Ads causing site havoc again?

[Snoopy]

For the last week or so I have been unbale to display threads in sharetrader via my dial up account. I can download pages as far as the list of topics on each forum. Then when I click on a particular topic, the loading bar on the bottom RHS of the screen goes all the way across and the screen just hangs blankly. I can view the thread only by disconnecting my dial up connection at this point.

Then all the posts appear, but I get a message 'cannot connect to ad server' where the ad should be. In some ways I don't mind as it means I will never see any of your ads ever again. But do your advertisers realise that with your current system, possibly you entire remaining dial up audience has ad blank glasses on, possibly for good? I use the K-meleon browser, which is a lite version of Mozilla.

I should add that Sharetrader is the only site I have struck that behaves like this. Sharechat is O.K.

This ad sticking problem has reared its ugly head again. I guess I am one of the few that still uses dial up. At the moment each page of sharetrader takes me 6 and one half minutes to load. At that point I get a message 'script is not responding' do you wish to cancel? I then click 'yes' and my screen is unfrozen and the top of the screen filled with an error message 'cannot contact ad server'. I have no idea what ad is causing this because of course I cannot see it.

A few weeks ago I was down at the library using broadband and even there a single page of sharetrader text took ninety seconds to load. As I have said before, sharetrader is the only website where I have this problem. The question is why burden what is fundamentally a text site with such heavy advertising graphics? It just ruins the browsing experience, and as I indicated earlier alienates your dial up customers at heavy cost to your sponsors because dial up users cannot read your ads at all! Is this really the best you can do?

SNOOPY