soooo......... slooowww....

vac

Is it just me or have these boards fallen to a crawling speed?

It took 35 seconds from when i pressed "New Thread" to the new thread page...

Its really getting bad and its not my net connection, anyone else having the same problem? Are you planning to upgrade by anychance?

Vac

azezil

Geting the main page to load seems to take a bit longer for some reason alrite, but once i'm in it seems fine to me!

Fidelis

I concur, the boards have taken longer and longer to load every week or so for the past few months. They used to zip around for me on the old design

nesf

Yeah, I've noticed it aswell. I'm at the college and it takes ages (relatively) compared to other sites, which should take alot longer to load up.

smoke.me.a.kipper

ive noticed nothing unusual (except the main page), and i practically live on boards. but then im using a t1 college connection

Victor

Yeah I was going to post something about it, but I couldn't load the 'post new topic window'......

Even with a 256 (or is it 512k) coneection.

amp

I concur, took me close to 4 minutes to post this reply on a 56k line.

bkehoe

I'm on one way satellite that usually gives ISDN like speeds for web browsing, and boards.ie is like using a 14.4k modem, or less even; a 9.6k GSM connection is faster on other sites, to browse it. Speeds are even slower when I switch back to 56k, via Esat. This only started happening recently. Pings and tracerts to the boards.ie server are fine, so has the server suddenly come under huge load or something?

Brendan

yankinlk

slow for me too, 30 seconds on a 512k to post this...longer to load page from Humanities.

Dustaz

Yes, the boards have noticably slowed down, especially this week. I thought it was cos i was browsing use IE on a mac in work, but the last few days have been hard going

DeVore

ARGH!!!! Shame on you, some of you know better then to do this to my nerves!!

ok. deep breath.... if boards is slow please follow these actions:

1. drop to DOS and type: tracert www.boards.ie

2. copy and paste the results in here


I had one person mail me complaining that it was crawling only to mail me back to say his isp was having trouble with the US.

I cant debug vague moans. Gimme data

DeVore

phaxx

Snappy for me, always is. Esat dialup.

vac

Hmm, k soz, don't read this board much, didn't know you lads wanted info ;p

k, i did two, one to the boards and one to fortress.ie, for compairing, i did the boards one first then the fortress.ie one nearly right after..

1   119 ms   107 ms   113 ms  ts02.dublin.iol.net [194.125.1.65]
  2   106 ms   105 ms    98 ms  fe0-0.br2.dublin.iol.net [194.125.40.252]
  3   311 ms   218 ms   254 ms  atm1-0-5.cr103.cwt.esat.net [193.120.30.193]
  4   105 ms   105 ms   192 ms  vlan500.rt501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.124]
  5   100 ms    92 ms   111 ms  vlan53.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.130.153]
  6   101 ms   109 ms   112 ms  ge2-0.br001.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.129.20]
  7   114 ms   111 ms   107 ms  Serial1-1-1.GW5.DUB2.ALTER.NET [146.188.38.121]

  8   112 ms    91 ms    97 ms  ge3-0.cr2.dub2.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.152.2]
  9   116 ms   108 ms   111 ms  so3-1-1.tr2.lnd2.alter.net [158.43.253.9]
 10   222 ms   191 ms   191 ms  so-6-0-0.IR1.DCA4.Alter.Net [146.188.8.169]
 11   192 ms   186 ms   191 ms  so-0-0-0.IR1.DCA6.Alter.Net [146.188.13.33]
 12   189 ms   188 ms   191 ms  0.so-0-0-0.TR1.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.9.210]
 13   198 ms   208 ms   207 ms  121.at-5-0-0.TR1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.101]
 14   198 ms   205 ms   205 ms  297.at-2-0-0.XR1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.80.253]

 15   202 ms   203 ms   201 ms  193.ATM7-0.GW5.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.82.17]
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17   212 ms   204 ms   206 ms  64.224.0.72
 18   245 ms   221 ms   204 ms  [url]www.boards.ie[/url] [216.247.239.48]

Trace complete.

