This is annoying!

[rolli59]

Ok I have already complained about being thrown over to the .co.uk site every time I am in Europe. Now I had to go to the Bahamas for a day and posted from there last night and this morning. Of course being a part of the Commonwealth I end up with the .co.uk site although the Bahamas is a part of the Americas and I am pretty sure they do not go back to the UK for computer Hardware. Now I am back in Florida it is still throwing every other post on the. co.uk site. I have cleared the cached data!
My believe is this should be user selectable not a forced feature.

 

[clutchc]

Similar problem here. But I am stationary in the US. Every time I answer a UK post, I am stuck on the UK site. Nothing wrong with the UK site, but things happen much quicker for me online if I can remain on the US site. So I am forced to reload my Tom's Hdwr link every time.

 

[jpishgar]

The servers themselves don't change based on where you are, so there shouldn't be any latency issue for you. IP is a determinator for which iteration of the forum you see, and both are, in essence, the same.

 

[clutchc]

OK. Thanks for the info. Must have been my imagination.

 

[rolli59]

Ok after a couple of reboots I am now getting on the .com server all the time. Just curios if it is IP derived why Bahamas default to .co.uk and why even after I am back in Florida I was defaulting there as well even writing in the address bar tomshardware.com/forum?

 

[jpishgar]

That was undoubtedly a caching issue. When you are away, directing traffic through a local ISP, your cache preserves a few things. Switching from the Bahamas back to Florida would change the routing, for sure, but your cache would take a bit to update (hence the reboots).