I seem to have a problem here and my hubby says my pc is OK.

It takes absolutely ages for each page to load. I have tried logging off and restarting the computer but it is still slow. I have tried a different times of the day and I still have the same problem. Sometimes it takes so long I get logged out (mind you I get logged out several times a session) and my screen saver comes up.

I now have to copy what I write every time so I don't loose it when I try to post - it's getting really frustrating.

Any ideas

ps it just happended now when trying to post this thread

Miruvor's advice is good, I used to find using my system monitor (under sytem tools under accessories), that my CPU was running at 100% and I wasn't running any programs. I installed ad-aware and 'spybot search and destroy' each of which I run weekly and I seldom find that problem anymore. I am also using the AVG 7.0 Plus Firewall that scans my computer daily for viruses rather than just once a week like Symantec's Norton did. Now if I could just get a good SPAM blocker to get rid of all the pharmaceutical and replica watch ads.

I still find sometimes P-T can't be reached once in a while during a session, like it did Saturday afternoon my time, first thing Sunday morning GMT/UTC, at which times after I get out of the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and then go back in, and if P-T still isn't there, I call it a day and try again the next day. My frustration quotion is only so high, I can only take so much

Anyway good luck with your problem. Oh I have broadband which means I normally only have to wait for a few seconds for a page to load, when I don't have to wait for P-T to answer its phone.

Then it must be a problem with the server on the P-T end, which is out of our control. Does the problem happen often or just once in a while? How many members are online when it happens? Actually, I'm just gathering info here, because I wouldn't know how to fix it even if I knew the cause of the problem. Sorry.

Makes us sound like a big fat bloated catapillar that's waiting to metamorphasise into a beautiful moth.

Something which will help the logging out problem, Maydmarion, is to swap your browser from Internet Explorer to Mozilla. This site has had logging out issues with IE since Taz built it. It's very rare I get logged out using Mozilla. Since I use Mozilla for PT and IE for most other things, I've also set my Mozilla homepage as PT so it brings me instantly here.