Phil - The Site is Slow Again

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this "slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

And now it is fast again!?
Joe

JoeK said:

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this
"slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took
about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the
equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had
the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you
have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a
function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

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I'm in Hawaii w/ a 56 K modem and have no problem at all, the site is super fast.

Aloha!

frances.

JoeK said:

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this
"slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took
about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the
equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had
the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you
have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a
function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

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flycast banner is no longer showing ... I told you, its flycast's server.

JoeK said:

JoeK said:

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this
"slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took
about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the
equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had
the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you
have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a
function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

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Jeepers, you guys don't know your luck.

I'm out 'in the sticks' with about 60-year old OVERHEAD cables to a street level box about 1/4 mile up the lane, full of dead wires (the engineer showed me on our last fault) and from there about 2 miles to the local exchange where heaven knows how they get ANYTHING to work.

I have repeared hang-ups on this Forum site and only persevere 'cos I enjoy it so much - or maybe I'm just crazy in my old age.

Eric

Teddy said:

JoeK said:

JoeK said:

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this
"slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took
about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the
equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had
the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you
have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a
function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

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Joe,

We have NO, repeat NO evidence of any slow down on the servers, they're less than 20% loaded and performing perfectly, network bandwidth is plentyful and there are no routing problems on our network or our ISP's...

We have no control over slow downs with your ISP or between our ISP and yours, "that's the internet for you"..

I wish I'd never started this "feedback the forums" thing, it's getting out of control, whenever people get the slightest slow down they blame the site.. it's simply not the case.

I'll repeat the advice I've made before, IF you're getting problems please email me don't blast it all over the forums, it doesn't do our image any good and it's certainly nothing within our control, if you email me we have a better opportunity to react immediately rather than when it comes to our attention...

JoeK said:

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this
"slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took
about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the
equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had
the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you
have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a
function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

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Sorry Phil:

I haven't been reading the other posts - I did not know how you wanted the situation handled. Now that I know, I will do exactly as you ask. Have a nice week.

Joe Kurkjian

Phil Askey said:

We have NO, repeat NO evidence of any slow down on the servers, they're
less than 20% loaded and performing perfectly, network bandwidth is
plentyful and there are no routing problems on our network or our ISP's...

We have no control over slow downs with your ISP or between our ISP and
yours, "that's the internet for you"..

I wish I'd never started this "feedback the forums" thing, it's getting
out of control, whenever people get the slightest slow down they blame
the site.. it's simply not the case.

I'll repeat the advice I've made before, IF you're getting problems
please email me don't blast it all over the forums, it doesn't do our
image any good and it's certainly nothing within our control, if you
email me we have a better opportunity to react immediately rather than
when it comes to our attention...

JoeK said:

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this
"slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took
about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the
equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had
the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you
have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a
function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

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Joe and to all who think there connection is slow,

Here's a freeware program that will tell you where the trouble may be.

http://www.nessoft.com/pingplotter/files.html

For those who know how the Internet works you'll have no trouble using it.

Ike

JoeK said:

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this
"slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took
about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the
equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had
the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you
have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a
function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

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Or, just do a traceroute ('tracert' in Windows) to the destination. Here are my results. The first tracert is through PacBell 1.5Mbit DSL service and the second is through Earthlink modem dial-up. As you can see there are more than one route to http://www.dpreview.com . The bottleneck for me appears to be somewhere through Sprint when using my super fast DSL connection.

Through PacBell DSL.
Tracing route to http://www.dpreview.com [209.207.162.7]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 35 ms 33 ms 33 ms adsl-216-101-212-254.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [216
.101.212.254]
3 21 ms 22 ms 22 ms core5-vlan50.lsan03.pbi.net [216.102.176.193]
4 20 ms 23 ms 23 ms edge1-ge1-0.lsan03.pbi.net [206.13.29.144]
5 21 ms 22 ms 22 ms lang1sr3-so-5-2-0-0.ca.us.prserv.net [165.87.157
.206]
6 21 ms 22 ms 23 ms 165.87.157.189
7 23 ms 23 ms 22 ms sl-bb11-ana-2-2.sprintlink.net [144.232.1.21]
8 30 ms 29 ms 30 ms sl-bb11-sj-4-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.81]
9 33 ms 32 ms 30 ms sl-bb10-sj-9-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.3.25]
10 148 ms 153 ms 141 ms sl-bb12-rly-5-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.217]
11 114 ms 114 ms 115 ms sl-bb11-rly-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.7.213]
12 109 ms 230 ms 261 ms sl-bb5-dc-4-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.7.166]
13 90 ms 88 ms 88 ms 208.28.7.19
14 101 ms 95 ms 95 ms sl-csg-1-0-0-T3.sprintlink.net [144.228.108.94]

15 96 ms 96 ms 94 ms fe0000.ed1.wdc.dn.net [209.207.190.38]
16 94 ms 97 ms 95 ms http://www.dpreview.com [209.207.162.7]

Through Earthlink modem dial-up.
Tracing route to http://www.dpreview.com [209.207.162.7]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 98 ms 102 ms 103 ms f8-0-0-ar01-pas.neteng.itd.earthlink.net [207.21
7.148.1]
3 99 ms 114 ms 122 ms vlan232-cr04-pas.neteng.itd.earthlink.net [207.2
17.2.37]
4 100 ms 117 ms 114 ms f4-1-0-br03-pas.neteng.itd.earthlink.net [207.21
7.1.3]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 98 ms 99 ms 101 ms 166.ATM3-0.XR1.LAX4.ALTER.NET [152.63.113.98]
7 112 ms 105 ms 112 ms 293.ATM2-0.TR1.LAX2.ALTER.NET [146.188.248.250]

8 163 ms 165 ms 164 ms 111.ATM7-0.TR1.DCA8.ALTER.NET [146.188.138.145]

9 163 ms 166 ms 165 ms 197.ATM6-0.XR1.TCO1.ALTER.NET [152.63.32.189]
10 171 ms 190 ms 177 ms 193.ATM9-0-0.GW3.DCA3.ALTER.NET [152.63.32.65]
11 183 ms 179 ms 182 ms dn4-gw.customer.ALTER.NET [157.130.15.230]
12 189 ms 182 ms 235 ms fe0500.ed1.wdc.dn.net [209.207.190.58]
13 188 ms 196 ms 194 ms http://www.dpreview.com [209.207.162.7]

Ike said:

Here's a freeware program that will tell you where the trouble may be.

http://www.nessoft.com/pingplotter/files.html

For those who know how the Internet works you'll have no trouble using it.

Ike

JoeK said:

Hi Phil:

There is a variable associated with your site affecting many of us; this
"slow/fast" issue does not make sense. As the time of this post, it took
about 30 seconds to get a hit on the News Discussion Forum. I am on the
equivalent of a T1 line. Normally, BANG - I'm ON, but not today. I had
the same problem a couple of times yesterday. Every once in a while, you
have to wait more than two minutes. The problem does not appear to be a
function of the "time of day".

Just thought you would like to know; hope this is of some help to you.

Sincerely,

Joe Kurkjian

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