BaronSchwab

Thank you Marc and all who worked for this great speed change. This new hosting is GREAT!!!! No speed complants now.

mkranitz

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My feelings are hurt! [&o]

As Marc's partner, I also enjoy when praise is heaped upon me!

Michael

GrnBrt

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Ok Micheal, whoever you areway to go!!!![>:][>:][>:]

R T W

This is great Thanks Marc & Micheal Job well done

aimmaintenance

Hey guys can you fix my dial up connection too..
I figured I'd even be faster now but I guess not.
I figure I'm up to 20 minutes per meg now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deadeye

Try a hardware based modem, preferably US Robotics. I bet you are rural or in a small town eh? Man, these software modems they are installing into 99% of the computers nowadays are the absolute worst quality, especially in rural settings. Thank God I have DSL, but I used to dialup for years. I can sympathize.

Cajun

The 30% of you on high speed connections may have gotten a boost, but the 70% of us on dialups got screwed[:@]

This site was slow but useable before, but now is barely crawling. If Marc is paying $85K a year for this improvement,,,,,one has to ask if he received his moneys worth[]

rc-sport

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Just goes to show....you can't make everyone happy!

Live Wire

I was told if you can't afford the write equipement , Don't *****!

Johnnylightning

That's write RC, you tell 'em brotha!!!

rusgmil

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I have a V92 modem card installed and am always connected at 48kps+ and I didn't notice any increase in speed. Of the modelers I know that visit this site, maybe only 1 or 2 out of 10 have a high speed connection. I would convert tomorrow if it was available. What I'm trying to say, if you can help us dial up members it would be appreciated. I do know the OLD rcu format was much faster for me.

mkranitz

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Cajun, I promise we don't make expensive moves, software changes or make any other improvements in order to upset or alienate people. I don't understand why folks write posts that imply idiocy, incompetence or non-caring on our part.

Based on a recent survey of our members, 67% are on high speed connections. This, of course, is not relevant to your concern. Those who access the site on dial up should see a major improvement unless their host has difficulties routing to Virginia, where our servers are located (along with a huge number of other consumer dial up servers, like all of AOL). We now located are at the nation's premier hosting facility and our measured transfer time on data is more than 6 times faster than it was at the previous facility.

I know you have not allowed for the possibility of the issue being your modem, but it is a real and likely one. You can disable the dynamic menus in the forum and turn off the thumbnails in the market. You can also switch your connection to dsl or cable modem if it is available in your area and if connection speed is important to you. There are many possibilities. We have done all we possibly can to speed up the existing site. We could, of course, remove the advertisements that appear on the site, but then we wouldn't be able to provide our service.

We are happy to work with you if you think there might be some other issue at hand here. Just let us know.

Michael

DBCherry

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As I said before, I'm not seeing any increase in average speed. Some things seem a bit quicker, but for the most part the average speed is the same as it was. So I have to assume that it's simply because I'm using a dial-up connection. (Usually connect at 50 to 52K.)

If it's slowed down for some, then it must be your ISP's routing.
Dennis-

Flyboy Dave

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Who's Michael ?....does he work here ?

j/k....way to go Michael

mkranitz

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You guys are a funny lot!

On the speed thing, we just kicked on the after-burners. The dial-up folks should notice.

MK

Cajun

Mike and Mark, the speed has come back up to where it was last week. I don't see an increase, but at least we didn't have to keep the loss.

I have two computers from two locations on two different ISPs, with both on dial up slow rural lines. So it's hard to blame the speed on routing. At least we're back up to "barely useable" which is probably the best you can do from your end. I do appreciate your efforts.

I just read a report from the industry that only 30% of residences with web connections are on fast connections, and it will take till 2006 to improve that number to 40%. That makes me wonder about the 67% number you are showing for users of this forum. Maybe this is just a fast bunch,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but I doubt it.

mkranitz

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Our data comes from a sample of 2,037 users on the site who took a survey about 5 months ago. A full 67% said they had either DSL, Cable, Satellite or T-1 access to the site.

On the rural networking, the line and resulting signal quality will result in slower performance. We have jacked this thing about as much as is technically possible short of removing most of the graphics and images....but, then if we did that, where would the fun be?

Thanks for your feedback.

Michael

Chris-_-Memphis

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im on 56k and its alot faster thanks M&M