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Is it just me, or are the forums incredibly slow. For the past two days BF and TFL have been really slow. Threads that used to take second to download (I have cable modem) now take minutes. Sometimes, they just time out and I have to reload. The BM forum, KFC, and Tactical Forums are all fine, as are other sites such as ESPN and CNN.

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Kelly

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AKTI Member #A000289

Deo Vindice


 
Not a clue big fella.

Try opening an MS DOS prompt window and running a Trace Route for me.

Type in tracert bladeforums.com and tell me what it sends back.

Spark

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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com

Insert witty quip here
 
Spark - I have to agree. Since the new UBB/format change over the holidays, the site is now incredibly slooooowwwwwwwww... on several different computers (one of which runs on a T1 line). How to we run the Trace Route check?

The new graphics seem to be slowing down the system. Possible?

AJ
 
Tried running a Trace Route. Opened an MS-DOS prompt, typed in tracert bladeforums.com, and received the following message...

Unable to resolve target system name bladeforums.com

AJ
 
Not sure why, but since the upgrade, the forums have been loading faster and smoother for me (56K modem) so I can't complain.
 
Yep....really slow on this side of the Pacific, too.

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BrianWE
ICQ #21525343
I THINK : THEREFORE I AM.........I think
 
As a matter of interest, it took almost 4 minutes to load this window. The banner came up ok but the rest took forever.

Ran a Netlab trace and got:


# IP address Host name Round trip time
1 No response
2 198.142.160.97 Unavailable 186 ms
3 202.139.19.25 Unavailable 192 ms
4 202.139.1.205 Unavailable 200 ms
5 192.65.89.238 hssi9-0-0.la1.optus.net.au 432 ms
6 157.130.227.181 34.ATM0-0-0.GW1.LAX4.ALTER.NET 459 ms
7 146.188.248.98 121.ATM3-0.XR1.LAX4.ALTER.NET 451 ms
8 152.63.112.186 192.at-1-0-0.TR2.LAX9.ALTER.NET 433 ms
9 152.63.0.205 131.at-5-0-0.TR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET 791 ms
10 152.63.81.45 296.ATM7-0.XR2.ATL1.ALTER.NET 766 ms
11 146.188.232.237 194.ATM8-0-0.GW2.MIA1.ALTER.NET 692 ms
12 157.130.75.94 fdn-gw.customer.ALTER.NET 823 ms
13 216.199.45.253 Unavailable 591 ms
14 216.199.63.201 Unavailable 547 ms
15 216.199.63.126 Unavailable 558 ms
16 216.199.63.126 Unavailable 595 ms
17 216.199.9.67 bladeforums.com 558 ms

Means nothing to me but I thought it might help



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BrianWE
ICQ #21525343
I THINK : THEREFORE I AM.........I think
 
Spark,

I have a 56K modem & Win95. My connection is maybe a little slower than before. That's OK, I read slow anyway.
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I just ran a Trace Route (whatever that is) and got the following:

[Windows 95] C:\WINDOWS>tracert bladeforums.com

Tracing route to bladeforums.com [216.199.9.67]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 197 ms 198 ms 207 ms 216.77.206.30
2 195 ms 209 ms 189 ms 216.77.206.62
3 265 ms 179 ms 177 ms 205.152.60.248
4 219 ms 178 ms 178 ms 207.203.0.65
5 180 ms 178 ms 178 ms 205.152.16.185
6 195 ms 189 ms 208 ms 500.Serial3-1-1.GW2.MIA1.alter.net [157.130.72.1
41]
7 235 ms 209 ms 207 ms 126.ATM2-0.XR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET [146.188.233.26]
8 235 ms 208 ms 197 ms 195.ATM8-0-0.GW2.MIA1.ALTER.NET [146.188.232.225
]
9 233 ms 208 ms 228 ms fdn-gw.customer.ALTER.NET [157.130.75.94]
10 254 ms 228 ms 236 ms 216.199.63.201
11 433 ms 268 ms 238 ms 216.199.63.217
12 474 ms 439 ms 449 ms 216.199.63.126
13 474 ms 557 ms 568 ms bladeforums.com [216.199.9.67]

Trace complete.

[Windows 95] C:\WINDOWS>

Hope this helps.

Blackdog
 
It's looking like what I thought, the bog down typically happens at the ALTER.net / FDN level, which is our ISP's throughput provider. They are telling me that when we move to the Class 5 switching station this month we'll have better throughput and connectivity, but we'll see what happens.

Spark

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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com

Insert witty quip here
 
I'm also downloading as slow as I've ever seen on this forum, TFL, AR15.com, Glock Talk and just about every other forum I visit.

Tried to open a dos window but was told it would shut down all other operations and reboot into dos mode. Any other way to run a trace without shutting down everything???
 
So....after all these days, it seems there IS a problem.
Good to see we are not, all, imagining it
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BrianWE

If I am a Figment of Your Imagination....Stop It, PLEASE!
 
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