Christ First Forum

Dial-up is dial-up and is only going to be so fast, its not a function of your forum but of their connection to the internet. The only way to speed them up would be to buy them a cable or dsl connection. I expect many other places seem slow for them too.

It used to be that websites and forums and all were tuned to dial-up connections because everyone had them. Now dial-up is in the minority and sites are tuned to the faster broader banned connections. Dial-up will be slowed further by large or intense graphics and images, video and music players and animation. You can tune towards their needs by picking a style that is not image intensive, keep posts of images small or remove them completely, that sort of thing.

Getting kicked off is usually a software or a cookie issue. Occasionally, it's also a DNS issue if they are not reaching pages at all. The following takes you through first dealing with software and cookie issues and then, if needed, with DNS issues:

If you could follow these steps, in order, one after the other and check if each works before going on (unless it says not to check and go on to the next step).


If you are running any type of Web Accelerator turn it off, either for your forum site (if it allows site by site settings) or turn it off while connecting to and being on your forum. Proceed with the next step before testing to see if this resolved your issue. If you do not have a Web Accelerator installed, go to the next step.

If that does not work, close your browser windows, even those windows not associated with your forum, then restart your browser.

If that does not help, try rebooting your computer.

If that did not help, try deleting all cookies using browser options in case you have more then one cookie conflicting.

If that did not help, check your firewall software and make sure that the firewall software has not blocked the site. In most cases software firewalls have a list of the connections that it blocks. You may need to tell your firewall that it can allow the connection.

If that did not help, set your forum as a trusted site under tools internet options > security. You may need to uncheck the 'always use https so that you can enter your forum http://URL. (You can recheck after adding your site URL).

If that does not help, shut down your computer and hub/router (if you have one) and modem and wait at least 60 seconds and then turn the modem back on. Wait until it is connected and receiving data. Then start your router/hub and wait until you know it is receiving data and then start your computer.

If that does not help, try another browser, or, better yet, try another computer and another browser, one that has not been to your site before. If it works in another browser/computer then you probably have some old DNS settings that are not being changed out for new ones, and nothing above has been able to do so. In this case you may just have to wait a few days for the DSN issues to resolve.

You can wait a few days while using the other browser/computer or go to www.opendns.com and force a DNS change.
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