The Forums are so SLOW!!!!!!!!

[Pc_Madness]

Is anyone else having trouble posting messages and stuff?

Its really slow.!!

[GSIV]

Yep. I am too!

[khalik]

yea... some time it is dam slow...
by the time i respond some one else has a solution ..

[Swatty]

Yep, thinking of going round the block today instead of surfing on this slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow site.

[Pc_Madness]

Bring back the old Server I says.


Its was never this bad.

[khalik]

O we are running on diff server...
just for info what server are we ....(type and brand)

[Pc_Madness]

Ok threads don't even exist anymore.

[mendhak]

It's not a very good server actually. VBF needs a dedicated server, as filburt1 had pointed out.

Besides, you ppl need to get a real man's connection: a T1.

[Pc_Madness]

They called it T1 because Americans couldn't spell Cable


Cable ain't cheap down under. Its like $70 a month or something.

[Swatty]

Cable over here is around €42 .

yea... some time it is dam slow...
by the time i respond some one else has a solution ..

Are you sure it is the server which is slow ???

[Pc_Madness]

lol

[cim3]

Soooooo slow and I've gone through about 10 threads on the front page that just don't exist, what a waste of time.

[Swatty]

Fell asleep waiting for the thread to be refreshed.


I'll try again another day.

CIAo

[jray214]

I am trying to do a search and the server times out.

Bummer, for this is such a GREAT source of VB information.

Jim

[DamnRock]

I've been trying all morning to make one ****ING post....and it always times out and it keeps putting up empty posts on the forum.

This is crap. I can reply to people, I can open posts and search... but I can't create my own post...

Anyways, would ANYone be kind enough to post the following post to the General Forum?

I have a very fast cable modem account (sustained downloads of up to 450KB/sec.... so this is just unacceptable. I realize its a free board... but at some point you have to fix the problem....its just so frustrating... no hope in using the site between 8 and 5
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Title: How to Add Items to Menu Control Array at Run-time?

Body:

Ok, I've read a billion posts on dynamic menus and run-time menus and what-not... and none seem to address what I want to do.

Lets say using the VB Menu Editor, I create a menubar that consists of 2 main options: File, Options... then under File I have 2 options (Exit and Open), and under Options I have 3 items (Last Site, Most Recent, and Favorites)... I can set this up easily... so that each one of the sub-options will run a procedure and do something... simple enough? All that is done at design time...

HOWEVER< what I want is lets say I then have an array that is created at RUNtime that holds the ip addresses of sites I watn to be in teh favorites list... I want to ADD the contents of my array under the Favorites item (which is under the Options menu) so taht when I clikc on one of the favorites it runs teh code for the Favorites menu, but with an index that tells the Favorites code which favorite was selected...The favorites sub-menu item added at run-time is a control array with index set to 0.

MSDN says you can add items to a menu control array at run-time but never says HOW to do it (Typical MS BS)...

IS THIS POSSIBLE? if so how? I'd love for it to be a simple solution... but if not, I can handle api code to do it also...

Thanks for all your help.

Rock

[ShoqG]

I have been thinking that the past few days myself that the everything is so much slower. I'm glad someone actually posted a message so they are aware of the problem.

[MartinLiss]

Pc_Madness: I agree that the forums are way too slow but please do not post messages like this one in the General VB forum. The place to put it is in Forum Feedback.

[sdjunky]

Answer to your question about the menu

Make certain to specify an Index value in the Menu editor

Then in your code do the following

Private Sub Form_Load()
  Load mnuAddresses(mnuAddresses.Count + 1)
  With mnuAddresses(mnuAddresses.Count)
    .Caption = "Navigate to 255.255.255.255"
    .Visible = True
    .Tag = "255.255.255.255"
  End With
End Sub
 
Private Sub mnuAddresses_Click(Index As Integer)
  MsgBox mnuAddresses.Item(Index).Tag
End Sub

[Kunchesm]

in the last half an hour i cudnt go thru 2 posts also... its taking too much time to respond to any click .... if the same situation continues ...its hard to spend time on this forum anymore .... iam so sorry to say this coz ... i hav registered in march 02 and hav improved a lot going thru this forum regularly from then onwards ... but for that sake i cant stare at hour glass hours together .....

hope every thing sets fine in a day or 2 ....

[Kunchesm]

in the last half an hour i cudnt go thru 2 posts also... its taking too much time to respond to any click .... if the same situation continues ...its hard to spend time on this forum anymore .... iam so sorry to say this coz ... i hav registered in march 02 and hav improved a lot going thru this forum regularly from then onwards ... but for that sake i cant stare at hour glass hours together .....

hope every thing sets fine in a day or 2 ....

