Why Is Answerbank So Slow?

[Theland1]

It's taking me teo to three minutes to get to view different pages, yet other web sites I log on to are O.K. so it is not my computer.
Anybody else having difficulties?

[daffy654]

It is definitely the adverts that are slowing down the site as gen2 says. For some reason we have now got an influx of American banner adverts.I added the web address of the worst offenders to my hosts file in windows and it has speeded up the loading times of the pages considerably.

[daffy654]

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Here you go wizard66 and anyone else that wants to try it.

[Panic Button]

If they don't sort it soon, I'm off.

Just try clicking on 'Most recently answered', or in my profile 'questions I have answered'

You just get fault messages - eventually.

[dabees]

It's funny Daffy should mention ads, i use Firefox with adblock plus. I never see an advert on this site and it's very rarely slow.

Just and option for you to try.

[funnygirl]

I still cannot get on to sports!!

Everyday it freezes up on me!! WHY!!!!