Sid

very same thing. I'm just not quick enough.

You got here first!
Bushco give you a heads up?

my special BFEE beeper went off as soon as the post went up.

Sid

OC3 is reserved for the 1%.

Some sites have lots of ads and images which can cause them to load slower. MSNBC takes forever on my computer, and I think it's because of the way the page is formatted.

In Firefox, you can click Tools / Page Info and see the file size of the page. Could be Faux is a smaller file size, or is asking for fewer remote images to load, or has more efficient scripts.

I haven't had any problems with DU, although sometimes it slows down during periods of heavy use. You might try deleting your temporary internet files, cookies, etc., as sometimes a bad cookie can cause problems. You'll have to enter all of your user names and passwords again, however.

A month or so ago, msn.com wouldn't load for me at all, just a white page. Others were reporting it as well. Deleting msn cookies allowed the page to load properly during that session, but I would have to delete their cookies again next time I got online. After a few days, msn apparently fixed the problem as it hasn't happened since.

It is the ISP

I could not believe how fast fox loaded with 20 images.

Same with NYT. Daily mail, etc.

DU and most other sites may not even finish until a few minutes have passed. Checking out the ISP page, one sees they have a 4 tiered filtering service. The ISPs are working on setting limits on which websites can and can not be accessed. That is no conspiracy, they actually offer you the options to filter the web right there on their own pages through their system.

The last time this happened the ISP tech fixed it with a few clicks on his end. That's what his email told me. So that tells me the ISP is the problem. The days of the web being free may be about over. I can see why they'd want to filter DU, et al.

with DU. Maybe it has something to do with the world-wide slow down from the cyber war between a spam group and an anti-spam group that was reported in the news 2 days ago?

I have had this problem for 2 weeks now.

I think we are being filtered. Fox loads in seconds.
This reply page right here took two minutes to load.
Something is not right. I wonder how many others have surfed away from a slooooow loading DU over the last few...

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last night, but as I was doing so, the page loaded at the last second. That was on my laptop. Am on my phone right now and page loading ranges from immediate to decent. There must be an answer, but I don't seem to have it.

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Now I'm on a tiny little local network and experience similar problems. I think the problem is not with your individual provider as much as those Very big networks have been co-opted by the security state and their own self interest by pushing destinations that are willing to pay to play.

And if you're buddies, like with fox and NYT.

Remember a few years back when ISPs were talking about charging some big sites a fee to be on their network?

As one that builds and actually understands how the Internet works, no...there are no "filters"

"a tech with Very big company emailed me back and said he tweaked the controls"

LOL

And others, like DU, take minutes?

so I'm thinking it's your service provider that's the problem.

Try a speed test, you may have a ping or latency problem or just a slow connection.

Here's mine on an Android tablet connected to my home WI-FI. I'm supposedly paying for 40 down 20 up kbps speed but that never happens.

I recently found that the search-conduit.com toolbar (AKA Visual Bee, and many others) had snuck into my system YET AGAIN. It steals bandwidth, traces everything you do, redirects you to sites you don't want, and otherwise fucks with you in order to trick you into buying their crapware, which I hear is really a non-working uninstaller for their own hijacker and performance-inhibiting files.

This particular little weasel evades all of my antivirus and antispyware, somehow installs itself, possibly with certain free software or through advertisements, is apparently modifiable so that all sorts of nasty people can use it, and is harder to kill than Merle the zombie.

and you have to get here via other servers.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

I also did ESPN and that was the longest, about 8 seconds.

Try the free version of Advanced SystemCare http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare/3000-2086_4-10407614.html?tag=sideBar;downloadLinks

Be-careful when installing, you have to make sure you don't add on their search tool bar.

thanks

this happened to me before some years ago.