CEP - just wanted to start out by saying that you have done a most excellent job with this site. My hats off to you for providing all of us Gatch and Gatch related lovers with a place to call home.. Now, on to the problem at hand. I am having serious access problems. Up until last night, I had no problems what so ever. I thought it was my home computer. But, now I am here at work ( yep..my bad), and it takes about 30 secs for the site to load. I try to access some of the threads from both the Home Page as well as the Forum page, and the thread never loads. I know that this was touched on in the SLOOOOOW thread, but I could not even load that one to see if there were any solutions. Please help! I am dying over here. I usually access this site about 2 or 3 times/ hour during the work day to see whats going on. This site helps me get through day...

grin .. oh yeah, i KNOW that description. not the slow factor (which i've got too) but the whole "gotta check again and see if i missed anything!" syndrome. i'm trying to wean myself of the habit, but its hard letting go.

Ah yes! I tell myself every morning that I am going to wait until the lunch hour to log on. I think the longest that I held out was about 1/2 hour. I know one of these days I am going to get caught writing fanfic. Although, I do write software documentation, so the chances are slim. However, I did spend a good portion of my afternoon on Chat yesterday. As of right now, internet activity is not observed in the office. Our Network Administrator is my good friend and he surfs more than I do. He promised to let me know if the higher ups ever want to monitor.... I guess I have resigned myself to the fact that I surrender to the strength of the Gatchaman. It is my weakness...

Hehe.... I read an article not too long ago on addiction to the Internet. That was one of the big symtoms of addiction. Proof that one can become a junkie on just about anything. (In fact, I'll find info on it, and start a new thread so as not to sidetrack the existing topic at hand...)

Your not the only person hun, for the first time El'Ceppo had problems but it wasnt speed as so much I couldn't even access the site from work but now I am home its fine. I am just wondering whether its our host.

It's very odd, while I was checking the site before going to work I was getting times of over a minute to load some threads which is far slower than I've experienced before. Not so bad at the moment though, I think this one took 20 seconds or so. And I know what you mean about checking the site often for a Gatchamania fix I did try to keep it to every 2 hours while access was being monitored at work, but now it's every time I'm bored, or every time I've thought myself into a rut... or just whenever I feel like it. Which can be very often, some days...

Next time any of you get problems accessing the site (not the slow down I mean actually getting the site to load) please record the times for me.