Deere advert

[riptides]

I am curious as to YOUR connection methods to the internet Mike?

When I am at home, I rarely visit TBN due to the lack of a reliable high speed connection. In the middle of the land of high tech, I can only get broadband speeds via EVDO.... sometimes.

Since I travel with a laptop, and visit many places where connection speed type is not an issue, I really don't like to reconfigure my browers just because of some ad.

So, unfortunate, but while at home, I just have to avoid certain sites, sometimes.

-Mike Z.

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue"> Since I travel with a laptop, and visit many places where connection speed type is not an issue, I really don't like to reconfigure my browers just because of some ad. </font>
Just curious...

Why would you want Flash movies enabled regardless of connection speed?

 

[riptides]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Why would you want Flash movies enabled regardless of connection speed? )</font>

Annimations in presentations.

-Mike Z.

 

[MikePA]

Attached is what I see (highlighted in red) in Firefox with FlashBlock installed. If I want to see the Flash movie, I simply click on the 'f'. Nine times out of ten, I don't want to see it.

 

[riptides]

Great. But I am restrained by policy from running Firefox or any other browser on the laptop. Some of us have restrictions placed on our machines that will limit functionality and user experience. Even if we could change, those changes will be expunged dependant on where we are. Or, even worse, a change detection routine will alert and remedy your behavior accordingly.

-Mike Z.

 

[KiotiJohn]

If I had to use someone else's laptop that had restrictions, I'd buy my own laptop for my own surfing, otherwise, I'd just have to put up with what I get.

I feel bad for anyone who can't get a good speed on TBN, I don't suffer that problem most of the time. This morning, eveything is responding rather slowly, but I would assume that Ibrahim is maybe doing some tweaks, and that's not a big deal, it'll be better later.
John

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Great. But I am restrained by policy from running Firefox or any other browser on the laptop. Some of us have restrictions placed on our machines that will limit functionality and user experience. Even if we could change, those changes will be expunged dependant on where we are. Or, even worse, a change detection routine will alert and remedy your behavior accordingly.

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Can you not temporarily go 'manage apps' and just turn off flash plawer for the surfing session, and then re-enable it? Windows does not need to be restarted... it's just a toggle option under IE browser.

Soundguy

 

[Hakim]

Just FYI,

As of last week, the Deere campaign no longer runs the java animation. It should be showing just a static banner. It now loads maybe 1/5 of the resources as before.

There is routine server maintenance that runs via automated scripts overnight. If you come into TBN right when that is going on, you could experience significant slowdowns. But that usually lasts a short time.

Also there was some major work done on the multiple servers and databases that run TBN. I don't have all of the details, but in a word, things were "optimized."

I personally find far less hesitation on page loads. Things have improved for me, and they weren't so bad to start with. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[rockyridgefarm]

Good! Now all those guys will be so happy they will click the banner to show that Deere isn't wasting money supporting our favorite site. Probably want to buy a nice green tractor, too! Or not...

 

[PILOON]

Actually perhaps you should add an advertising 'surcharge' to Deere for that campaign.

I believe there is a saying in advertising that to be talked about no matter how bad is better than saying nothing.

Certainly the 'humping tractor' recieved a lot of attention.

And yes I loaded noticeably faster.