Naturally. I just had the same issue. Yet another bug. Perhaps it's time for some new IT people or a nonpartisan third party to come in and fix this site that was not broken until there was an attempt to "improve" it.

Sorry, but I'm getting bitter.

AD

I did a test download too and it was hovering between 90 kb/s and 100 kb/s. Essentially no change.

I continue to wish you and all of us luck in finding this issue.

AD

By all means keep us in the loop and I'm happy to help, though I'm sure there's little I can do.

Thanks, AD

The ebot issue for me turned out to be something causing Rendo to be black listed and therefore everything from them was going to my spam folder. Check your spam folders and if you see Rendo ebots, simply tell your browser/email server that they are not spam and that should take care of it...or not. Who knows around here anymore. Good luck

AD

Awesome. Thanks for the message.

AD

Nice to hear from you TP! And as always, with a wise and logical way with words.

To the admins, this is a real issue and not isolated to Rod and I. I'm trying to encourage others who are complaining about this issue to post in the forums and not just share the problem through the galleries.

I can't stress enough how this is only an issue with this site and not any other. Why downloads are super fast in the free section and not from the account page is that I guess one would be downloading from another site with the freebies. If freebies are not from off site, then I can only guess that something in the accounts section is bogging things down?

After posting tracert and making inquiries I'm not hearing any explanations. Is it my Comcast or is it a bug in your site or are there any other theories. It is frustrating to repeat that the only issue I have is this site and NOT ANY other website and not being believed. Those who are not having the issue may only use DSL or dial up and therefore not notice a difference. Unfortunately I'm ignorant on html and programming, so I am at the mercy of site IT.

We'd all hate to see Rod leave, so see what you can do to keep him and the rest of us around.

Thanks, AD

He seems to take a break in the summer and I believe he may have mentioned that in one of his last posts a while back. We'll see him in the fall I'm sure.

Looks like it worked.

 I put the tracert image in as an attachment because that was the only way I saw to add this kind of image file. If there's a better way, you can let me know.

Thanks, AD

What you say is logical. But it is odd that many, even if not all, are experiencing slow downloads and at the same speed.

I will do a tracert tonight. I never did it befoe, but will try to follow the instructions above.

Thanks, AD

Sorry. I'm with Rod too. I live in the northeast and quite far from Rod. Others live in various parts of the country and are experiencing the same issue. As I've said, it did not used to be this way so it is very obvious that something has occured quite recently that is the cause. NOT time of day, location or browser.

I suggest you start looking for viruses and malware. If you think you can't get hacked, think again. ANY site can be hacked, ask them over at Cornucopia 3D. I know of three times it happened to them and what was the result? Problems with downloads and slow display of images.

Please look carefully and closely at your site, because my broadband is perfectly fine.

Thanks, AD

Thanks Tina. What you say is true. I should have had an "ah hah" moment earlier, but I checked my spam folder just now and found my missing ebots. Hopefully identifying them as NOT spam will fix this. I'll look through yahoo to see if I have to do anything further.

However, the issue with slow downloads has been ongoing for nearly a week. I even reset my network at home to see if something was up with that, but to no avail. I have normal download speeds on other sites, but here it is abnormally slow. I know for sure it did not used to be this way. Any thoughts or acknowledgements are appreciated.

I hate to sound like yet another whiner, but this is very frustrating and can hamstring buyers and vendors alike. I waited a week before posting a complaint and wanted to see if others were having the same issue and many are. It is not an issue with browsers either. I tried Chrome and Firefox and download speeds for IE, Chrome and FF were all about 90 kb as opposed to the usual XX MBs. That's as bad or worse than dial up.

Thanks for the heads up on the ebots.

Art D.

Downloads exceptionally slow lately. I'm clocking speeds of only 90kbs. Additionally I am not receiving ebots anymore. There is nothing wrong with my email, browser or ISP. How about an announcement that this is being looked into?!!!!

Anyone there?

This is truly becoming unacceptable. I have not receieved any ebots for over 12 hours including no notification of a response to this forum post.

It seems admins and mods are just hiding. What was once a professional site is diminishing quickly. Would not surprise me if this place has been hacked and bugged. Would explain a lot of issues.