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Posted: 11 December 2005 at 10:56pm | IP Logged

whenever i go into chat after it keeps timing out. does anypne know why this is. my computer is old and slow if this makes any difference i dont know. also ive been trying to put a photo as an avatar(?) and it says the photo is too big. any help or advice appreciared. thanks ladies

Posted: 11 December 2005 at 11:06pm | IP Logged

Here is a post that may help with Chat

http://www.madmums.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2088&PN =1

Please make sure you follow the link to check your current version of the Flash Plugin, if you have an older version currently installed this will cause you issues.

As for avatar sizes if you are struggling to resize the image then send it to me admin@madmums.com and I will do it for you and then add it to your profile.

Posted: 30 December 2005 at 8:58pm | IP Logged

thanks for your help flip. i have gotten the right version but its still not working right. when i type something in it seemds to take ages for it to come up in the dialogue bbox before i even press enter. should i give up now or is it easily solved?

Posted: 30 December 2005 at 9:21pm | IP Logged

It can be a little laggy depending on how our web server is performing, we have quite a few issues recently with the site running slow, there is nothing I can do about this but keep nagging our hosts.

The main chat-room basically communicates with the server every 3 seconds when everything is running at 100%, occasionally, if the server is under load one of these requests from you, the client, to the server can get dropped or lost meaning it's not uncommon to have a period of 6 seconds where nothing appears to happen, giving the appearance you described above, I know it is far from ideal but it as the moment the most economical solution we have. Other factors that will effect the chat-room performance are the speed and quality of your internet connection as well as the speed of your PC.

The chatterbox (my own little creation) works slightly differently, this basically **refreshes the page every 10 seconds or when you send a message if this is between the 10 second refreshes. Now if 3 people all post a message within the 10 second interval, all 3 of these messages will appear on your screen at once, members were used to this but since we installed the full chat room, I've seen several complaining that the chatterbox is not working correctly or is slow, it's not slow it just works differently (as explained above) to the main chat-room, it is also not designed to be used as chat room it is simply a quick form of communicating short messages to other visitors to the site.

**For the chatterbox to automatically refresh new messages every 10 seconds you need to switch the refresh on using the button, if refresh if off new messages will only appear every time you change or manually refresh the page.

HTH

Posted: 30 December 2005 at 10:24pm | IP Logged

You may also find the smaller your computer processor, the harder it is for main chat to work. I have a processor of just under 500 and it can be really slow, another member has just under 300 and cant get on at all.

To find out your processor size left click on my computer on your desk top and select properties. It will give you you computer properties, the processor will be the one with MHz after it.

I think the ideal for the chat room is 500MHz, but flip will be able to confirm that  sorry if Ive not been much help.

ps: I found the Pixresizer works great for uploading photos on here (thanks flip!!!)

Posted: 06 April 2006 at 11:02am | IP Logged

I agree as well as processor speed it can also depend on how much memory you have installed in your PC, and an upgrade could help.

You can check the memory, by right Click on My computer (on desktop) and select Properties The size will be in Mb ....

either 128Mb 256Mb or 512Mb, 1Gb

Posted: 06 April 2006 at 11:10am | IP Logged

This is an old thread now. If anyone has any problems with this sort of thing, please post again and we'll try and help out.