Even with my broadband which is supposed to be blazing fast for local sites, accessing NS.SG is still very slow. How many of you have tried accessing this site and felt that the speeds are really unacceptable? I tried accessing it in the mornings, in the afternoon and in the evenings, no luck there, all the same - super slow. I wonder why such an important site for NS Men like me, the speeds are so slow. I mean it is not only important for just people like me, but also NSF, Employers (for NS Men payment matters) and basically every male in Singapore. We need to access this site often to check up on our NS liabilities.

I think it’s their server(s) that is causing the slow speeds when accessing it. Perhaps their server(s) cannot handle the huge amount of traffic that can be generated everyday by people like me who wants to know whether we have a recall manning or a 21 day ICT scheduled. What were they thinking when they planned for the setting up of the site? I mean, it’s bound to have a great deal of traffic everyday, considering that we have tens of thousands of active NSF and NSMen who needs to the site. Is this what we expect from our highly paid government officials? And worse of it, it’s been this way for a long time already. I am sure that they have realized that the speeds are unacceptable and would have at least tried to do something about it. But alas, it has remained slow and sluggish since the beginning. Perhaps they didn’t notice the slow speeds? Perhaps access from government intranets have priority and thus they don’t feel that it is slow?

Or perhaps they don’t think it is important? We peasants who had spent our time and a huge effort to defend our country certainly don’t need to do things fast. We can sit in front of the monitor and wait about 10 minutes for each page to load for all they care. They are definitely not going to spend money to upgrade their servers or increase their bandwidth just for peasants. I think they believe that we are unworthy of faster speeds. It is surprising that the government keeps on telling Singaporeans that they should do their part in defending the country, yet the site which links everything together is unable to handle it. Well….