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#1 Posted : 08 July 2006 13:45:00(UTC)
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Posted By srd Does anyone else have trouble with this web site?: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/ It doesn't matter what day or time of the day I try to access it, it either doesn't load, or takes so long that it renders its use almost impossible, certainly impracticable. I have just tried to access it again to no avail, and had similar trouble a few months back. Am I doing something wrong, or is it the site? Stephen.
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#2 Posted : 08 July 2006 14:16:00(UTC)
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Posted By Bill Fisher Just did a cut and paste of the e-address and it worked first time. Have you tried pasting the address into the Google search, locate the site then try your link again. Good luck Bill
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#3 Posted : 10 July 2006 00:26:00(UTC)
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Posted By Tony Brunskill Loaded first time and very quick.
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#4 Posted : 10 July 2006 00:45:00(UTC)
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Posted By John Murgatroyd Aha ! You must be an aol user.... Connect to inet, minimise the browser and then bring-up internet explorer or firefox and paste to that.
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#5 Posted : 10 July 2006 08:07:00(UTC)
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Posted By Kevin Drew It is a very large and complex web site. Rumour has it that EA employees use Google to navigate their way around it. Kevin Drew
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#6 Posted : 10 July 2006 09:42:00(UTC)
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Posted By John Murgatroyd Quite true, but then so do other companies employees...and I use it to plough through my pc as well. As for the EA....did you know they are the single largest customer for land rover. Bigger than the army ! And are also [probably] the most ineffective and costly ?
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#7 Posted : 10 July 2006 09:52:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ian Mitchell Coincidentally just 'phoned the EA helpline this morning to request a discharge certificate. The bod at the other end tried to navigate the site on his PC 'as it is available online on the website'. He gave up after a few minutes as it was taking forever and is posting one out instead!
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#8 Posted : 10 July 2006 12:34:00(UTC)
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Posted By srd It seems to load OK when I quit out of Zone Alarm, so I'm going to try to find out if there is a setting in ZA that I can change to prevent this. Funny though that it is the ONLY web site I have trouble with. Stephen.
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#9 Posted : 10 July 2006 12:35:00(UTC)
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Posted By srd Oh, and I'm not an AOL user, I'm on Blueyonder broadband. Stephen.
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#10 Posted : 11 July 2006 13:30:00(UTC)
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Posted By John Donaldson I actually wrote to the EA about their site and the poor download speeds and was told it must be my server that was at fault. When I responded by informing them that I was on the Super JANET (Joint Academic Network) which is a high speed link between the UK universities they did not respond. The site is one of the most difficult to navigate and if you bookmark a page after having found it invariably the next time you find the URL has changed. Perhaps one day the EA might just listen to its customers as I know a number of my colleagues have been in contact with them as well over the same issues.
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#11 Posted : 11 July 2006 14:47:00(UTC)
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Posted By JEFFREY SMITH I know the site was down last week as I was trying to re-register as producer of waste. This morning, in first time, no hold-ups etc. On the other hand, since I work for the MOD maybe I have a direct line in...
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