C:\WINDOWS>tracert [url]www.fortress.ie[/url]

Tracing route to [url]www.fortress.ie[/url] [159.134.244.150]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   107 ms   100 ms   100 ms  ts02.dublin.iol.net [194.125.1.65]
  2   106 ms   111 ms    94 ms  fe0-0.br2.dublin.iol.net [194.125.40.252]
  3   113 ms   105 ms    98 ms  atm1-0-5.cr103.cwt.esat.net [193.120.30.193]
  4    99 ms   107 ms    96 ms  vlan501.rt502.cwt.esat.net [193.95.137.125]
  5   101 ms    96 ms   107 ms  vlan54.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.130.161]
  6    95 ms   104 ms    97 ms  ge1-0.core001.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.129.17]
  7    95 ms    98 ms    95 ms  ge0-0.core002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.129.18]
  8   106 ms   113 ms   107 ms  pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.120.59.26]
  9   104 ms    96 ms   109 ms  fa0-0.peering1.inex.dublin.eircom.net [193.1.20
.196]
 10   106 ms    96 ms   114 ms  159.134.191.125
 11   109 ms   106 ms    91 ms  fa0-0.service2.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.1
1.71]
 12   112 ms   113 ms   113 ms  [url]www.fortress.ie[/url] [159.134.244.150]

Trace complete.

tis 1:37 am GMT, ill do another tommorow see how it goes maybe ;p

Vac

bkehoe

Don't be alarmed at the high pings; thats what I get for using one way satellite, which isn't the problem, as boards was much faster a few days ago.

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms server.mshome.net [192.168.0.1]
2 447 ms 500 ms 403 ms 172.19.31.68
3 528 ms 436 ms 433 ms 62.41.25.1
4 438 ms 500 ms 500 ms r1-Et3-3.hvs.NL.kpnqwest.net [134.222.198.85]
5 418 ms 490 ms 500 ms r1-PO2-5.obl-KQ1.NL.kpnqwest.net [134.222.198.17
]
6 599 ms 500 ms 500 ms r2-PO4-0.nyk-KQ1.US.kpnqwest.net [134.222.229.23
4]
7 499 ms 600 ms 500 ms jfk-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.30.145]
8 491 ms 508 ms 500 ms 205.171.4.10
9 510 ms 500 ms 500 ms 526.at-5-0-0.XR2.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.23.78]
10 600 ms 500 ms 600 ms 0.so-2-2-0.XL2.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.19.33]
11 500 ms 500 ms 600 ms 0.so-1-0-0.TL2.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.169]
12 600 ms 600 ms 600 ms 0.so-3-1-0.TL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.38.78]
13 601 ms 565 ms 636 ms 0.so-3-0-0.XL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.85.226]
14 630 ms 600 ms 600 ms 0.so-7-0-0.XR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.85.194]
15 601 ms 600 ms 600 ms 192.ATM7-0.GW5.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.82.13]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 582 ms 600 ms 600 ms 64.224.0.72
18 552 ms 551 ms 600 ms ftp.irelandoffline.com [216.247.239.48]

Trace complete.

Seems as if there's a problem around hop 16.

Brendan

Crash&Burn

2 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 195.218.127.9
3 136 ms 216 ms 211 ms irdub-core1-e1.global-vpn.net [195.218.96.19]
4 145 ms 10 ms 10 ms irdub-core2.global-vpn.net [195.218.96.20]
5 20 ms 33 ms 21 ms bel-bgp1-atm3-0-1.nevadatele.com [195.218.126.23
4]
6 23 ms 22 ms 23 ms nevatele01-pp.pipex.net [158.43.116.17]
7 24 ms 21 ms 22 ms fddi0-0.cr1.bfs1.pipex.net [158.43.229.1]
8 38 ms 36 ms 36 ms pos0-1.cr1.lnd10.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.253.109]

