Handstitched Report post Posted May 26, 2020 I occasionally get' this site cannot be reached' or, 'LW.net too too long to respond' etc etc. Pages , emoticons and other parts of the site take a while to load . I know my ' pooter' is old-ish,( um.... XP.. goggle nice & shiny .....don't laugh !!! ) all was good and going quick until about a week or so ago.Did a quick ' service' ,disabled this , that, cleared this 'n' that', defrag etc. , but no change. Every other site I go on, order stock , supplies etc. works just fine. Perhaps more creative peeps are coming onto LW during covid? Which is a good thing HS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Northmount Report post Posted May 26, 2020 Depending on your internet service provider and the network loading, you may find periods in the day where response is slow and times out. So many people streaming movies and such. Evening time here, things can slow to a crawl, even though I have a fiber connection. So far I haven't seen any problems loading pages here, and I'm usually online most every day. You might try different browsers. Chrome might be the best for you where you are running XP. I still have an XP notebook, but never use it on the net. It is dedicated to a flat bed scanner that won't work on anything newer than XP. I use both Win 10 and Win 7. I don't see any real difference in speed between them. I generally use Firefox, but there are some websites that just won't behave on it, so use Chrome for them. Tom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handstitched Report post Posted June 6, 2020 @Northmount I think I have found out what the issue is. Nothing to do with LW at all , sorry about that . Its my ISP: Without naming names, this is the info I got from my ISP: "2020/05/27 03:04:55 PM WST Our partner carrier has confirmed sub-marine cable fault. Tentative ETA for repair ship is July 2020." And it includes Western Australia. O'h dear, .....it'll be a long wait. " Patience grasshopper " Even my own ISP website is slow . HS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Northmount Report post Posted June 6, 2020 Sorry to hear that. Makes waiting a week for land based repairs seem insignificant! Wonder how much traffic they are able to move to satellite communications? I recall another submarine cable fault a few months ago where all cable communication was cut. They moved to satellite but had a very limited channel, so only telephone communication was available for some time. Tom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
