Please forgive me if this question has been asked before, but I couldn't find it. The MacRumors site (mainly forums) is often very slow, both at home (Mac) and at work (XP). I have tried using various browsers to no avail. Why is it so slow to respond sometimes (such as in the last 15 minutes)? The only sites that are routinely slower for me are .mac and Bank of America.
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Why is MacRumors so slow?
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It's generally been pretty good for me recently, and we should be able to handle the 3,000 users online right now just fine. There was a hiccup about 15-20 minutes ago that slowed things to a crawl briefly, but everything seems fine to me right now. I don't see anything obvious that would have caused the hiccup, so it may have been a clog in the tubes somewhere.
OK, thanks for the replies, but it just seems to me that it is a fairly normal occurrence, and more than would be expected. I can of course understand it during big Apple announcements or things of that sort, but not multiple times a day on a routine basis. This is the only site that exhibits that kind of behavior that I routinely visit. The other sites that I mentioned are always slow, but most sites show no problem whatever.
The site shouldn't be particular slow lately. I'm not sure if its isolated to you. Other people noticing it being particularly slow?
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I'll notice the occasional slow down but it'll usually coincide with some piece of active front page news.
This will be at home (10 Mb) or at work (20-80 Mb).
This will be at home (10 Mb) or at work (20-80 Mb).
I've also experienced some slowness. It'll all be going fine and then everything will suddenly slow to a crawl.
I have notice the same thing, also sometimes it hangs and I'll back browser and then try again, sometimes that helps, I think. 
I also access the site at work and at home with the same results.
I also access the site at work and at home with the same results.
It's been a bit sluggish for me the past few days, but not unbearable or anything like that.
Oh dear, do we need to get Ted Stevens to tell someone the internet isn't a big dump truck?
It's fine now but it did take 20 seconds to load a page.All fine and dandy over here
I'd say by comparison to other sites it's kind of slow but not awful or anything. There are times when it's worse than others. Other than the obvious, where there's tons of people online, I haven't seen another connection as to why.
Hmmm...maybe if I complain about the iPhone, the site will speed up for me
Thankfully, due to Leopard, the iPhone threads seem not to be clogging up the Forum Spy (My home)...
I know I could stop the threads from showing, but I don't want to miss something interesting...
I know how you feel. Even though you know (during the non-Leopard seasons) most of the new posts are going to be iPhone related, there's a part of you that must see it all unfold..
I know how you feel. Even though you know (during the non-Leopard seasons) most of the new posts are going to be iPhone related, there's a part of you that must see it all unfold..
We'll definitely get a spike soon when the iPhone is officially released in Europe...
Oh yes. I do hope I'll still be able to login at by that time!
Anways, night time for me now (it's nearly 1 in the morning on the other side of the Pond[the part which faces the other, larger pond
]).