Anyone else notice a problem? It has been intermittent, but sometimes the page will take forever, or not load at all. Took me a few tries to post this thread. Has been like this all evening for me. Other sites seem to be fine though.
Slow site?
- Thread starter Boyd
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Same thing just now. I timed 20 seconds waiting for the forum home page to load but it seemed to be stalled. Tried a second time and it was ok. But it took awhile to just open this thread.
My previous post timed out - I saw the "marching dots" at the top of the screen continuously and then an alert popped up that the server wasn't responding, try again. Hitting the Post button again worked. Let's see if this one goes through on the first try.... 
This site has some good tests to find out where the issue is. Start with the speed test, then focus on a test, like packet loss in the line quality ping, that will give times for each hop.
http://www.dslreports.com/tools
http://www.dslreports.com/tools
Maybe I wasn't clear. The alert that said the server wasn't responding didn't come from my computer or my browser. It was an error message from the forum software itself - like the alert window that appears if you want to mark the forums read.
The site is pretty much unusable for me today. I had to refresh the page many times just to get it to work now.
The site is pretty much unusable for me today. I had to refresh the page many times just to get it to work now.
It's intermittent. But I think the problem is on the server end and not our computers or internet connections. When you make a post (for example), there is a series of "marching boxes" at the top right of the page. These are generated by the forum software while it is executing the request. I noticed that these boxes just continued to march when I posted, and finally it timed out said the server wasn't responding. So this was all happening at the web hosting company, and not on my end.
Happened again, just like I described above. This is like toture trying to post, it takes several tries. Here is what the error message looks like
When you hit the enter button, your request can go thru any number of servers, it is not just a here to there. This is an example of a trace to 'forums.njpinebarrens.com', 28 hops, obtained using yougetsignal.com
As already mentioned, I have had no issues at all accessing or posting to this site and have never seen 'marching boxes'.
I am just now seeing this. People should ping me directly when they see issues as I don't read every thread here anymore.
Anyway, I've noticed some sluggishness with the server when I log in to it directly. I'm going to bounce it and see if that makes a difference.
Edit: Probably won't clear it up. Looks like a lot of latency on Cogent's network.
Anyway, I've noticed some sluggishness with the server when I log in to it directly. I'm going to bounce it and see if that makes a difference.
Edit: Probably won't clear it up. Looks like a lot of latency on Cogent's network.
Code:
traceroute to batsto.njpinebarrens.com (38.113.115.39), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 wireless_broadband_router (192.168.1.1) 5.799 ms 1.278 ms 0.812 ms
2 l100.nwrknj-vfttp-82.verizon-gni.net (173.70.113.1) 5.823 ms 5.474 ms 6.335 ms
3 g1-3-0-4.nwrknj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (100.41.193.0) 10.428 ms 21.824 ms 14.971 ms
4 p0-4-0-0.nwrknj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.22.62) 7.913 ms
ae0-0.nwrk-bb-rtr1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.209.154) 84.297 ms 9.189 ms
5 0.xe-3-3-0.br2.nyc4.alter.net (152.63.23.133) 12.470 ms
0.xe-1-1-0.br2.nyc4.alter.net (152.63.20.197) 10.742 ms
0.xe-8-0-0.br2.nyc4.alter.net (152.63.21.213) 9.630 ms
6 204.255.168.110 (204.255.168.110) 93.166 ms
204.255.168.114 (204.255.168.114) 82.540 ms 81.173 ms
7 be2060.ccr21.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.31.9) 81.411 ms
be2061.ccr22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.69) 91.211 ms
be2063.mpd22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.47.57) 81.830 ms
8 be2114.ccr21.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.202) 93.026 ms
be2116.mpd21.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.26) 95.425 ms 91.212 ms
9 * be2157.ccr22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.117) 95.307 ms 93.868 ms
10 be2128.ccr21.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.25.173) 105.958 ms 104.407 ms 104.044 ms
11 be2126.ccr21.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.25.66) 118.048 ms
be2127.ccr21.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.25.70) 114.786 ms
be2126.ccr21.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.25.66) 120.816 ms
12 te4-2.ccr01.smf01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.101) 117.570 ms
te9-4.ccr01.smf01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.45.98) 116.042 ms 116.238 ms
13 te0-0-2-1.rcr11.b015947-1.smf01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.24.6.74) 124.519 ms 115.157 ms *
14 38.104.142.78 (38.104.142.78) 117.640 ms * 121.096 ms
15 38.104.142.78 (38.104.142.78) 115.662 ms !X * 116.440 ms !XAlso, that error is coming from the forums javascript running in your browser. If the server isn't responding it's not going to be able to respond enough to send you an error message. It's timing out waiting for confirmation that the message was posted.
I've opened up a support case with my provider to have them look into their network connection. Nothing has changed on the server and there's not a lot of load going on on it so I think the problem has to be elsewhere.
I've opened up a support case with my provider to have them look into their network connection. Nothing has changed on the server and there's not a lot of load going on on it so I think the problem has to be elsewhere.