9 38 ms 37 ms 36 ms sc-7-0-0.xr1.lnd9.alter.net [158.43.150.98]
10 39 ms 36 ms 36 ms so-0-1-0.TR2.LND9.Alter.Net [146.188.15.41]
11 113 ms 113 ms 115 ms so-6-0-0.IR2.DCA4.Alter.Net [146.188.8.173]
12 114 ms 113 ms 118 ms so-0-0-0.IR2.DCA6.Alter.Net [146.188.13.41]
13 113 ms 113 ms 114 ms 0.so-0-0-0.TR2.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.9.218]
14 127 ms 127 ms 127 ms 121.at-5-0-0.TR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.197]
15 129 ms 127 ms 128 ms 196.at-2-0-0.XR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.81.9]
16 128 ms 127 ms 127 ms 192.ATM7-0.GW5.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.82.13]
17 136 ms 127 ms 128 ms interland1-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.255.13
4]
18 128 ms 146 ms 146 ms 64.224.0.72
19 146 ms 145 ms 144 ms www.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]

Trace complete.

Shiminay

C:\WINNT>tracert [url]www.boards.ie[/url]

Tracing route to [url]www.boards.ie[/url] [216.247.239.48]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  PROXYBETA [19.16.1.231]
  2   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  62.17.17.161
  3    16 ms    15 ms    16 ms  gw5.dub2.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.155.7]
  4    15 ms    16 ms    16 ms  ge3-0.cr2.dub2.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.152.2]
  5    16 ms    31 ms    32 ms  so3-1-1.tr2.lnd2.alter.net [158.43.253.9]
  6   203 ms   375 ms   469 ms  so-6-0-0.IR1.DCA4.Alter.Net [146.188.8.169]
  7    93 ms   125 ms    94 ms  so-0-0-0.IR1.DCA6.Alter.Net [146.188.13.33]
  8   219 ms   187 ms   188 ms  0.so-0-0-0.TR1.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.9.210]
  9   516 ms   656 ms   594 ms  121.at-5-0-0.TR1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.101]
 10   203 ms   265 ms   204 ms  297.at-2-0-0.XR1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.80.253]
 11   110 ms   125 ms   109 ms  193.ATM7-0.GW5.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.82.17]
 12   110 ms   125 ms   125 ms  interland1-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.255.134]
 13   375 ms   125 ms   125 ms  64.224.0.72
 14   109 ms   125 ms   125 ms  news.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]

Trace complete.

Tom, I reckon it's not so much connection speed (but that's a bit of a problem), but the server load. It's got to dynamically create the pages for everyone browsing, doesn't it? That's gonna take time if there are 30 people browsing at once. Try comparing "slow down" with the total number of people browsing.

WhiteWashMan

C:\>tracert www.boards.ie

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms STEEL [192.168.0.1]
2 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms 62.7.251.1
3 20 ms 30 ms 30 ms 172.16.109.18
4 * 20 ms 30 ms 172.16.100.58
5 * 10 ms 30 ms 172.16.93.214
6 * 10 ms 40 ms 172.16.93.68
7 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms 217.32.244.225
8 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms core1-gig2-1.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.197.1
]
9 * 20 ms 30 ms core1-pos13-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.196.245
]
10 30 ms 31 ms 30 ms transit1-gig6-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.9.1
64]
11 110 ms 110 ms 121 ms transit1-pos10-3.washington.ukcore.bt.net [194.7
4.16.134]
12 100 ms * 110 ms 12.124.235.13
13 100 ms 111 ms 110 ms gbr2-p70.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.9.46]
14 * 100 ms 110 ms gbr4-p70.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.1.185]
15 131 ms 140 ms 120 ms gbr4-p30.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.2.225]
16 120 ms 131 ms 120 ms gbr6-p70.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.5.49]
17 120 ms 120 ms 131 ms gar2-p370.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.21.77]
18 120 ms 120 ms 130 ms 12.124.58.6
19 120 ms 121 ms 130 ms 64.224.0.72
20 140 ms 120 ms 130 ms news.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]

Trace complete.

