Post your page loading times

In the WebX forums, when they were functioning at their best, going from one thread to another one or replying to a post was as fast as changing channels on cable TV with a remote.  Never more than a fraction of a second.

Here, it's always more like when the WebX were experiencing slow-downs, before someone gave the servers a smart kick in the side.  At least a few seconds to load a page, and replying seems to take forever, as does editing a post.

To the actual delays, you have to add the time wasted going back to the top of a page because of the lack of breadcrumbs at the bottom, time wasted navigating to the last-read post in a thread, the slow typing in the reply box, etc.

I stand by my educated-guess determination that these new forums are about 30 times slower overall:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/417383?tstart=60

After four [now nine] days of using the new Jive forums, I've come to the conclusion that I have dedicated about three times the usual amount of time to the Adobe forums and have accomplished less than one tenth of what I used to do in a similar amount of time.  This works out to a ratio of 30 to 1 in terms of how much better the old forum format performed in comparison to what we've ended up with here so far. I'm basing this calculation on the number of hours spent here since last Sunday versus the few satisfying threads I have been able to read as well as the remarkably little assistance I've been able to give. These results are naturally somewhat skewed by such things as the proportionally inordinate amount of time spent in the Forum Comments forum as well as reading and commenting on forum complaints on the other forums I've visited, to wit:  Photoshop Macintosh, Bridge Macintosh, Camera Raw, DNG, Color Management, Photography, Typography, Type, Illustrator, InDesign and this Forum Comments forums. While this is a conclusion based on my subjective use of the forums and will necessarily be different than what other users experience, it does give me a somewhat quantifiable measure of the magnitude of the problem as it affects me personally.

Well, speedtest.net says this cable connection is 17Mbps down and 7.7 up, which is pretty fast. And a 32 response thread loads in about 5-6 seconds.

But web page "load times" are pretty hard to compare from computer to computer. There are just so many variables...

My load times are all over the map just like with the WebCrossing forums.

I'm on a very fast Comcast cable system (20 mega-bit/sec burst rates!).

from Romania with a so called 5Mb/s connection i load about any page around here in about 4-5 seconds including main forum pages, this page, the home page, etc so i'd say there's something wrong on your end

Wow.  Nothing that bad here.  I'm at work - I don't know what the actual connection is, but it's slower than my comcast cable at home.  It's definitely slower than the old forum, but not 30 seconds slow.  More like 8 (just counting in my head) for an index and 2-3 for a thread.

Stock install of Safari 4 beta, osx10.4, dual 2.7g5