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GM-Tech Senior Enthusiast

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Anyone else experiencing problems accessing GM-Trucks or this forum? I've written the admin twice about this problem but have gotten no response. I'll tell ya, I'm about to give up coming here.

 

I come her a lot as you might imagine. A large portion of the time is spent with IE "Waiting for http://gm-trucks..." or wherever I may be trying to go here. I just don't have the time or the patience (mostly no patience!) to sit here for 20 minutes trying over and over again to access a post or the forum itself.

 

This all started several weeks ago and has not improved. Sometimes it works perfectly fine, other times it's as if the site is being hit by a DOS attack. I am 99.9% sure it's not a problem on my end since I don't have this problem anywhere else. In fact, while I'm waiting endlessly, I'll often open another tab in IE and go somewhere else. That "somewhere else" works perfectly fine while the icon in the GM-Trucks tab just sits there, spinning away waiting for access.

 

I realize most probably don't come here as often as I do so may not have run into this problem, but if you have, let me know. Thanks!

vxaxv17 Enthusiast

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I am seeing the same thing here. I thought it might have been my connection at work, but it happens at home as well. Its especially annoying when you submit as post and then it sits there for 5 minutes saying waiting for gm-trucks.com...... then it just times out. Never can tell if the post actually went through or not. Judging by some of the double posts i've seen lately on here, i'd say others are seeing it as well. Yes, it is quite annoying.

GM-Tech Senior Enthusiast

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Its especially annoying when you submit as post and then it sits there for 5 minutes saying waiting for gm-trucks.com...... then it just times out. 

 

EXACTLY! Nothing worse than me spending 15 minutes composing a reply only to lose all that work to this problem. I've gotten into the habit of doing a copy into the clipboard of my post before I actually try to post it. That way I don't have to retype the whole d**n thing. I just paste it into a new response.

vxaxv17 Enthusiast

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Its especially annoying when you submit as post and then it sits there for 5 minutes saying waiting for gm-trucks.com...... then it just times out. 

 

EXACTLY! Nothing worse than me spending 15 minutes composing a reply only to lose all that work to this problem. I've gotten into the habit of doing a copy into the clipboard of my post before I actually try to post it. That way I don't have to retype the whole d**n thing. I just paste it into a new response.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope it gets resolved soon. I would hate to have it cause you and all the other helpful members here to go somewhere else. This forum has way too much helpful information here for it to go to waste.

Mark_in_Tulsa Senior Enthusiast

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My suggestion would be to clear your PM's, (sent ones, deleted ones,....etc. all of them)

If you are subscribing to several threads you may want to erase those.

 

If you have a link or a picture in your sig, that will slow you down.

You also may want to in your profile/board options make it where you can't see other sigs, and or avatars. That will speed it up a bit.

 

Good luck.

GM-Tech Senior Enthusiast

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My suggestion would be to clear your PM's, (sent ones, deleted ones,....etc. all of them)

If you are subscribing to several threads you may want to erase those.

 

If you have a link or a picture in your sig, that will slow you down.

You also may want to in your profile/board options make it where you can't see other sigs, and or avatars. That will speed it up a bit.

 

Good luck.

 

 

 

 

Huh? This is not a slowness issue, this is the site can't be accessed issue. I don't see what PM's, avatars, subscriptions, etc., has to do with that. Besides, I have zero PM's, I don't subscribe to threads and the 2k gif I have as an avatar certainly ain't doing this intermittently.

 

But thanks for the suggestions.

gmcjoe Senior Enthusiast

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I get here almost daily and have not had any access issues in quite some time.

I access from both work and home using both IE 6 & 7 :banghead:

vxaxv17 Enthusiast

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I didnt notice it either until i started checking the site 10-15 times a day. Unless you visit often, the chances of seeing a problem are very slim. I'd say maybe 30% of the time the site times out. As in type www.gm-trucks.com and hit enter. Wait for 3-4 minutes with the browser saying "waiting for gm-trucks.com......" then it just stops without loading the page. Sometimes if i refresh it after that it comes right up like there was never a problem. Other times i get to wait another 3 or 4 minutes. It is definitely hit or miss and like i said, unless you try to access the site very often (at least a couple times a day) you probably will not notice it.

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