Adobe.com performance issues

I use the Lightroom forums and find them very slow.

They are slow to the point that I think they are having a negative effect on the Beta.

I am not searching as often as I would if the forums were faster and I am limiting what I do in general. Others must be doing the same thing.

This has nothing to do with line speed of all the other forums that I visit Adobe is negatively outstanding.

Right now (12:32 CDT) calling up a thread on the Lightroom general discussion board is s-l-o-w.

I've had slow downs on nntp. Sometimes there seems to be no response
when asking for the next message. Sometimes it appears, but very slowly.

Mike

On dialup during the last 45 minutes, there have been random hiccups here, where nothing happens for a couple of seconds at a time, then all works well, then delay again. I can switch to another site and load a page, so it's not just my connection.

I actually moved Bob's message here from another discussion. Sorry about the confusion.

John

Bob, I find that Safari is also slow. It seems to be a problem with how the page is rendered while the stylesheets are being downloaded (so the page looks crap, jumps around, then looks OK). IIRC, it was reported here earlier.

IE/Win, OTOH, appears to load everything before rendering the page, so you're left with a disconcerting white page, then everything appears at once.

I know this is OT but here are some I have attempted to report. All are painfully slow from my vantage point about 40 miles west of Chicago.

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/index.html

The next one REALLY gets bogged down:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/

And the transition from the previous one to this one sometimes just flat times out:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=589&entercat=y

I am using a 1.8 GHz G5 desktop with 1.5 GB of RAM. The network is Comcast which is blazing fast. My browser is Safari.

Bob Peters