Site being unresponsive/slow?

airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
edited July 2006 in Community
Yeh, I am trying to figure out if it is my internet connection that is timing out, or if the site is just being slow. When I am on here going from one page to another, it sometimes times out, or loads extremely slow. I think it may be my cable modem fizzling out though. Cause I've had to reboot it multiple times this week. But then again, smaller pages such as google, and others seem to have no problem loading.

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  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Site isn't slow. It could be something between Michigan and you. Google isn't a very good site to test connections on because it has servers all over the place and isn't much affected by parts of the grid getting screwed up. 99% of the time, any slowness someone feels in the site can be attributed to a network somewhere. Now if it goes down... that's sometimes Brian flubbing a PHP install :D
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Hmm. I am going to place the blame on my cable modem, after 4 years of use, I think it may have ran its course.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Two suggestions:

    1. Call your ISP and see if there have been any networking protocol changes lately. Last week my Internet speeds at home went to heck for no apparent reason. We called our ISP and we had a fix in just a few minutes. The provider (DSL) had changed some kind of protocol setting for the entire subscriber base. We had to adjust the MTU setting in our wireless router and then boom, all was good again.

    2. Update the firmware for your modem.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2006
    I was fine earlier, but just now I am having trouble getting into individual threads. The main forum page loads just fine.

    It sometimes hangs while loading pagead2.googlesyndication...
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    I was fine earlier, but just now I am having trouble getting into individual threads. The main forum page loads just fine.
    OK, I spoke too soon in my previous post.

    YES, I've been having page hangs today with S-M - pretty bad ones. I also saw that "google..." blurb. I'm on my company's network, so there's not modem or router to blame.

    Ohio - Oklahoma - Alaska: we can't all be on the same trunk/circuit.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    This thread won't even finish loading for me... but I am able to reply. wtf. Naturally I am probably posting after the answer has already been told. But I am unable to find it, pm me if so ;)
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    It's prof's signature... for some reason, it keeps showing up even though I removed it from the forum-wide template :scratch:
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Just turned off sigs and now Iam able to load past prof's post ;) Come to think of it every thread i have had this issue on was prof's fault :P
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Yes, it does seem to be much better now...That is good, but what the hell, I still have an excuse to buy a new modem, Newegg here I come!!!

    Well, the internet was going slow...
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2006
    General Keebler wrote:
    It's prof's signature... for some reason, it keeps showing up even though I removed it from the forum-wide template :scratch:
    Odd. I thought it may have been my sig, since every page stalled right when it hit my first post in the thread and I could view new threads with no problem.

    I edited my sig to remove the FAH parts of the sig (it took me several minutes to even get into my usercp to do that), but it didn't help. I finally took it down to a single line of text, but that didn't help. It's gone now altogether.

    As usual, I blame myself. :(
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Haha, nah, it's something screwy with the boards; that shouldn't have happened. It was a problem with all F@H sigs, not just yours - yours was the just the only one with that weird issue where I couldn't get rid on it.

    If anything, the boards should be EXTRA zippy for the next few hours until the F@H sigs are stable again. As prof alluded to in another thread, it seems that Stanford has moved its servers. The sigs are hanging because they can't find the servers until DNS propogates again. Really, it's my fault for not including proper error-handling for this occurance.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2006
    General Keebler wrote:
    ...Really, it's my fault for not including proper error-handling for this occurance.
    I blame myself for that, too. :bawling:

    Screw it, Keebs - let's go drinkin'. :cheers:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Did shumbuddy say drunking? :woowoo:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2006
    primesuspect wrote:
    Did shumbuddy say drunking? :woowoo:
    Almost. ;D
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Looks like prime beat you all to it. :vimp:

    nah, he was just saving you all a bar stool.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    No sig's :( whaaaa
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Sledgehammer70 wrote:
    No sig's :( whaaaa

    Yeh, but the site is viewable now. I can live without them until the issue is fixed.:)
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    airbornflght wrote:
    Yeh, but the site is viewable now. I can live without them until the issue is fixed.:)
    I think it's safe now... here we go...

    //edit: woooooo :)
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Woo-haa!!

    WOOT!
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2006
    <s>I put my sig back together and the preview is fine. But no workee-workee.</s> :buck:

    Never mind... :o
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