C:\>
far to long on adsl.
shame on you8r boards.ie.
bad dog. bad.

smoke.me.a.kipper

  1   <10 ms   <10 ms    10 ms  172.27.1.1
  2   <10 ms   <10 ms    10 ms  172.26.3.2
  3   <10 ms   <10 ms    10 ms  172.26.3.1
  4   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  thurlescicsco.trbdi.ie [172.28.1.1]
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23   140 ms   150 ms   191 ms  news.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]

Trace complete.

C:\>

works at normal speed in webbrowser. must be tipp inst problem!

Victor

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan
C:\>tracert www.boards.ie
8 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms core1-gig2-1.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.197.1]

lol, Bletchley Park is / was a British Ministry of Defence monitoring station. www.bletchleypark.org.uk

Originally posted by DeVore
ARGH!!!! Shame on you, some of you know better then to do this to my nerves!! [/B]

/me buys DeVore a pint.

Originally posted by DeVore
1. drop to DOS and type: tracert www.boards.ie
2. copy and paste the results in here [/B]

[PEON MODE ON]
How do you copy and paste in DOS or can you dump the contents to a file that you can then copy and paste?
[PEON MODE OFF]

amp

Victor, in w2k you simply drag a square over the text you want to copy and then rightclick on said square. In Win98 and 95 (dunno about WinME as aint touching that flipping muthaflippa) you've got a toolbar and in NT4 you right click on the titlebar.
Once copied just paste into the reply box and chuck a Code tag around it to be tidy.

Any questions?


Here's my output from my main machine at home running w2k with all patches installed over an external Motorola 56k Voicesurfr through Via Networks (Club Internet)

Micro$oft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Micro$oft Corp.

C:\>tracert [url]www.boards.ie[/url]

Tracing route to [url]www.boards.ie[/url] [216.247.239.48]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   120 ms   121 ms   110 ms  mr-big.via-net-works.ie [212.17.32.12]
  2   110 ms   111 ms   120 ms  rt001dub.ie.vianw.net [212.17.32.4]
  3   131 ms   130 ms   130 ms  rt001thl.uk.vianw.net [195.102.254.69]
  4   121 ms   130 ms   120 ms  r1thl.vianw.net [213.2.253.1]
  5   121 ms   120 ms   110 ms  r2thl.vianw.net [213.2.253.2]
  6   131 ms   110 ms   120 ms  core1.lhr.above.net [208.185.188.1]
  7   181 ms   190 ms   190 ms  lga1-lhr1-stm4-5.lga1.above.net [216.200.127.69]

  8   180 ms   190 ms   201 ms  core1-lga1-oc192.lga2.above.net [208.185.0.246]

  9   220 ms   221 ms   200 ms  core3-core1-oc48.lga2.above.net [216.200.127.150
]
 10   210 ms   210 ms   210 ms  uunet-abovenet-oc12.lga2.above.net [208.184.231.
246]
 11   210 ms   211 ms   210 ms  526.at-5-0-0.XR1.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.23.74]
 12   211 ms   220 ms   210 ms  0.so-2-2-0.XL1.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.19.29]
 13   200 ms   230 ms   211 ms  0.so-1-0-0.TL1.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.137]
 14   251 ms   250 ms   260 ms  0.so-3-0-0.TL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.38.62]
 15   340 ms   261 ms   270 ms  0.so-3-0-0.XL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.85.218]
 16   241 ms   240 ms   251 ms  0.so-7-0-0.XR1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.85.190]
 17   240 ms   271 ms   240 ms  193.ATM7-0.GW5.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.82.17]
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19   240 ms   220 ms   221 ms  64.224.0.72
 20   290 ms   241 ms   250 ms  news.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]

Trace complete.

HTH!

