I try to pull the site up, I get the connection, get the black screen, get the top line (Membership/EE?...) and the blue bar gauge at the bottom moves to about 90%, then nothing. The little window in the upper right indicates it's still churning around trying to finish, but nothing ever happens.

Running Internet Explorer.
Thanks

Do I remember that there is another format of this site w/no pictures that you can pull up at work, or was that just a joke/suggestion/leftover false memory from an Alien Abduction?

Posted: 3/2/2002 8:00:32 AM EDT

[#1]

That's strange... make sure you're running ie 5.5 or greater just to be sure it's not something old... It may be getting blocked, but I'm not sure I've seen a partial blocking like that.

You can try the other domain name [url]http://www.jobrelatedstuff.com[/url] but I dont recall if that's active... heehee

[i]Yup it is!

and you can go to the AK, HG, and 50 sites by putting the subdomain names in from. (ie [url]hg.jobrelatedstuff.com[/url] )

]=)
[/i]

Posted: 3/5/2002 8:01:16 AM EDT

[#2]

I'm having the same problem today and yesterday. Never had it before. About 90% loads very fast. The last 10% takes @5 min. At home no problem, at work---slow! I tried from the mirror sight, no go either.
HELP!

Posted: 3/5/2002 10:17:31 AM EDT

[#3]

Same same. Home fine, work no. Mirror dos not help.

Posted: 3/5/2002 10:21:59 AM EDT

[#4]

Had the same problem with CNN.com until someone posted the link. I saved the link and now its working fine. Dunno what was up.

Posted: 3/5/2002 6:09:04 PM EDT

[#5]

GB,
What kind of questions do I need to ask the Tech guys that set up and run the network where I work?

I have a feeling they did something with the firewalls or something else. I noticed that gunsamerica is not not available to me either. This is a on and off problem also. So, maybe they did something that is causing the sight to slow down at the end of the load? Thanks for your recommendations and help.
guns762

Posted: 3/6/2002 7:38:09 AM EDT

[#6]

It sounds like your companies are trying to filter sites and content. I can't explain why your pages would load to ~90% and then stall or stop.

During the day the site is faster with the traffic being much less than it is in the evenings, so if anything the site should be up quickly and not stall.

All I can say is try the backdoor domain and see if the filters effect that as well, if the slow downs are still there it may be a network problem in your office (it would happen with other sites as well though, so keep that in mind) or it may be a filtering issue where it's catching some keyword(s) and then stalls before completion!

Posted: 3/6/2002 10:52:06 AM EDT

[#7]

I talked to one of the tech guys here. He said no new filters. He did say that we go throught ATT, and that they run a filter every so often. This has never happend before, unlike the on again off again use of gunsamerica. This is the only sight that causes this type of problem. I just get a "forbidden" page for gunsamerica. I'm frustrated!

Posted: 3/7/2002 5:53:40 PM EDT

[#8]

This is the slowest I've ever seen this site.

I' at home and on both the laptop and desktop it's been taking forever to open up the forums. Then they are not fully opening or timing out trying to load. It took me over 10 min to make one stinking post on the LEGP forum!!! If I did not want a LGP so bad I'd say the hell with it and check back in a couple of days to see if things have improved any.

Don't know what the problem is but no other web site I've visited today has acted the same.

Posted: 3/7/2002 8:16:53 PM EDT

[#9]

I was doing work tonight on the servers, so things were running through half the connection for about an hour or so...

As for the page loading, it seems a few others are having the issue, so I am looking into it...

Posted: 3/7/2002 8:32:29 PM EDT

[#10]

I have noticed things running pretty slow as well, and I have a fairly fast connection (cable). Worst times seem to be evenings and early in the morning.

Posted: 3/8/2002 10:52:15 AM EDT

[#11]

Thanks GB,
I appreciate all the work you do to make this sight the best there is.

Posted: 3/8/2002 12:01:08 PM EDT

[#12]

Hopefully the connection issues will resolve next week as we're hopeful the phone company can get us ours lines.

As for the loading, this could be a byproduct of that, otherwise it may be a port issue with your firewall/company. I'll add a dns entry for it, but the ads right now are being served from a diff port and MAY be the problem!

]=)

Posted: 3/15/2002 5:12:43 AM EDT

[#13]

GoatBoy,
I'm having the same problem as GLOCKshooter, at home its fine but at work I get the black screen and header and then it takes forever to load the rest of the page ( 10 minutes ). I'm not aware of any new filters. All other gun forums load fine.

Thanks for looking into it.
William

Posted: 3/15/2002 8:07:43 AM EDT

[#14]

I noticed that there are no adds showing up when I access the sight from work. I just have the dark gry bar across the top where the adds usually are. Maybe this is why it takes so long to load the last bit of info?????? Hope this helps you solve the problem.

Posted: 3/15/2002 10:05:30 AM EDT

[#15]

Like I said, I think it's the port the ads are loaded from. I am trying to get some time to fix it... just been busy with work stuff.

Posted: 3/22/2002 6:29:02 PM EDT

[#16]

Goatboy,
I know your a busy man but, I'm going through AR15 withdrawals. I do about 90% of my AR15 viewing at work and with it taking 10 minutes to load a page it kinda puts a kink in my viewing. Thanks for the help.

William

Posted: 3/24/2002 1:11:13 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I do about 90% of my AR15 viewing at work and with it taking 10 minutes to load a page it kinda puts a kink in my viewing. William

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I'm tellin' your boss! [}:)]

Posted: 3/25/2002 12:55:04 PM EDT

[#18]

Bump! Goatboy, I have the same problem at work, have had it for several weeks. 1-2 minutes to load a page, even if just hitting "back". All other sites have no problems.

Thanks for looking into it.

Posted: 3/26/2002 10:55:26 AM EDT

[#19]

Should finally have time to address this on the coming weekend... cross your fingers!

]=)

Posted: 6/16/2002 3:37:17 PM EDT

[#20]

Still an issue. Only visit from home now.

Posted: 6/16/2002 5:37:09 PM EDT

[#21]

Make sure you've reloaded all the pages, I suggest nuking your web browser cache to be safe. The ads were moved off port 9999 and so this shouldn't be an issue.

Make sure you've got the latest IE too... it's a free download if you need to upgrade.

Other than that, it shouldn't be the site, unless it's your connection to the site that is slow. [=(]