The top ad banner is taking for ever to load. Sometimes I can get here but can't go anywhere. I just got an e-mail from a friend and she's been having trouble too. Today she can't get on. Whats up????? I can't get on to post to the gallery at all in the early evening, but can after 10:00pm. My internet connection is working great everywhere eles!

The site is running fast for me. Maybe it's a DNS problem just in your area? I'll move this to Team Contact.

no it's been creeping for the last two days for me also - in germany on dsl.

The servers are being upgraded and tuned this week as well.

here, soon as the count reaches 1100 users, lame snail time... don't wanna be a pain.. but time to change BBS Software? You've upgraded, tuned etc many times.. Vbullitin works a hellva lot faster, allows users to edit their posts not just delete them, allows multiple images in one post ... basically a lot better than the system we have here now.....

It's been behaving differently over the past 5 days, even excluding the times I can't get on. Before, it would take ages for a page to appear, but when it did, it loaded it all at once. Now, it takes ages for a page to appear but keeps stopping during download - and sometimes it doesn't start again. When loading a picture I get only about 2K / sec on avg.

Remember time zones. I am in England, and I get faster running in my early morning when most Americans are in bed.

Attached Link: http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/tracert.asp

There has been some slow downs of late on this end too...and I am on high speed cable...various times I get weird "too many user" messages on a blank page come up...or "full dump stack, contact administration immediatly"...something like that... Apology if I sound negative...not meaning to be...I wouldn't even say anything about it if not for this post and Jeff's response sounding either like no one is even aware there actually "may" be a problem...or that there couldn't be one on the forum end at all... I'm most positive that the staff here would be very concerned if their membership base is having difficulties participating online here...you may want to at least check to be certain all is okay...even today it is very slow and sluggish in a weird way. This place has a lot of members online during the day peak hours so it is understandable...but the "stack dump" issues leave me baffled and I am sure others also must wonder when this happens and they can't access the community whatsoever. I sincerely hope this helps, Cheers! Peter

Same stuff happening from Adelaide AUS. I'm on adsl and it takes forever...I could easily run to another State and back in the time that the pages take to load :(

Same in S. Korea. I am on high speed cable and I get the same messages as DragonWalk.

stack dump A stack is (among other things) a vertical exhaust pipe. It means that Renderosity's lorry / truck has had to go to have a new exhaust system fitted and therefore it has been off its usual delivery round. :-)

with almost 1000 users logged it runs fine again this morning. :)

I went to PCPITSTOP and it showed nothing untoward. But then again, Rendo is OK at the moment. It went down this morning for a while - I know that - 'cos when I managed to get back on there were only about 400 users on. Sometimes it's OK, other times it's unreachable or unusable. I've had a load of messages too, such as "temp partition maybe full" (from Rendo server, not my machine!), and the other day it thought I was a visitor and I had to log in again. Ah well, as long as it doesn't drop dead completely.

We are still working on bringing the new servers up. This will take some time (Maybe a week or so) as we have to transfer all the data over. Please bear with us. Sorry for the slowdown.

Cool!....Thank you for keeping us informed ;-)

:)