Re: BBC sites very slow.

On 17 Dec 2014 george greenfield <george.greenfield@tiscali.co.uk>
wrote:

> In message <a564a07754.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>
> Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:

>> On 17 Dec 2014 Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> This is with RISC OS and development builds, currently #2441, but has
>>> been happening for several days now.
>>
>>> Any of the BBC sites are now taking a lot longer to download, maybe by
>>> a factor of five to ten times as long. They are now even slower than
>>> the www.msscociety.org.uk sites which till now have been the slowest
>>
>> Sorry, typo. http://www.mssociety.org.uk/
>>
>>
>>> to download. I've checked my connection speed, and it's much the same
>>> as usual.
>>
>>> Is this a problem with NetSurf or with the BBC sites? I suspect the
>>> latter.
>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>
>>> Peter.
>>
>>
> Haven't noticed the Beeb being slow, but the MS Society link you gave
> loaded here in 4.7 secs, the forum link in 0.7 and the support link in
> 2.6 secs respectively - I wouldn't call that slow, personally. Setup
> is a RaspPi RO 5.21 (900Mhz) running NS 3.2 official release.

7 seconds to the MS/Cheltnham site, and 5 seconds from this to the
forum. Roughly the same timings with Chrome on Windows. This is a lot
quicker than normal with both platforms.

Best wishes,

Peter.

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