Is it just my PC or is Mumsnet slower lately?

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Pages are taking ages to load/refresh....

I may end up internet shopping while I'm waiting and will have to ask Mnet to fit the bill for any Jimmy Choos I may order.....

ooh! I can help you I think! IMO it's those blinking ads slowing down the pages- a lot of them are flash movies so when you load a page you're waiting for the ads to load which takes the time. A nice dad on here pointed me in the direction of an ad blocker which has really helped me, but it's a mozilla firefox thing so if you're using internet explorer I can't help after all!!!

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I still use the classic view and it's fine. And I'm on dial-up.

me too today

Really slow here, and if I click on 'topic list' nothing happens at all!

It's gawful

mine is really slow today I am playing 2 games of bubblets whilst waiting for the page to refresh.

Very slow for me today. It keeps loading up blank pages and I have to refresh several times to see the page.

Mine too is really crap today and it is the ads as I get the banner ad on top and then a blank screen below for about a minute If I wasn't such a hardened addict I might lose paitence.....

topic list working again

get firefox, then instal and ad blocker, slow for me on ie for ages now.

Mine's very slow atm, though I think it's partly to do with my rubbish wireless card which is only managing to give me 18Mbps right now but has never managed more than 54Mbps (dh is getting up to 100Mbps on the other side of the room, but he's not wireless). I use firefox and will try this ad blocker, see what happens.

Ooh I think my laptop heard me complaining - it's gone up to 24Mbps!

It's awful today - never known it so bad.

My speed massively improved (I mean absolutely hugely) when I adblocked doubleclick, wunderloop and google-analytics. Doubleclick was the main problem, it was awful. I didn't like doing because the revenue must be important for running MN but it was bad enough that I did almost give up MN.

How do I block double click ??

so slow it is almost impossible to use

lol I just spotted this thread and it's taken the best part of five minutes to open it so a resounding 'yes'!

I'm on Mozilla Firefox on a Mac and I'm sure it's the ads. I've tried an adblocker but, tbh, it only seemed to get worse. Will try the doubleclick thing now. Thanx.

Oh bliss, the ads are all gone, soooo much quicker

So pleased to (finally) read this thread. Have had to refresh 3 times and nothing would open. Have now followed the instructions to block the ads and it is working again (phew!)

I'm on Mozilla and (touch wood) so far no problems.

I've done both the addons mentioned in yetihead's linked thread and it's much much quicker - this with a connection speed down to 11Mbps!

Thanks everyone.[emoticon for happy]

i installed this on firefox to block ads.

really though i don't know what's happening, it's been bad for me for months (on ie)

How do you get rid of them without installing Firefox? It's a work laptop, so don't want to install anything. I'm about to give up with MN - I'm refreshing each page about three times before I see anything. So slow...