Why is TV sooooooooo slow?

[thaibeachlovers]

Everytime I do anything it takes soooooooo long for the page to load. Whether it's changing from one thread to another or entering a reply to a post, I have to wait ages. Seems to be related to the ads taking soooooooo long to load. Only website I use that has the problem. Everything else loads instantly like I expect these days. However, TV is like the internet 15 years ago- waiting, waiting, waiting.

Never used to be like this.

[thaibeachlovers]

Seems that either no one knows, or they're not telling.

[Maestro]

I don't have this problem on my PC, my phone and my tablet.

[samuijimmy]

Speed fairly normal (good) ... but what I have been getting this last week or so is it opens to what I would call a "skeleton page" not every thing showing and then have to refresh the page to get a normal view... (only on Thai Visa)

sometimes too lately, it "hangs" for several seconds, before loading either a good page or a skeleton view!~

Not sure what is causing that but can be a bit annoying !!! ?

Edited October 11, 2015 by samuijimmy

[thaibeachlovers]

I tried to post a reply, but the page disappeared for no good reason, and have to try multiple times to post. Completely unsatisfactory and only happening on TV.

[tx22cb]

Secret Beta testing of the Single Gateway functionality monitoring those naughty TVF members who are being too critical of the authorities?

[Maestro]

I am signed in on Thaivisa from Switzerland and on none of my devices is loading a page soooooooo slow nor does it take ages.

[thaibeachlovers]

Right now, TV is working perfectly for me. I suspect that when I was logged on last night was when a lot of people were using it. Therefore, IMO, TV just doesn't have the capacity to handle the number of people using it at peak times.

[gk10002000]

I agree it used to be very slow. I had a crappy old 2005 year Toshiba laptop with little RAM and TV was horrendous. In Thailand, where I hop onto the internet using their computers at the cafes it was also slow. Here at work I have an HP Elite laptop and no issues at all. Click and go. At home I have a similar newer HP laptop and no issues. At home I run AVIRA as my anti virus real time protection and AdBLocker on Firefox. That's about it. I disable popups too. I don't think internet bandwidth is a big issue, unless you are using some very poor service

[thaibeachlovers]

I agree it used to be very slow. I had a crappy old 2005 year Toshiba laptop with little RAM and TV was horrendous. In Thailand, where I hop onto the internet using their computers at the cafes it was also slow. Here at work I have an HP Elite laptop and no issues at all. Click and go. At home I have a similar newer HP laptop and no issues. At home I run AVIRA as my anti virus real time protection and AdBLocker on Firefox. That's about it. I disable popups too. I don't think internet bandwidth is a big issue, unless you are using some very poor service

Are all the ads on TV pop ups? How can I disable them?

I am using a 1 year old HP laptop and have no problem with any other sites, so not the ISP.

[thaibeachlovers]

PS I just found the pop up blocker and it was set to block already. Any other way to block all the ads?

[stevenl]

PS I just found the pop up blocker and it was set to block already. Any other way to block all the ads?

TV prefers it if the advertisers are visible and not blocked. This is therefore not subject to discussion.

[Maestro]

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