Site viewing, often in articles, is unnecessarily slow and frustrating.

[Shadrach]

By the way beautiful lamps!

Thank You

 

[jolenesdad]

Move to Texas, Houston specifically.
Internet options are the bomb here. . Although internet speed is not everything, having up to date devices really does improve internet use.

UGH unless you are north of Houston and have consolidated. CONSOLIDATED THAT LAID DOWN FIBER OPTIC ACROSS YOUR PROPERTY EASEMENT TO CONNECT A NEIGHBORHOOD DOWN THE ROAD AND WONT LET YOU TAP INTO IT.

sorry. I’m not frustrated or anything. ;-)

At least they bumped me from 3mbps to 10.

To the OP, I wonder if there’s a browser extension for your browser that automatically resizes images....

 

[Kiki]

UGH unless you are north of Houston and have consolidated. CONSOLIDATED THAT LAID DOWN FIBER OPTIC ACROSS YOUR PROPERTY EASEMENT TO CONNECT A NEIGHBORHOOD DOWN THE ROAD AND WONT LET YOU TAP INTO IT.

sorry. I’m not frustrated or anything. ;-)

At least they bumped me from 3mbps to 10.

To the OP, I wonder if there’s a browser extension for your browser that automatically resizes images....

 

[jolenesdad]

Oooooh oooooh oooooooh maybe this?!?!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/data-saver/pfmgfdlgomnbgkofeojodiodmgpgmkac

 

[TwoCrows]

It's not the adds one the site. I use ABP on Firestarter.
There's this stuff called money. I know there is a lot of it about, but up here it seems to blow by in the wind.
Hopefully I'll sell some more lamps at the annual craft fair in November. Meanwhile, any extra money I get goes on the chickens and not on the internet.

I can vouch for the ads NOT being the issue. Now a days with the heavy laden picture pixels, it takes for ever for these HD photos to load, if they do at all. Connection time outs are common when pics don't load.

I feel the pain of poor Internet connection. We have no Internet at our house. The only thing available is through DIRECTV he subcontracts Hughes net for Internet. You’re better off sending smoke signals than using Hughes net. It won’t even connect at my house and it was the most impossible thing in the world to cancel and beyond expensive. I have a little patience to but knowing It won’t even connect at my house and it was the most impossible thing in the world to cancel and beyond expensive. I have a little patience to that learned over the years that I have chosen to live in the middle of nowhere which I love but with that comes things I don’t love. Like the only Internet connection being through the phone which still gives an extremely weak signal. And also understand that better server and better phone costs money that I don’t have a lot of extra But we in the minority i’m teaching myself to grow more patient because it would be hard to ask thousands of users to change the way they do things. It makes the Internet hard with everything including BYC. But that’s about all I use the internet for

This is my situation to a T! I love my remoteness, the quiet, the isolation, but with this comes bad internet connection. I have to choose what I desire most in life, internet isn't first on the top of my list, so I deal with it. Barely.

Edit to add: We are too remote for a land line!!

 

[TwoCrows]

Oooooh oooooh oooooooh maybe this?!?!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/data-saver/pfmgfdlgomnbgkofeojodiodmgpgmkac

Been there done that. It has little effect on the situation. Trying to STOP the data can slow things down!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Hello.
The internet connection I have here is far from state of the art, not do I have a particularly powerful computer. I imagine there are many contributors to BYC in a similar position.
There are a number of things that posters can do to help those with older computer hardware and not state of the art internet connections to make viewing the site a less frustrating business.
Large high definition pictures of MegaByte size take a long time to load. Most operating system provide a conversion tool in their media packages that will convet a png image for example to a jpeg image with a much reduced file size and no apparent reduction in quality when view on the forum pages.
Animated Gifs may be fun, but they to make demands on the bandwidth and processor.
Large bold type may seem a great idea to make your point but is it really necessary?
Even a reduction of permitted picture file size to would help.
Anyway, I wondered if the staff at BYC might consider a posting guidelines for considerate posters illustrating how to resize pictures for example and in general how to post so the site rund more smoothly for those of us with poor internet and older hardware.

This is my observation. And only my point of view. Others may have other suggestions that differ.
It's the ads that SLOW DOWN my pages WHEN I"M NOT LOGGED IN. But the advertisements pay for the operational cost of maintaining this web site and constantly improving it.
There is a simple way to speed up your browser. Purchasing a Premium Feather Membership. Not only will the ads go away, but the perks that come with it are well worth the financial donation.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/byc-premium-feather-membership-upgrade-pfm.47730/
WHEN I"M LOGGED IN, MY PFM REMOVES THE ADS & There is a very noticeable speed increase.
There are ways to receive PFM's for free by entering various contests here on BYC like this one for example-
2018 Halloween Hatch-A-Long "EGG DECORATING CONTEST"

In the meanwhile, I would recommend going to your computer browser "History Files" and delete all cookies, history of web, recent activity, data cashe and passwords. This will double your speed from the get go.
Running defrag regularly makes a world of difference as well.

 

[Birdsong 82]

I can vouch for the ads NOT being the issue. Now a days with the heavy laden picture pixels, it takes for ever for these HD photos to load, if they do at all. Connection time outs are common when pics don't load.



This is my situation to a T! I love my remoteness, the quiet, the isolation, but with this comes bad internet connection. I have to choose what I desire most in life, internet isn't first on the top of my list, so I deal with it. Barely.

Edit to add: We are too remote for a land line!!

I thought we were the only ones that remote. Where in that same situation lol. cable and Internet stop about 10 miles each side of where we live also. with no thoughts of coming this way. But I figure at least one good thing comes out of that. At least my daughter Is staring at a screen less often then when she goes to visit grandma out in town. I’m just thankful the only thing I really use my phone Internet for his backyard chickens. I get service on the phone half the time at my house. Lol

 

[TwoCrows]

I thought we were the only ones that remote. Where in that same situation lol. cable and Internet stop about 10 miles each side of where we live also. with no thoughts of coming this way. But I figure at least one good thing comes out of that. At least my daughter Is staring at a screen less often then when she goes to visit grandma out in town. I’m just thankful the only thing I really use my phone Internet for his backyard chickens. I get service on the phone half the time at my house. Lol

Identical situation here! Up the road 5 miles, there's a phone line. Unless we want to cough up a gazzilion dollars to lay phone line, we are out of luck! You have the right idea, especially for your daughter, teach her early in life, there is more to life than the internet. Keeps me off the couch too!

 

[Shadrach]

I thought we were the only ones that remote. Where in that same situation lol. cable and Internet stop about 10 miles each side of where we live also. with no thoughts of coming this way. But I figure at least one good thing comes out of that. At least my daughter Is staring at a screen less often then when she goes to visit grandma out in town. I’m just thankful the only thing I really use my phone Internet for his backyard chickens. I get service on the phone half the time at my house. Lol

I like the remoteness here to. I hardly used the internet until I sat here to edit my book.
Because editing is really really boring I thought I would join BYC while I sat here swearing.
So, It's all BYC's fault.