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Do the pictures take bandwidth on FR's (I assume) T1? Even if the pictures are located on other servers?

I suspect this problem is just a traffic problem. That is, interest in the election is peaking and a lot more folks are logging onto FR. Why? It got like this on the day of Wellstone's death. The obvious explanation is that many more FREEPERS are logging on when big events happen.

I suspect that the only solution is more servers or more bandwidth for peak usage.

It got like this on the day of Wellstone's death.

I agree. The first time I noticed a problem was when I tried to get on following a radio announcement of the plane crash. I immediately assumed my access issue was due to everyone else trying to get in as well.

This slowness problem seems to be a lot more extended and is taking a lot longer to "resolve" than similar problems in the past. I don't think that "traffic" is to blame - - as I recall, new threads and posts during the summer of '98 (impeachment summer) had to blow away whatever is coming along now.

On the other hand, when I tried to post to yesterday's FReeper USO Canteen thread (the one about the soldier who was killed during a covert operation in Poland), it took forever for the thread to come up because of all the pictures and graphics. I finally gave up on it.

But would that kind of stuff have anything to do with me clicking on 'Post Reply' in order to bring up this box I am typing into and having to wait forever for it to come up? (That is, if I don't get the "Site Not Responding" pop-up first.)

I think the problem is some kind of virus, security breach, or scumbag Democrat sabotage. That's what I think.

This slowness problem seems to be a lot more extended and is taking a lot longer to "resolve" than similar problems in the past. I don't think that "traffic" is to blame - - as I recall, new threads and posts during the summer of '98 (impeachment summer) had to blow away whatever is coming along now.

On the other hand, when I tried to post to yesterday's FReeper USO Canteen thread (the one about the soldier who was killed during a covert operation in Poland), it took forever for the thread to come up because of all the pictures and graphics. I finally gave up on it.

But would that kind of stuff have anything to do with me clicking on 'Post Reply' in order to bring up this box I am typing into and having to wait forever for it to come up? (That is, if I don't get the "Site Not Responding" pop-up first.)

I think the problem is some kind of virus, security breach, or scumbag Democrat sabotage. That's what I think.