Anyone else having trouble logging on?

[MossRoad]

If you have a problem with one website you don't reinstall the operating system.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Often TBN pages are painfully slow to load, yet a speed test seems to indicate a reasonable connection. Is this the site, or something inbetween?

Lately, I cannot upload pics from my pc. Everything seems to show normal progress, but in the end, nothing. No error message either.

 

[Xfaxman]

Often TBN pages are painfully slow to load, yet a speed test seems to indicate a reasonable connection. Is this the site, or something inbetween?

Lately, I cannot upload pics from my pc. Everything seems to show normal progress, but in the end, nothing. No error message either.

That is what happens now when the pictures are too large. They changed something and didn't tell us.

Resize them to about 800x600 or less and try it.

 

[DFB]

Page loading has been exceedingly slow for me also as of late...

I have had the same issues uploading photos too and I do post a lot of photos.

Used to be one of the quickest loading sites I frequent.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Thanks Xfaxman, that did it as far as the pics. I never had to resize them before however, and at 800x600 the pic quality aint great. I personally love examining pictures beyond their main focus.

 

[sixdogs]

Geez sixdogs hopefully you can keep up with Harbor Freight tools threads now!

That is true and it will take a while. I'll never catch up with the Good Morning thread.

If you have a problem with one website you don't reinstall the operating system.

I'm not that computer smart. I had no idea.

 

[Industrial Toys]

No, of course not! You take it outside and use it for target practice!

Actually, I did practically go that berserk, shutting down applications (despite the warnings) when I was having issues. Now with no more XP support, I can't fix the damage I did and my original XP disk is of no use since it has no updates!

 

[aczlan]

No, of course not! You take it outside and use it for target practice!

Actually, I did practically go that berserk, shutting down applications (despite the warnings) when I was having issues. Now with no more XP support, I can't fix the damage I did and my original XP disk is of no use since it has no updates!

Actually, there are no NEW XP updates. You can still download existing ones.

Aaron Z

 

[Industrial Toys]

So I can go to Microsoft and reload the latest XP into my PC? They still offer that support? I tried something like that today and it (the site) would not allow me to proceed. I thought that was because support is no longer being offered on XP and 10.

Thanks

 

[aczlan]

You would install from your old CD, then run Windows Update to update things. I would manually download Service Pack 3 and install it, then run Windows Update.

Aaron Z

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's great, thanks for the heads up.

 

[wcampbell47]

Pinging the site resolves fairly quickly to the ip address. The ping reply time is decent for me being on satellite. I have used the site this evening with no issues.

 

[wcampbell47]

You would install from your old CD, then run Windows Update to update things. I would manually download Service Pack 3 and install it, then run Windows Update.

Aaron Z

An old timer pc tech person might have everything you need on CD and/or USB stick. Great advice on installing SP3 before running Windows Update. Windows update has a tendency to download the service packs from 1st to last. The last time I re-installed Win7 there were something like 196 updates. Would think XP would be similar with lots of updates to be downloaded.

 

[aczlan]

An old timer pc tech person might have everything you need on CD and/or USB stick. Great advice on installing SP3 before running Windows Update. Windows update has a tendency to download the service packs from 1st to last. The last time I re-installed Win7 there were something like 196 updates. Would think XP would be similar with lots of updates to be downloaded.

The reason is that Windows Update for XP only supports SP3 and higher.

Aaron Z

 

[MossRoad]

The reason is that Windows Update for XP only supports SP3 and higher.

Aaron Z

Uh, yep. If you load XP with no service packs and try to run Windows Updates, it won't work. So you load SP1. And it still doesn't work. So you load SP2 and it still doesn't work... SP3 is all-inclusive, as I recall.

 

[Industrial Toys]

OK, now I am really confused! It's why I like getting out and working in the bush and dirt!

Aside from that. I just tried streaming video, Dolly Parton, Dumb Blonde, (what a sweetie) on youtube while negotiating TBN and it seems TBM has quite an appetite for bandwidth. I have a mediocre (at best) high speed terrestrial wireless connection. What I witnessed surprised me, almost as much as the young Dolly.

 

[sixdogs]

This is getting weird. Sometimes I can get on sometimes I can't, sometimes I can post, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I go through all the effort to respond to a post only to not be able to post it. Sometimes I get a half a page yet a post will run the width of a whole page. Generally, I can get on only about 20% of the time.

 

[dragoneggs]

This is getting weird. Sometimes I can get on sometimes I can't, sometimes I can post, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I go through all the effort to respond to a post only to not be able to post it. Sometimes I get a half a page yet a post will run the width of a whole page. Generally, I can get on only about 20% of the time.

Hang in there... I'm sure the moderators have you mixed up with someone else a little more nefarious.

 

[MossRoad]

The moderators have nothing to do with it.

 

[dragoneggs]

The moderators have nothing to do with it.

I'm kidding. Sorry.