Page refresh speed

[gibbin82]

Although I known actually getting to the add registration page is just luck, but I think I may have found a way that greatly increased my chances. I ran a PC and tried I.E. Firefox and Chrome on it and the refresh rate was always appalling and I never even got a sniff at the add registration page (I continued until all the tickets had gone just to see), yet a friend who was at my home using safari on my iMac (on the same I.P. address) had an incredibly fast refresh rate (once Seetickets had sorted out their technical problems). While my PC was displaying the little circle thingy trying to connect, the iMac was refreshing as fast as you could press the refresh icon. While I expect someone will have an explanation for this such as it was reloading the page from the stored cache, it seems once it detected there was a change (access to the add registration page) it loaded it in a flash. To me I would expect that the quicker the page was refreshing the more chances you got to be lucky, so I wondered if anyone else found the same?

[marthom]

I had same thing PC running Chrome slow as treacle refresh and macbook running Safari at the speed of light however it was PC that I got through on!

[Andy0808 v3.0]

Was getting 40+ refreshes a minute on Safari, and about 10 on Chrome.

[gibbin82]

It's not just me then safari mac combination did seem to be much quicker.

[Klyde]

For me Chrome was useless. IE and firefox refreshed quickly (from 09.30 after the tech issues were sorted)

I was on 2 desktops at work. Tickets bagged about 09.35.

[waynewdk]

1 comp Chrome was refreshing the full page in half a second or less, the other comp was refreshing the full page at 2 seconds, the 2 second one failed

[Thrash D Garbage]

On Firefox the refresh rate was, most of the time, as quick as I could press F5. I hardly ever gave the page a chance to start counting down from 20 seconds.

[verrymerry]

Ahh now I had Chrome & Firefox performing like absolute beauties, I.E on the other hand... well shame on you!

[Mackem]

Sorry to ruin the theory but I was sat alongside a mate who had the identical macbook pro to me (my wife's actually), refreshing the same web address on Safari and there were several periods when I could manually refresh at will, instantaneously while he was hanging round waiting for the blue line to complete. Nothing he could do would speed it up. There were other times he could manually refresh at lightning speed but so did mine at those times. Also he is a techinco-dinosaur, but the laptop couldn't have known that as he was doing the same as me. So I don't think Safari v Firefox v Chrome can be the answer.

[Big Vern]

had pc running Chrome and ipad running Safari. Safari got nowhere, pc got my registrations added and payment details taken 9 times, still didnt get tickets though as it just timed out and took me back to add registrations which didnt progress any further

[SLEEPYMOPS]

Got in twice on safari I just let the 20 second count go down each time and it got in both times quick and easy no f5

[AiiShotTheDJ]

Didn't get close on Firefox, constantly timed out and each page took what felt like a year to refresh just to time out again.

[jakeking5]

We had 4 laptops and 1 macbook on the go. The laptops didn't even get a sniff in. The mac with safari and chrome got through a few times, and was refreshing so much faster. We eventually got tickets with safari. I also found that hitting back when you enter details and get nowhere worked pretty well.

[waynewdk]

I also got into thursdays, too in 6 mins,that was a dry run though to familiar my self with the process

[dan05delaney]

Was running on chrome on 3 different laptops all with autorefresh set to refresh every 3 seconds was consistantly getting sucessful page loading (after half 9) with about 20 loads a second.

Forgot to add that every laptop got through to the bookng page at least once

Edited October 6, 2013 by dan05delaney

[little_jim]

Agreed, I had my Macbook running Safari and PC using IE, ive always got through using my macbook. My PC is of a much high spec and wired into the wireless hub but that clearly has no difference.

[K8P]

At first took ages to refresh a blank page on EI then about 10:20 then refresh was as fast pressing f5. I must of been close to getting a ticket but I ran out of time. Different browser for resale day me thinks.

[mandb]

I don't understand any thing computer techno geeky but I do know that last year my sister (whilst with me in the UK) got 23 tickets on her Apple computer and I didn't even get a look in. This year she is in India and again she got to the ticket page twice, again I did not get a look in. If it wasn't for her we wouldn't be going.....

My better half is seriously thinking about getting and Apple Mac now. Is there something in that, surely it can't just be coincidental ??

[Amii]

Got through three times my iPad (safari), I also ran four other PCs - Firefox, Chrome and IE never got past the holding page.

[frostypaw]

Safari probably caches everything whether you want it to or not, I had very rapid refreshing on chrome on my pc

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