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tim tomlinson
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April 8, 2026 - 4:21 pm
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Is it just me or is the forum running unusually slow?  My computer is running quickly on other aspects, but takes quite some time to even load the forum once I have signed in.  If there are several updated topics it takes even longer to open a topic.  In the recent past I have stopped, turned off my computer entirely and restarted to see if that makes a difference.  It doesn’t.  Download speeds on the overall computer system are the quickest I’ve had in a long time (in excess of 200 mbs)  Tim

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Jeremy P
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April 8, 2026 - 4:24 pm
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I’ve gotten some DNS errors today intermittently…probably this: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

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April 8, 2026 - 4:48 pm
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Maybe our astronauts are logged into WACA site and slowing everything down Laugh

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Steven Gabrielli
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April 8, 2026 - 5:19 pm
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YES. Has been for some days now. Almost unusable.

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Zebulon
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April 8, 2026 - 6:04 pm
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I’ve experienced that myself — and am seeing it right now. I run an eeros mesh network in-house and my Internet service is on fiber optic. This Website is the only thing I use that varies between sluggish and non-existent.  The problem is fairly recent although I can’t peg a date — best guess would be a month. 

- Bill 

 

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Anthony
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April 8, 2026 - 11:22 pm
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YES!!!

 

Extremely Slow, as I even did a scan and a clean up on mu PC, and it helped but I just noticed something is going on here!

 

Tony

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April 9, 2026 - 12:45 am
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Yes, I’ve noticed it’s been slow over the past few days as well.

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TXGunNut
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April 9, 2026 - 1:04 am
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Seems to be running great now.

 

Mike

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April 9, 2026 - 2:36 am
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Just got on the forum at 2130 hours local time.  Think that is n ow 0030 Zulu with DST.  Anyway, I zipped on and through the new postings.  Hasn’t run this quickly for me in a long time!  Obviously I did nothing to cause the improvement so likely did nothing to fcause the problem.  Like Zeb I was pushed  into fiber optics service with eero network and sped up my service but not to the level advertised (1 gig advertised).. ……

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TXGunNut
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April 9, 2026 - 2:56 am
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I made it for years on a wireless data connection so when struggles with Zoom meetings got to be too frustrating I upgraded to fiber optic. The modem made my laptop obsolete but when the dust settled I was able to do things I’d never dreamed of. And yes, I hate virtual meetings.

 

 

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