It seems that this site hangs quite often when its connecting to bravenet.com . Whats the deal with them? I know they are an advertising company but it seems like they are slowing things down a lot.

After clicking submit for posting this thread I went into an almost indefinte hang connecting to bravenet.com . The irony is thick...

I used to get that too

Now that I don't have the ads (because I'm a contributing member) it all loads fine

Peace...

To me it's the same problem, except it's burst.net.... There are still sad people on 56k, and this is really slowing things down...
-NSKL

Here are 4 quick tips that "could" help speed it up for you:
1) Get a local cache server
2) Install some sort of add blocker
3) Create a firewall rule to stop you accessing the domain
4) Stick the offending domain in your hosts file like:
127.0.0.1 bravenet.com burst.net
(note: you'll get 404 errors if you have a webserver running)

Remember you have done it if you do the last 2 - just incase you want to visit the domain for any reason.

I know you could also become a contributing member (I will do soon - Next pay day ) but this will work for other sites too.

Yeah, but I don't spend nearly the amount of time at other sites as I do here. I gladly paid the fee to be a contributing member to get rid of the ads

Cool

Another thread was posted recently about this. If it happens to you please send me a traceroute from your computer to the site in question so I can contact the appropriate people. Thanks.

--jeremy