I frequent eBay.co.uk. In recent months I;ve noticed a strange phenomenom, in that it can take a very long time for a page to load. I mean minutes. I have an ADSL cinnection, so it's not line speed, and indeed looking at my router during most of the delay there won't be any traffic. I get messages on the status line like this "completed 1 of 4 items : 2 errors".
The bizarre thing is that this beaviour varies from week to week. Last week, for example, the site was very responsive. Since their weekly Friday morning maintenance shut-down, it's been like treacle.
I've tried raising the issue with eBay but with no success at all - they won't even acknowledge it. Furthermore I'm pretty certain it's an external issue - it's the same using both Safari & IE on my PowerMac, Safari on the Lombard, and even IE5.5 on a PC laptop.
Does anyone else see such behaviour? Anyone got any suggestions as to why it happens? Reply off-list of you'd prefer not to take up list bandwidth.
Tom Burke
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