Boards are getting slower

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Is it just me or is this site slowing to a crawl alot lately. I don't beleive its me, when it is slow here I have tested to other sites to see if my connection has slowed, and it was fine. I have a fat pipe here at work and never have a problem with any site but this one.

The extent and frequency of this is getting to a point that I may stop comming here. I'd say not only is it everyday but also about 85% of the time. For instance, I type the home url into my browser and the top banner shows but it takes as long as 2 min.'s to load the rest (no exageration). Same with clicking any other link for that matter. I run on a Win2000pro, 256Mg Ram, 3D Rage Pro AGP, IE6, 1152x864 Res., True Color.

The Webmistress's picture

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I have no problems at all with speed of loading, opens very quickly. Is this the only site you are experiencing this with?

taff's picture

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no problems here either.

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ditto - no problems

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Working just fine for me.

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I'm having a few problems once in awhile, but usually the pages are loading within 8 seconds, most of the time within 3 sec. (on a T1 - handly little loading timer Opera has!)

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Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

E:\>tracert webmaster-forums.com

Tracing route to webmaster-forums.com [66.96.208.181]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 10.151.141.254
2 30 ms 40 ms 40 ms 10.151.150.9
3 40 ms 50 ms 40 ms 10.151.140.250
4 120 ms 201 ms 210 ms 12.119.176.173
5 80 ms 50 ms 50 ms gbr1-p55.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.197.130]
6 40 ms 70 ms 80 ms gbr4-p00.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.5.210]
7 60 ms 110 ms 60 ms gbr4-p10.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.2.162]
8 60 ms 70 ms 60 ms gbr3-p60.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.1.129]
9 90 ms 60 ms 121 ms gbr3-p80.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.2.165]
10 71 ms 120 ms 100 ms gbr5-p60.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.5.105]
11 90 ms 120 ms 70 ms ar2-p310.cdknj.ip.att.net [12.123.192.9]
12 * 471 ms 461 ms 12.119.155.82
13 120 ms 111 ms 110 ms 6696208181.hostnoc.net [66.96.208.181]

Trace complete.

Here is the trace. What do you think?

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Joined: Mar 2002

E:\>tracert webmaster-forums.com

Tracing route to webmaster-forums.com [66.96.208.181]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 10 ms <10 ms 10.151.141.254
2 40 ms 50 ms 40 ms 10.151.150.9
3 40 ms 50 ms 50 ms 10.151.140.250
4 80 ms 100 ms 81 ms 12.119.176.173
5 90 ms 91 ms 140 ms gbr1-p55.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.197.130]
6 80 ms 80 ms 80 ms gbr4-p00.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.5.210]
7 90 ms 110 ms 80 ms gbr4-p10.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.2.162]
8 120 ms 120 ms 230 ms gbr3-p60.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.1.129]
9 110 ms 150 ms 120 ms gbr3-p80.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.2.165]
10 100 ms 110 ms 141 ms gbr5-p60.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.5.105]
11 101 ms 140 ms 100 ms ar2-p310.cdknj.ip.att.net [12.123.192.9]
12 140 ms * * 12.119.155.82
13 140 ms 150 ms 110 ms 6696208181.hostnoc.net [66.96.208.181]

Trace complete.

And another one.

openmind's picture

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Hunky dory for me, I just wish I could read quicker! Smiling

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Quote: Originally posted by flipper
Hunky dory for me, I just wish I could read quicker! Smiling

We'll try to us smaller words for ya flipper Wink

ps - what the heck is a "numpty" ?

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It looks like there is a problem in a router on the way to TWF. That's what the pretty asterisks are (timeouts, lost packets, hiccups, delays, blah blah). If you come here through a different route, you will not get stuck at that hop, which explains the difference. I have only today noticed that it's hard to get to TWF -- but nothing like two minutes.

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C:\WINDOWS>tracert webmaster-forums.com

Tracing route to webmaster-forums.com [66.96.208.181]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms * 11 ms ISPaddress.VANCBC08AR02.bb.telus.com [209.53.1.2 25]
2 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms 209.53.1.222
3 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms vancbc01br01.bb.telus.com [204.174.217.6]
4 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms sttlwa01br01.bb.telus.com [209.53.75.166]
5 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms sl-gw7-tac-3-2.sprintlink.net [160.81.25.25]
6 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms sl-bb20-tac-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.17.57]
7 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms sl-bb20-sea-8-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.42]
8 53 ms 54 ms 54 ms sl-bb22-chi-11-2.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.50]
9 54 ms 53 ms 54 ms sl-bb20-chi-15-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.26.5]
10 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms sl-bb20-spr-10-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.245]
11 74 ms 74 ms 75 ms sl-bb24-pen-10-2.sprintlink.net [144.232.19.185]
12 75 ms 74 ms 74 ms sl-bb26-pen-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.16.74]
13 75 ms 74 ms 76 ms sl-gw27-pen-4-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.5.198]
14 95 ms 96 ms 97 ms sl-burst-2-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.191.26]
15 98 ms 97 ms 99 ms webmaster-forums.com [66.96.208.181]

Trace complete.

Suzanne's picture

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Joined: Feb 2000

Notice I'm routed through sprintlink and you are routed through ATT.

Obviously (to me), there is a problem with ATT and some of the hops before that -- the 200ms ones, for instance.

Those are some strange tracert responses, btw. did you edit them?

openmind's picture

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Quote: Originally posted by taff

We'll try to us smaller words for ya flipper Wink

ps - what the heck is a "numpty" ?

Thanks Taff, I would appreciate smaller words...go for the ones like and, or, then, it, etc. and I should follow just fine! Smiling

BTW Numpty is an northern england word meaning "Someone who has a lot to learn" At least thats the clean definition of the word Laugh

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