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anthony
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People have mentioned often that they sit on the forum and type, type, type for a while, writing out a long post, then when they hit submit on their computer, suddenly they are asked to log in again or the forum loses their data through reloading, etc etc....
Here are the reasons why, and none of them are forum related.
"Remember Me"
When you log in the system places a cookie on your computer. If you have not ticked the checkbox beside the login telling the forum to remember you permanently, then this data is not placed in the cookie on your computer for the forum and your computer to communicate securely. This is how the forum software recognises you as being you, and not someone else. Tick the box for starters if you don't fit the next fault.
"Wireless Connection"
Here is the big one... wireless connection is not actually connected all the time between your computer and the wireless router / ISP direct if you have mobile wireless to the ISP. Your computer actually suspends / disconnects the connection if idle. It is still there in the background, but when it recognises activity again, ie. you click submit on your very long post, the problem is that you are no longer actually connected with the forum, thus the forum software has logged you out and requires you to log in again, thus refreshing the actual real page online over your cached page you have been typing into on your computer. Logging in is as simple as your cookie stored on your computer doing it for you in a second or two in the background... you just see lost information. If you didn't have the remember me button checked, you would actually find yourself being asked to login again as the system went idle in your session, thus you click submit and the software doesn't recognise you.
Wireless connections are not "always on" even when you may set them up to be that way... your computer, often Windows or OSX, will put the connection in idle, so that when you activate it again it takes that extra second or two to load the first page because the connection resets from idle to connect once again. This is something many cannot control, it is also done from the ISP. Yes, you can often change this, though I am not going to talk anyone through it, instead you must seek help from your ISP or online, this is not a computer help forum. You can often change these in your network settings when establing a connection and more importantly, within your modem/router, though again, sometimes even adjusting your hard settings will do nothing as your ISP may override any setting they want, and you really won't know what they do. They often do this so their bandwidth is reduced with only active connections, not people just letting their system sit on idle. Have a million users all sitting in an active idle state, and the bandwidth goes through the roof, compared to them simply cutting a connection after x amount of time which takes all of a second or two to reactivate when you move the mouse / click a link, etc.
"Best Connection"
The best possible connection you can have, is when you have your router / modem set so it never goes to idle, you have a hard connection (cable) to your system and you have checked the "remember me" box next to the username and password fields. This is undoubetly the most secure and stable connection to ANY online forum, as all forums work the same way and use the same methods to keep connected.
I hope that helps some, those who often have disconnections from writing to posting.
Here are the reasons why, and none of them are forum related.
"Remember Me"
When you log in the system places a cookie on your computer. If you have not ticked the checkbox beside the login telling the forum to remember you permanently, then this data is not placed in the cookie on your computer for the forum and your computer to communicate securely. This is how the forum software recognises you as being you, and not someone else. Tick the box for starters if you don't fit the next fault.
"Wireless Connection"
Here is the big one... wireless connection is not actually connected all the time between your computer and the wireless router / ISP direct if you have mobile wireless to the ISP. Your computer actually suspends / disconnects the connection if idle. It is still there in the background, but when it recognises activity again, ie. you click submit on your very long post, the problem is that you are no longer actually connected with the forum, thus the forum software has logged you out and requires you to log in again, thus refreshing the actual real page online over your cached page you have been typing into on your computer. Logging in is as simple as your cookie stored on your computer doing it for you in a second or two in the background... you just see lost information. If you didn't have the remember me button checked, you would actually find yourself being asked to login again as the system went idle in your session, thus you click submit and the software doesn't recognise you.
Wireless connections are not "always on" even when you may set them up to be that way... your computer, often Windows or OSX, will put the connection in idle, so that when you activate it again it takes that extra second or two to load the first page because the connection resets from idle to connect once again. This is something many cannot control, it is also done from the ISP. Yes, you can often change this, though I am not going to talk anyone through it, instead you must seek help from your ISP or online, this is not a computer help forum. You can often change these in your network settings when establing a connection and more importantly, within your modem/router, though again, sometimes even adjusting your hard settings will do nothing as your ISP may override any setting they want, and you really won't know what they do. They often do this so their bandwidth is reduced with only active connections, not people just letting their system sit on idle. Have a million users all sitting in an active idle state, and the bandwidth goes through the roof, compared to them simply cutting a connection after x amount of time which takes all of a second or two to reactivate when you move the mouse / click a link, etc.
"Best Connection"
The best possible connection you can have, is when you have your router / modem set so it never goes to idle, you have a hard connection (cable) to your system and you have checked the "remember me" box next to the username and password fields. This is undoubetly the most secure and stable connection to ANY online forum, as all forums work the same way and use the same methods to keep connected.
I hope that helps some, those who often have disconnections from writing to posting.
