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Dial up or slow connections

Post by DarwinStrings » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:15 pm

Some of the threads at the moment are excellent pictorials which is a good thing but they can take a long time to load especially when I am competing with my son and his Youtube watching for download times. As I have broadband it is not a big problem for me but it does make me think of any members with dial up and or slower connections than me. I realise that I may be asking to put a bit of a extra workload on you mods but is there any way some of the threads with a lot of pics in them could be broken into a few pages so that members with slower connection can access the most recent pages quicker as new posts are added?

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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by Nick » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:56 pm

I'm not sure Jim but I think that's a 'feature' that we could be stuck with with the new forum software, Bob's probably the best person to answer & he may be able to enable smaller/shorter pages?
I've noticed that pictures loaded on the ANZLF server are pretty quick at loading but others that are linked through from other's websites or photo hosting site do load a little slower.
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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by DarwinStrings » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:20 pm

Thanks Nick, it is fairly fast for me but I was considering people like Bill who use dial up.

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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by Ron Wisdom » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:45 pm

ME, ME, Me!!! I have dial up. They'll never get highspeed out in my neighborhood, although it is available about a mile away. I've been looking at an air card and going broadband but so far I haven't done it. It does keep me from seeing extensive pic posts and that is why I don't always comment on builds, even though I would like to. At least the photos load a LOT faster here than on the OLF. Haven't a clue why, but they do.

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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by kiwigeo » Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:23 pm

Ron Wisdom wrote: They'll never get highspeed out in my neighborhood,

Banja country!!!! :o
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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by Kim » Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:08 pm

kiwigeo wrote:
Ron Wisdom wrote: They'll never get highspeed out in my neighborhood,

Banja country!!!! :o
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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by Allen » Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:29 pm

The last forum software had the option to set the number of posts per page and I'm sure that the new version has the same feature. We had limited it before on the old software to help those on slower connections. Doesn't worry me if we change it again to help those folks.
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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by Bob Connor » Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:09 pm

I just changed it to 25 posts per page rather than 50.

Let me know if it's any better you folk in dialup land.
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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by P Bill » Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:21 pm

Thanks for the effort fellas. I think we,ve been conned by our phone company. After a visit by a Telecom tech to service a lightning strike on our phoneline, we were informed there's no reason we can't have b.b. Our supplier doesn't have the techs to deal with a"'split service".We'll be looking for a new supplier soon.
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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by Allen » Mon Dec 13, 2010 7:13 am

I had a listen to the audio clips on his website and they don't sound too bad. I don't think that they were necessarily the best choice to demonstrate the dynamics that the instrument is capable of, but perhaps that's all that thy are capable of?

It's an interesting study on bracing though. A centre reinforcement and ladder bracing for cross grain stiffness. The round rim stiffening the perimeter in a very predictable way. Much more like a speaker cone than anything we see (other than a banjo of course).

They are however just about the ugliest "guitars" I've ever seen, but I'm guessing with all that weight in the design it would be a hell of a weapon in a bar fight.
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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by kiwigeo » Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:55 am

Allen wrote:
They are however just about the ugliest "guitars" I've ever seen, but I'm guessing with all that weight in the design it would be a hell of a weapon in a bar fight.
Yeah great to have at hand during a bar fight...but they usually start the fight in the first place.....

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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by DarwinStrings » Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:08 am

Thanks Bob.

Hmmm is it just me or is your post supposed to be in Brenden's thread Allen?

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Re: Dial up or slow connections

Post by Ron Wisdom » Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:16 pm

Kim wrote:
kiwigeo wrote:
Ron Wisdom wrote: They'll never get highspeed out in my neighborhood,

Banja country!!!! :o
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DAMN, Kim, that's disturbing!! Kinda looks like my brothers-in-law. :D

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