Comments on: Entrecards Kills My DSL Connection

By: Kathy@brazoscowgirl

Kathy@brazoscowgirl — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:45:27 +0000

I did download Foxfire, it is much more stable than IE. Matter of fact I can actually load a few pages and not get frozen.

By: Kathy@brazocowgirl

Kathy@brazocowgirl — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:08:25 +0000

I am thinking of ending my relationship with entrecard. It may not be a great thing for me to keep wasting my time trying to attempt to get more credit when 1/2 the time I spend is unaccounted for.

By: anajz

anajz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:48:24 +0000

I have a blogger friend that lives about 18 miles from me who has no trouble whatsoever…so I don’t know what the deal is. I was beginning to think it was all in my head. Glad that I am in such GREAT company! :)

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:42:06 +0000

I have no idea, i only started EC today? I love your lay out though, thats what attracted me to your site.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:36:01 +0000

What an odd thing. I have some problems with FF but nothing like that with EC and the DSL connection. I hope you find something that works. Maybe you should send an email to Ben Barden. He is a mod at EC now and has a lot of tech experience. Should know about both sides of the problem.

I adore your template with the leaves and ladybugs. Meant to leave a note about that some day. :)

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:44:56 +0000

All the comments surprised me– I didn’t know I had so many in company!

From what I gathered from the Entrecard dudes at that old forum thread, they suspect it may be a filter from certain ISPs (Verizon) who see the card dropping as bit torrent activity. Therefore, they interrupt the transmission so that people are downloading huge chunks of data. One guy at the forum thread said that EC needed to do something with their messy code, or something like that.

The forum thread was from long ago. I think only two people have complained about this issue, and I doubt the EC dudes are looking into it, especially since they have been working hard on other major problems recently. Who knows? But it looks like we have all done things to work around it!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:02:54 +0000

I’ve got Time Warner cable and often have problems with sites not loading initially, or needing to be refreshed two or three or four times before I can find the EC widget. Maybe it is a problem with our providers trying to filter out the crap on sites, because I have this problem on both computers, in all three browsers I use (IE7, FF2, FF3).

By: Deborah Robinson

Deborah Robinson — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:59:28 +0000

I’m sorry to hear you are all having so many problems with Entrecard. I live in Australia and I’ve had no problems with Entrecard, so the problem must be isolated to the internet in North America.

By: anajz

anajz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:12:38 +0000

Well, I came back to add that now I cannot even click into cards on the sites after I drop. Went to another page to drop, and it said invalid instead of thanks..and now I am only seeing an error “x” in the section you click to drop.

By: anajz

anajz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:00:34 +0000

I have had so many problems with my computer since beginning with EC. My computer freezes and I cannot use all functions. Pages open slowly..and I have to keep logging back in to EC. It is very frustrating.