Renton

amp test

SantaHoe

Oh dear oh dear

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 30 ms 40 ms 40 ms as1.adl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.238.24]
2 30 ms 40 ms 40 ms fa1-0.tr1.adl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.238.1]
3 40 ms 50 ms 40 ms fa1-1-0.core2.adl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.240.12]
4 30 ms 40 ms 40 ms s6-0-0.core1.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.192.233]
5 30 ms 40 ms 40 ms fa6-0-0.core2.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.192.50]
6 40 ms 41 ms 40 ms Serial1-1-0.GW2.DUB2.ALTER.NET [146.188.34.185]
7 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms ge3-0.cr1.dub2.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.152.1]
8 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms so3-1-0.tr2.lnd2.alter.net [158.43.253.5]
9 120 ms 140 ms 131 ms so-7-0-0.IR2.DCA4.Alter.Net [146.188.11.226]
10 130 ms 130 ms 140 ms so-0-0-0.IR2.DCA6.Alter.Net [146.188.13.41]
11 120 ms 140 ms 130 ms 0.so-0-0-0.TR2.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.9.218]
12 140 ms 140 ms 140 ms 121.at-5-0-0.TR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.197]
13 131 ms 150 ms 140 ms 196.at-2-0-0.XR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.81.9]
14 140 ms 141 ms 150 ms 192.ATM7-0.GW5.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.82.13]
15 140 ms 140 ms 141 ms interland1-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.255.134]
16 130 ms 150 ms 141 ms 64.224.0.104
17 131 ms 140 ms 150 ms news.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]

Trace complete.

Lenny

Its the same for me
you click somewere, nothing happens for like 10 seconds then it starts loading slow

DeVore

When posting traceroutes please let us know if:

1. You find the site slow or fast at that time.
2. Generally you find it slow or fast
3. You were d/ling something at the time (better not to)
4. If you are in an office or at home.
5. how sites like www.msn.com are in comparison.

Obviously something somewhere is wrong if people are finding it slow but I cant debug it and find out what without this info.

It COULD be a crap isp international connection
It COULD be a crap office connection servicing 20 people
Or it could be peak load on Boards (which we are trying to get metrics on too).

Also, try and see what size the page you downloaded was... its an interesteding piece of info. If we find we are bandwidth bound, we'll turn off sigs and the like.... see if that makes any difference but I think its the ISPs personally as Indigo has been a DOG for us lately...

Thanks for the info guys, keep it coming...

DeV.

Fidelis

Originally posted by DeVore
Thanks for the info guys, keep it coming...

Hmm, Dev actually asking for more moaning? This is a first

Shinji

I've been finding Boards really, really slow over the past few days/weeks personally...

Traceroute from an NTL cablemodem:

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms CITAN [10.0.0.4]
2 14 ms 23 ms 20 ms 172.16.31.254
3 49 ms 56 ms 21 ms gfd-cam1-a-fa00.inet.ntl.com [62.252.2.1]
4 132 ms 28 ms 12 ms gfd-t2core-a-pos43.inet.ntl.com [62.254.207.25]
5 27 ms 22 ms 60 ms gfd-bb-a-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.25]
6 16 ms 19 ms 15 ms above-ntl-stm16-2.lhr1.above.net [208.185.188.29]
7 10 ms 23 ms 12 ms core2-lhr1-stm16.lhr3.above.net [208.185.156.2]
8 121 ms 151 ms 120 ms lga1-lhr3-stm64.lga1.above.net [64.125.31.182]
9 116 ms 147 ms 132 ms core2-lga1-oc192.lga2.above.net [208.184.232.198]
10 138 ms 129 ms 147 ms core3-core2-oc48.lga2.above.net [216.200.127.170]
11 119 ms 116 ms 122 ms uunet-abovenet-oc12.lga2.above.net [208.184.231.246]
12 141 ms 132 ms 138 ms 526.at-6-0-0.XR2.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.23.174]
13 163 ms 116 ms 127 ms 0.so-2-2-0.XL2.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.19.33]
14 115 ms 121 ms * 0.so-1-0-0.TL2.NYC8.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.169]
15 186 ms 161 ms 165 ms 0.so-3-1-0.TL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.38.78]
16 196 ms 178 ms 163 ms 0.so-3-0-0.XL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.85.226]
17 178 ms 190 ms 158 ms 0.so-7-0-0.XR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.85.194]
18 160 ms 157 ms 155 ms 192.ATM7-0.GW5.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.82.13]
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 137 ms 133 ms 207 ms 64.224.0.104
21 148 ms 198 ms 211 ms news.boards.ie [216.247.239.48]

It seems that interland1-gw.customer.alter.net is timing out in roughly half of these traces - could that be the root of the problem?

