Getting ready?

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:53 pm

Have been searching around at other boards and the only people having trouble are Australians (although not ALL of us - it seems to depend on where we live). I don't know why this should be!

Maybe when everyone goes back to work?

As my Mammy says "Ach, it's no fair!!!"

Nina

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:34 am

Nina

Yesterday I found I had no problems in accessing sites here in the west. Although still at my painful page loading speed.

But, and theres always a but. When I took the plunge to get AVG I had heaps of problems trying to download the programme. Ranging from very very slow download speeds (as low as .6kbs) and corrupt file. Then after quite a few attempts it download at a good rate. So perhaps it is a result of the earthquake that we here in Oz are getting intermittent connections.
Now that new antivirus is installed page loading speeds are back to normal.

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:58 am

As I mentioned on another thread - my SP seems to be back to normal today (11 am Qld time)

Stewie

Can I ask re your anti virus - did you have problems with another impacting your page loading speeds? Which one was it? (apologies if I have obviously missed another thread)

Trish

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:12 am

Hello Trish

Yes I had heaps of problems with my previous anti-virus programme which was McAfee Internet Suite. There was a major update to the programme sometime in November and since that update the page loading speed was atrocious to say the least. It was slowing up page loading to the poorest of dial up speeds, and I am on broadband. Oh and from being a reasonably user friendly programme, it went to one that required a Doctorate in Computer engineering/programming.

In fact I was becoming quite demented, as just trying to catch up with TS postings was taking hours. I wont even bother about how slow genes was.

I even got to the point of logging in and marking pages as read

just to try and read the latest postings that struck a chord.

I deleted the programme yesterday and installed AVG and it is running like a charm again

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:10 am

Thanks for that - interesting - because my Norton's got corrupted & I renewed and updated it to latest version in October & have found it invasive and overwhelming ever since (despite turning off every possible automatic feature)- it continually goes searching the net, slowing all that I do & when I told my firewall to stop it doing same I am continually bombarded with popup requests telling me I have a problem! - so have been thinking of changing to AVG as well. Your comments have about convinced me - I am simply wary that the program will remove cleanly - I'm sure it will tell me all hell will break lose if I dare to remove it

Trish

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:32 am

Trish

You should be able to remove the programme cleanly by removing from via the add/remove section in control panel. Although I understand that the demonic programme may scream portents of doom.

I got the fully paid up verions of AVG, but my friend said earlier today that she uses the free version and it is fine.

I too found that McAfee had become too invasive it was forever asking me to authorise changes to the registry when I went onto sites I had been on hundreds of times before.

I hope you get your comp sorted out and have a guid new year, you will see it in before I do here in the west

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:12 am

Hi Stew

Many thanks for your words of assistance - others I have asked have screamed doom and gloom at me so it is nice to hear another opinion. I don't mind paying - the developers do need to stay around for the program to continue to be useful

We have had the coolest December in 100 years! (My first with air con

- which we have only turned on twice)

Seasons Greetings

Trish

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:24 am

Just so you know....the problem seems to be common to southern Australia, no-one in Victoria or South Australia that I have talked to has access to SP right now. Sporran has been kind enough to contact SP for me (I can't even get a home page to come up) so hopefully they will be able to fix it.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:43 am

ninatoo wrote:Just so you know....the problem seems to be common to southern Australia, no-one in Victoria or South Australia that I have talked to has access to SP right now. Sporran has been kind enough to contact SP for me (I can't even get a home page to come up) so hopefully they will be able to fix it.

Sounds like it's a, or the, major local node connecting Vic/SA to the www.

That would be most unusual, tho', since a great advantage of the www is its multi-node aspect - think of a spider's web in many dimensions.

At the other end of the line, so to speak, I find it difficult to believe that SP would be selectively shutting out a geographic area .....

First class weird

David

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:53 am

Well David, it has happened to me before at "Bute Sons and Daughters". Apparently they had some hackers from this end of the world, and to stop them they banned them, accidentally cutting the rest of Australia off. So I know it IS possible to do, even by accident. Bute sons and daughters had to go to their ISP people to fix it.

I think something has been accidntally altered in the upgrade, and armed with all that info I gave to sporran, hopefully they can fix it.