$$$MR. MARKET$$$'s Personal Homepage and Stock Portfolio

[mrmarket]

Sorry for the delay

I updated my personal homepage today...it's been a busy summer but since I anticipate a lot of changes in my portfolio I will try to do a better job of keeping it up to date:

http://members.aol.com/ebarsamian

[mrmarket]

Where you been Casino???

I got his page up but I had to click refresh 4 times before anything appeared.

Ernie...I recommend that you get a real host for your homepage...Oftentimes I have not been able to access your homepage either...A simple page is really cheap nowadays...Just a thought...Doug(IIC)

Any more specific suggestions?

[IIC]

Any more specific suggestions?

I don't know...I clicked on your link just now and it took almost 30 seconds to come up...and I have a fast connection...IIC

[billyjoe]

Doug,
It came up in less than 5 seconds for me. Maybe your computer is sick.

---------billyjoe

Just tried it again , 2-3 seconds !

[New-born baby]

I don't know...I clicked on your link just now and it took almost 30 seconds to come up...and I have a fast connection...IIC

Yes, it takes a good amount of time to come up for me, and I run a hot shot computer with a dual core radiator just to keep it cool. SSSS-LLLL-OOOOOOO-WWWWWWW.

[IIC]

Doug,
It came up in less than 5 seconds for me. Maybe your computer is sick.

---------billyjoe

Just tried it again , 2-3 seconds !

Well, that was at work...I just did it at home and it took over 45 seconds...Nobody else's site takes that long

[IIC]

Yes, it takes a good amount of time to come up for me, and I run a hot shot computer with a dual core radiator just to keep it cool. SSSS-LLLL-OOOOOOO-WWWWWWW.

Are you using Water Cooled???...I have a friend who does that with the colored bubbles

[Karel]

Not the speed of the computer, but the speed of the Internet connection might be the more important factor. $$$Mr.Market$$$'s homepage is HUGE, not surprisingly, and weighs in at over 360 KB. Over a modem line, it may take a minute or more to load. I have cable Internet

Regards,

Karel

[billyjoe]

Cable here also. Tried it today.....3 seconds. Mr.Market rocks!

-----------billyjoe

[casinoboy3]

I think it takes each of us a different amount of time to load due to the instability of AOL's web server. There's nothing on MM's page that should take more than a few seconds to load (maybe 10-15 seconds for dial-up). I don't know if its designed to handle that much traffic, or what the case is. I've had a lot of luck with Yahoo's Geocities, but again, I don't know how much traffic its designed for.

[billyjoe]

What's the explanation for Mr.Market's small number of winners this year? How does the market performance for '06 compare to those of '03 , '04 , and '05 ? Does anyone have that data ? Thanks

----------billyjoe

[The Photon]

Tiger football

how is the season going?

[IIC]

OK...I upgraded my DSL to Elite...Takes 3-5 days...so I'll see how it goes on the speed...I only had Express...then they have Pro and then Elite...I didn't know that...my wife never shows me the ads in the phone bill...But a buddy told me that he upgraded from Express to Pro and it was much faster.

So I get out the phone bill...log on and find out I can get Elite for a year at the same price I pay for Express (ATT/Yahoo)...IIC

[Karel]

Doug, more speed is certainly nice, but your Express should have been enough, it was already 15x faster than dial-up. And another poster said that 15 seconds max would be the limit for dial-up, with $$$Mr.Market$$$'s page. Now that is wrong: 360 KB / 15 seconds = 24 KB / second. No way to reach such speeds with dial-up. In practice dial-up speed tops out at 6KB/s (60,000 bps), and that is when you are lucky. So the AOL servers probably are part of the trouble. (When everybody comes home, fires up their computer and starts surfing to, among others, AOL member home pages, etc.)

I have a 3MB/1MB connection, downgraded from 8MB/1MB. 8MB/s download was really nice, but I didn't download enough DVD's to justify the expense

Regards,

Karel

[Karel]

Here is a connection speed test, for bragging points:

http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html?tag=nl.e776

I scored 2176 Kbps, but remember: my bits have to cross the big pond.

Regards,

Karel