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[poorman3]

hey ron, for those with dial-up like me. does banners load up slower than images? you have some great galleries! they load up quickly. thanks! chat is real slow for me. would removing banners help us dial_uppers at the chat room? thanks! poorman3.

poorman3 Reviewed by poorman3 on 04-23-2005. chatroom hey ron, for those with dial-up like me. does banners load up slower than images? you have some great galleries! they load up quickly. thanks! chat is real slow for me. would removing banners help us dial_uppers at the chat room? thanks! poorman3. Rating: 5

[Cannabis.com]

Banners have virtually no effect on loading chat, even for dial-up folks.

The Java applet (program) is relatively large and it must be completely downloaded (usually cached for returning chatters, but may not always be for various reasons) and the Java applet must then initialize - both of these cause much delay.

The initialization part on many computers can take longer than the actual downloading part...

Point is that for dial-up folks, chat will typically take about a minute or so to load and initialize - one should wait and not switch/open windows, etc until chat is fully loaded and initialized - that is until one can actually type something in the chat.

File sharing, downloading, on dial-up will tend to satuate the connection - that will cause the chat to run slow; too many programs open at once, spyware, etc can also cause problems for folks with older computers.

Hope this helps

Ron

[poorman3]

thanks ron for replying, chat room loading up sucks but i`ll still go there from time to time. maybe i`ll be blessed with dsl sometime. lol. hey ron, how about telling us slower folks how to get rid of spyware and stuff. like a tutorial page man.

[NowhereMan]

thanks ron for replying, chat room loading up sucks but i`ll still go there from time to time. maybe i`ll be blessed with dsl sometime. lol. hey ron, how about telling us slower folks how to get rid of spyware and stuff. like a tutorial page man.

ad aware works good
i use yahoo anti spy,microsoft antispy (beta version),too
im more or less spyware free even takes out tracking cookies

ad aware is at
http://www.download.com/

[poorman3]

thanks NowhereMan, i`m going to do that now.