[Hampster]

http://www.rackspace.com/dedicated/r...tid=0100-99999
VBForums should be hosted there
http://www.ebookad.com/software/hieb...r260_Setup.exe 2mb speed test on rackspace
http://www.ebookad.com/software/hiebookSDK_Setup.exe 20mb speed test on rackspace
Probably out of the price range though

[Pc_Madness]

Originally posted by MartinLiss
Pc_Madness: I agree that the forums are way too slow but please do not post messages like this one in the General VB forum. The place to put it is in Forum Feedback.

I was just trying to find out if anyone else was having a similar problem. And the best place to get this answered is in the General VB Q & A.

U need to lighten up man.

If I was talking about what I ate for breakfast yesterday, I could understand you moving it, but this has to do with everyone, so why should we exclude those who don't visit Forum Feedback??

Alot of people don't live on the forums like some of us.

[buddu]

Can't we Reduce the Immages..? Almost the site is loding fast ony except to loding Immages Like

profile- pm- emal- search - buddy ---

For these things we can make it as Text with Some StyleSheet.

I think i will improve the loading time.

[Pc_Madness]

Thats not a bad idea... give people an option as like a skin... like the VB Forums/VB World. Perfect for people who have *cough*crappy*cough* dialups. I would definately choose a Text Version.

[NotLKH]

Originally posted by Pc_Madness


I was just trying to find out if anyone else was having a similar problem. And the best place to get this answered is in the General VB Q & A.

U need to lighten up man.

If I was talking about what I ate for breakfast yesterday, I could understand you moving it, but this has to do with everyone, so why should we exclude those who don't visit Forum Feedback??

Alot of people don't live on the forums like some of us.

I come to Forum Feedback when things are going wrong with the website. Where do you go?

This IS the right place for your thread, ML doesn't have to lighten up, he was completely correct in moving your thread to where it would do most good.

Anyways, does this tracert look right to you?

Tracing route to www.vbforums.com [209.120.143.185]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



  1   150 ms   160 ms   156 ms  nas1.roc.frontiernet.net [66.133.132.66] 

  2   155 ms   149 ms   180 ms  66.133.132.1 

  3   250 ms   140 ms   165 ms  66-133-170-61.roc.frontiernet.net [66.133.170.61] 

  4   270 ms   200 ms   200 ms  p10-0.gw02.chcg.eli.net [209.210.88.17] 

  5   170 ms   160 ms   160 ms  srp2-0.cr01.chcg.eli.net [208.186.20.81] 

  6   290 ms   200 ms   200 ms  so-0-0-0--0.er01.chcg.eli.net [207.173.114.98] 

  7   171 ms   170 ms   180 ms  edge1.aads.level3.net [206.220.243.105] 

  8   180 ms   205 ms   200 ms  so-4-1-0.mp2.Chicago1.Level3.net [209.247.10.173] 

  9   309 ms   200 ms   220 ms  so-1-0-0.mp1.Dallas1.Level3.net [209.247.11.22] 

 10   205 ms   220 ms   200 ms  pos8-0.core1.Dallas1.Level3.net [209.247.10.98] 

 11   305 ms   200 ms   200 ms  gige10-1.ipcolo1.Dallas1.Level3.net [209.244.15.70] 

 12  3075 ms   200 ms   200 ms  unknown.Level3.net [209.246.152.206] 

 13   215 ms   185 ms   200 ms  66.7.141.225 

 14   220 ms   200 ms   201 ms  dfw017ap01.yipes.com [66.54.195.129] 

 15   255 ms   200 ms   215 ms  66.54.148.10 

 16   216 ms   219 ms   195 ms  www.vbforums.com [209.120.143.185] 



Trace complete.

-Lou

[Pc_Madness]

This thread is to do with the Forums being slow, not some tracert crap.

[NotLKH]

Originally posted by Pc_Madness
This thread is to do with the Forums being slow, not some tracert crap.

True. But the tracert shows an unusually long timespan:

3075 ms 200 ms 200 ms unknown.Level3.net [209.246.152.206]

And,


What is this "unknown.Level3.net" ???


-Lou

[NoteMe]

Originally posted by NotLKH

What is this "unknown.Level3.net" ???


-Lou

It is the Network partner you can rely on....

[Electroman]

Bringing up 2 year old threads are we to get the last word in? .

BTW I think Level3 might be one of those companys that manage sites security . I've seen them here and there, like if your site gets DoS'ed you speak to them .