Author Topic: Ad's you didn't even notice. (Read 439 times)

Jubel · March 10, 2011, 09:46:57 PM

Once again I was subject to a mystical add that popped up without noticed, and I was trying to download something that would take about a minute, and Chrome said 6 hours left. In a panic, I turned off the Xbox, thinking it absorbed more internet than I thought sitting at a menu screen. The speed still stuck at 50 b/s. I slide up the taskbar to see whats running, just fraps, chrome, and some goddamn french ad promoting something that translated to literature help or something.

God damnit.

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Jetlok · March 10, 2011, 09:49:18 PM

sometimes on somethingawful this cooking ad pops up and a video runs explaining how to cook something which I didn't bother getting the name of
is crazy bro

Flush535 · March 10, 2011, 09:54:58 PM

Get Adblock. Also try restarting Chrome/see if anyone else is download something. Oh yeah, and how big was the file?

Jubel · March 10, 2011, 10:01:40 PM

Quote from: Flush535 on March 10, 2011, 09:54:58 PM

Get Adblock. Also try restarting Chrome/see if anyone else is download something. Oh yeah, and how big was the file?

1mb.

I just closed the ad, and it fixed. I'm just sick of this happening and getting yelled at by my mom for yelling at my sister.

Dropshock · March 10, 2011, 10:03:08 PM

...How does an ad slow down your internet that much? That doesn't make any sense.
Aren't most ads images and flash files? It should only have to download the image/flash, and the it would stop using your internet.

Jubel · March 10, 2011, 10:06:26 PM

Quote from: Dropshock on March 10, 2011, 10:03:08 PM

...How does an ad slow down your internet that much? That doesn't make any sense.
Aren't most ads images and flash files? It should only have to download the image/flash, and the it would stop using your internet.

My internet is as slow as forget already, it peaks at an average of 15kb/s. Sometimes I get "lucky" and get a peak at 22kb/s, but extremely rarely.
That's what I get for living in the beautiful forest.

Dropshock · March 10, 2011, 10:07:51 PM

Wow, damn. And at times I feel like 2.5 mb/s is slow.
Hope you get some better internet some day, man.

Jubel · March 10, 2011, 10:11:56 PM

Quote from: Dropshock on March 10, 2011, 10:07:51 PM

Wow, damn. And at times I feel like 2.5 mb/s is slow.
Hope you get some better internet some day, man.

I've learned to live with it, however when my sister's iTouch comes it the speed bounces down a hill to 2kb/s.
And I will when I can afford an apartment.