Has anyone else had already read posts coming up as unread on your main index here at the oracle? I have been having some long load times too, and was just wondering if anyone else had same problem.

i have been having extrreamly long load times but the cable company pinged my motem and its going really slopw so its something on there end

I've been having some really long load times...I'm on DSL,and my connection seems fine.

Are you guys using Firefox?

I am but my load times hve been long since I am dl'ing SOG, that is probably what is up with Sea and Grif too lol

my load times are fine but I do occasionally see posts that I have read come up as unread. Not a big deal though. Smileys also don't work for me but I guess that is my browser being crap. They work if I type in the smiley icons myself ie : ) = but clicking the picture of them do nothing. On the bottom of the webpage it says "error on page".

My Internet explorer has been a bit crap for a while though so its probably my end.

Elph if you are downloading with bit torrent and it is making surfing incredably slow then you probably have the upload set to high on your bittorent client.

If you know how much upload your conection has then set your upload to be 90% of max. Ie I have a crappy upload of 500Kb per second so I set my upload limit on my bit torrent client to 400Kb or 40KB. Otherwise you have so much going up your pipe nothing can come down it (ooo err mrs)

Actually since my internet explorer sucks I just downloaded firefox. Seems a great browser. Love the tabs.

hmm smileys still don't work.

no i dont use firefox and im downloading on my tower and im on my laptop for forums so that wouldnt effect my load times on the site, the internet company sayed the box is not as fast as it shoudl be.

Fleeting you have to drag and drop the smileys.

thx for info on the upload (thx Fleeting) and the smileys (thx Garal)

Was it because of torrenting that you were loading slow? If so let me take this chance to call you an idiot :P

Actually Garal i am done torrenting and I am still having slow load time in some posts.

Fleeting, it wasn't horrible slow just KGB LOL i was uploading 20kbs and downloading like 17 towards teh end so i don't think i had it too bad, and kaly and I share a connection and he was dl'ing at the same time too.

Maybe jet has a burp in his system or something because it seemed like it got really slow as of last night.


The smiles are broke and not clickable, it's a known issue and should be worked out soon.

Working pretty good for me. I'm on 768k dsl. With sigs and pics on sometimes it's slow loading but not too bad.

naa, I have a second computer for surfing and one for gaming and dling. Val made a post too, I'M NOT ALONE !!

After saying mine was fine yesturday its now really slow for me too.

But thanks to Garal smilies are back

lol lemme ask this every one that has been having slow times have comcast ?

no i'm DSL

lol looks like im sittin good now so far, some loose connections and the motem might be at the point were its starting to go bad and if it does then its shot but cant do nothing till it does lol guess im dling at 360 and 375 is great, uploading at 600 an d that is right were it should be so well see how long it lasts haha..... they did some maitnence some were in da area wich mighta pushed me up to were i would be having some trubble till they finished but ya they just want mah monay haha

well seems like the site is still goin slow im uploading the SoG at 80kb/s now so it must be teh site.

i have comcast but kgb is the only site that is slow for me this morning it was snail pace it was horrible!!

i think jet might be having some issues.

ya it seems a lil better now.

yep its very on-again off-again as far as oracle load times.

You guys werent imagining it, oracle will go into snail-mode every so often, and stay in it for 1-5 hours.