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#177735 13-Nov-2008 10:34

Nope, this is not the site. It could be something with international links, since we have some Google scripts there. I would say your browser is waiting on something else... If you right-clic and select View Source and can see the whole source to </HTML> then we served the page - some other host is causing the problem.

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#177737 13-Nov-2008 10:50

seems to be OK on IE but firefox I keep on getting kicked off.

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#177740 13-Nov-2008 10:53

Try adding the following line to your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 view.atdmt.com

It seems this atdmt host server is timing out for some New Zealand connections. I won't be getting ads from them anymore.

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#177751 13-Nov-2008 11:14

OK on firefox now, thanks MF

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#177755 13-Nov-2008 11:36

On TC here as well and was noticing slow downs but yeah, soon as I threw in the hosts entry its like Im browsing the site over the LAN

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#177760 13-Nov-2008 11:50

Telstra here and I was timing out at an iconz server for much of yesterday.

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#177851 13-Nov-2008 19:43

I'm having real problems viewing the site as well. I have tried using firefox (unusable) and now IE which is running but at a snails pace. It isn't my internet connection (VF) because I can open up other tabs and browse other sites normally, local and international.

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#177852 13-Nov-2008 19:45

Interesting. But I don't see the same happening here. Perhaps there's some problem with International traffic on your side? Have you tried to add the line I mentioned before to your hosts file?

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#177854 13-Nov-2008 19:53

I just cleared the cache again and it's back to normal.

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#177855 13-Nov-2008 19:59

Spoke to soon. I navigated back to the main index and tried to selct the vf forum and it's locked up again. (Firefox).

IE is still working but as above very slowly.

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#177856 13-Nov-2008 20:00

I've asked before but you have not confirmed: have you added the line to the hosts file as I indicated in my previous post?

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#177857 13-Nov-2008 20:06

How do you add a line to the host file?

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#177858 13-Nov-2008 20:07

run notepad, open \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add that line. Save and reboot. Sometimes reboot is not needed but the old IP address maybe cached.

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#177859 13-Nov-2008 20:12

It wouldn't let me save the file or overwrite the existing host file?

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#177860 13-Nov-2008 20:24

You must be an administrator on your machine.

I have paused the ads now so in ten minutes it will stop showing and you won't need to change the hosts file.

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