Fencer:Never say never

alanback: he didn't say never, he said always.

nodnarbo: REMEMBER this site is BUG free:)))

nodnarbo:"always a local problem" = "never a server problem"

alanback: all I know is it has to be something wrong cause all the other sites i play in work fine but here it is taking forever to load the site then the games and i am in the usa and I talked to a friend who is in the UK and she says its slow too the last few days not to mention the darn dragon that locks up from time to time and makes a black page so i have to reload it..something is definately wrong here

BadBoy7: I've always had problems with the javascript stuff on this site, but haven't had a problem lately - but then again, I have a lot of stuff turned off in my settings.

If you have not, check out this old post of mine:

Computers (coan.net, 2007-03-12 20:16:01)

You can also turn off the Dragon - I think it is the "Enable style animations" in settings - uncheck that. Turning that off helped me A LOT - I could not even play on the site if I was wanting to do anything else with my pc like watch a movie.... BrainKing just took all the processing time away from everything else.... but once I turned off that dragon, I haven't had any issues since.

BadBoy7: I came back on a different way with Firefox by passing explorer. Now its fast again for me.

BadBoy7: That's not true. I've made a speed test using an independent service and it proves that the connection is very fast from some places in USA, while it is significantly slower from other locations. Which means that the site is OK and the problem is with your ISP line to Europe or something like that.

http://host-tracker.com/check_res_ajx/2292559-0/share/

Just to be more precise: Philadephia, Orlando or Washington show less than 1 second response (actually the average time is about half a second) and two other places seem to have a connectivity problem because their response times exceed 4 seconds. This is just an example, the test cannot cover all places around the world, of course.

This reply does not mean that nobody has a problem to get to BrainKing but it should be a recommendation to everyone who thinks that to blame BrainKing is always the right thing to do. Please don't do it (especially at public boards) if you cannot make a qualified evaluation of the situation. Thank you.

Fencer:Only once in a while are things slow for me.  Mostly they are very fast.  So fast that I have to revert back to dial up just to keep up!  ;)  j/k 

I'll say this.  I use Explorer when I'm at work and that browser is horrible on BK.  Firefox is great and people who are having trouble but insist on using Explorer are missing out.  Firefox is the way to go.  That is the FIRST thing folks should do.  Chrome is fast too but I prefer FireFox. 

Artful Dodger: I know that Internet Explorer is a very strange piece of software because sometimes it does not show any page at all and just gets frozen (not only with BrainKing but any other page I try). I hope that the version 8 will become more stable but until then, I really don't recommend to use this browser unless you have no other choice.
Google Chrome is definitely the fastest one, at the moment.

Fencer:Interesting.  Looks like the Western US is not well served.  I wonder why they didn't include major cities on the West Coast (LA, San Francisco) in their list.  Or Las Vegas, for that matter.