Terrible DIS Tech Problems!

[natalielongstaff]

same problems here too, very

 

[diberry]

Ive posted on the Tech board. If we dont get a response, I think we should try PMing the tech mods en masse!

Brilliant idea - just give us the word!!!

 

[Mrs Dazzle]

I've had exactly the same as everything allie5 described - in fact just trying to get onto page 2 of this thread took an age including being told the page was not available the first time I tried. Everything just takes so long and it's driving me I posted on the Tech board about getting 3 or more email alerts for the same post but have not had a response. Please can someone with some influence help?????

Same again here - I've been blaming AOL for the last few weeks, I only tend to get on first thing in the morning these days when I'm eating my toast and sluriping a cup of tea down, but it's getting tooooooooo frustrating

 

[Hilary]

Hilary, who should we contact about this?? We all love to DIS in the evenings and it is becoming increasingly more difficult (to the point of me personally, not bothering at all soon).

You can tell the techie people but I'm not sure there's anything that can be done (says she who is not at all techie ) as it would seem to be a problem of overload on the server - is the DIS a victim of its own success?

 

[BONZO]

is the DIS a victim of its own success?

I think you've got it in one Hilary!

I know that over the years the servers have been changed and beefed up to cope with demand but this will always be on ongoing issue as the popularity of the boards increases, although I'm sure the Tech Support team are well aware of the issues and have plans in place.

 

[Feralpeg]

If it makes you feel any better, the boards are really slow for those of us in the US as well. I use Roadrunner and it is still very slow. I think there are just so many DISers at the same time.

 

[AlanUK]

I think one of the problems might also be due to the proliferation of broadband technology. As peoples connections to the internet get better the amount of data requested over any period of time increases, this increases the work that the servers have to do.

When everyone had dial-up the limitation was with the client as that was by far the slowest link in the chain, now that has been speeded up significantly the bottleneck has moved elsewhere.

 

[shellbell]

I am also having problems getting on the boards all times of the day I couldn't get on at all yesterday until very late last night

Michelle

 

[Mrs Dazzle]

Oh dear . . . this is what happened the last time the UK boards crashed never to be no more

 

[allie5]

The techies have responded on the Tech forum....they are aware of the problem, and they are doing their level best to sort it out.

Hang in there guys, I think we will see an improvement soon!

Allie

 

[diberry]

Brilliant! Thanks for doing all that Allie - hopefully they'll get it sorted soon.

 

[Ware Bears]

Thanks Allie

 

[florida sun]

Thanks Allie


Sue

 

[diberry]

No noticeable improvement yet - still driving me . Looking on the tech boards it seems everyone's having the same problems and nobody can find a solution. aaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cyrano]

I'll have a look at the tech boards, as it is probably even slower now.


Reid