The whole WC site has been painfully slow for me since mid Sunday. Sunday I had been downloading and installing some free antivirus apps but I am now back to my original set-up and if I remember correctly I did that after site started being slow to have something to do. This is the only site I am having issues with. Some images are not loading, page load times are at times over 1 min.. I am on a 5 meg DSL service. I did some test downloads from MS, download rates are 520 KB per sec. as is normal for me.

Here is a screeny of the home page, you can see I am logged in but in the top block there is ad space at the top and bottom of it but no adds, images for galleries and WC store not loaded.

Post 3, no edit button

Forgot to mention FF 3.0.1.

After my last post loaded this page so it would be cached by FF, went back to forums page loaded it again, it took just over 50 seconds.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping irc.stardcok.com
Ping request could not find host irc.stardcok.com. Please check the name and try
 again.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping wincustomize.com

Pinging wincustomize.com [66.28.242.218] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.28.242.218: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=118
Reply from 66.28.242.218: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=118
Reply from 66.28.242.218: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=118
Reply from 66.28.242.218: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=118

Ping statistics for 66.28.242.218:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 21ms, Maximum = 25ms, Average = 22ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping stardock.com

Pinging stardock.com [209.124.63.233] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.124.63.233: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=116
Reply from 209.124.63.233: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=116
Reply from 209.124.63.233: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=116
Reply from 209.124.63.233: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=116

Ping statistics for 209.124.63.233:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 35ms, Maximum = 36ms, Average = 35ms

Ontario Canada

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Blast no edit button again, typo fixed that Hankers pointed out

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping irc.stardock.com

Pinging irc.stardock.com [38.98.152.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 38.98.152.138:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>

Since for Hankers and myself issues seem to be sites wide I will add this here

Just went to respond to a comment on one of my skins but alas cannot (see pic)

I am having the exact problem that you are having.  I am running vista 64 and have tried all the browsers.  The site is very slow to load and not all the icons load.  I have no problem connecting from my work PC.  I have never had this issue before Sunday.  I even tried a different restore point to see if I affected the connection.  It is still not working.  I also have flushed the DNS cache and tried deleting history and computer cache.  Please let me know if I should try something different.

Without getting technical as I don't know enough to do so, but I am in Scotland and experiencing the same problems as Cavan1, my whole wincustomise experience is taking a serious entertainment dive as a result, not that I would ever stop using it, but the slowness and missing images is really a drag, is there anything we can try to rectify or is it go to submit a ticket time???

Good to know. Been waiting for it to clear up here too.

re: the me too moderation...

Sorry , didn't know what else to put, other than the different tools I used to come to the same concusion.

I have submitted a trace route of my own via email. Hopefully it will help to figure out where in the world the problem is stemming from.

and if not, it will show that I can access other sites that have similar graphic content and an irc server as well.

can't edit, but apologise for the missing L in conclusion I didn't mean concussion

Same problem here its ben a few days and its taking forever to load pages, hell it took me 2 minutes just to be able to type this because it took so long to load.

It helps if you read the thread........see #14

hmmm....

I wonder how many of us are using verizon to connect that are having this issue......

possibly a verizon issue??