[vbmechanic]

I couldn't get the bar to affect the who's online on my forum. I still have it in the style-- you can test it yourself using two browsers. I put myself into a thread in one browser and went to view who's online in another, and it worked without hassle.

Also-- seeing a speed problem with dialup would indicate that you have a poor connection between you and the bar. Wouldn't you think that with a high speed connection, I would notice the delay more? If the rest of the page loaded fast, but the bar was slowing things down, I think I would see it.

Not doubting you on anything, just doing some testing for you-- you can see on my unrelated site that the bar is working as planned. Looking over the code, it works like I'd expect.. can't imagine how it would affect sessions on distinct servers.