(There was a fair bit of traffic on my link at time of doing the traces, but it was a pretty constant high-bandwidth stream off a local NTL server so it won't have messed the figures much...)

vac

If i connect with eircom or iol its always the same, the 16th hop times out..

It might be a routing problem, ill try a diffrent isp maybe

The_Bullman

does anyone know why my work computer would coome up with this

C:\WINDOWS>tracert www.boards.ie
Unable to resolve target system name www.boards.ie.

C:\WINDOWS>tracert www.msn.com
Unable to resolve target system name www.msn.com.

as i have no idea

but i agree that the boards seems to be running slower than it used to though i have no idea why. I am not blaming boards as some other sites are also

nesf

Um, DeV I'm on Linux here, any help? It's Suse ver 2 if its any help.

The Cigarette Smoking Man

Originally posted by smak
4 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms thurlescicsco.trbdi.ie [172.28.1.1]

Your IT dept are obviously way overpaid

Um, DeV I'm on Linux here, any help? It's Suse ver 2 if its any help.

Type: traceroute www.boards.ie


I wouldn't say it's a problem with connections, I'd say it's more to do with the load on the server.

[root@rh /]# traceroute www.boards.ie
traceroute to www.boards.ie (216.247.239.48), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 router (213.190.152.129) 1.192 ms 0.873 ms 0.603 ms
2 2048kbps-dpl227818.eircom.net.vistatec.ie (159.134.185.37) 3.659 ms 3.018ms 3.002 ms
3 fa6-0-0.core2.cra.dublin.eircom.net (159.134.192.50) 3.444 ms 3.497 ms 3.489 ms
4 Serial1-1-0.GW2.DUB2.ALTER.NET (146.188.34.185) 4.007 ms 7.274 ms 3.727 ms
5 ge3-0.cr1.dub2.gbb.uk.uu.net (158.43.152.1) 3.774 ms 3.983 ms 8.656 ms
6 so3-1-1.tr2.lnd9.gbb.alter.net (158.43.253.57) 15.920 ms 14.369 ms 14.240 ms
7 so-6-0-0.IR2.DCA4.Alter.Net (146.188.8.173) 91.297 ms 94.027 ms 93.988 ms
8 so-1-0-0.IR2.DCA6.Alter.Net (146.188.13.45) 91.157 ms 91.425 ms 91.288 ms
9 0.so-0-0-0.TR2.DCA6.ALTER.NET (152.63.9.218) 91.218 ms 91.525 ms 91.057 ms
10 121.at-5-0-0.TR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.0.197) 100.781 ms 100.961 ms 101.297 ms
11 196.at-2-0-0.XR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.81.9) 100.548 ms 100.609 ms 100.920 ms
12 192.ATM7-0.GW5.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.82.13) 100.816 ms 101.148 ms 101.042 ms
13 interland1-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.255.134) 101.406 ms 101.078 ms 101.244 ms
14 64.224.0.72 (64.224.0.72) 104.003 ms 101.285 ms 102.219 ms
15 news.boards.ie (216.247.239.48) 101.498 ms 101.021 ms 101.340 ms
[root@rh /]#

Nero

I also have found that the response from boards.ie has gone downhill. When I try to tracert from work I get all "Request timed out", I guess the IT dept must have something set somewhere but the response from all other sites is the same as before. I will see what I get from home tonight from my superb 33.6 Eircom line.

Cloud

I must admit I have found things a bit slower too, I rebooted the server today and things speeded up slightly. But the main page with its 20 last posts is the slowest for me, I turned it down to 10 posts there one day to no avail, I'm not sure is it faster or slower since the gzip setting was turned on.

Food for thought anyway!

John.
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seamus

Hehe I'm quite sad - you booted the boards server Cloud? I noticed. How completely sad is that . I've only noticed the odd slowness. On the line in work it loads straight up 19 times out of 20, sometimes it will stall slightly for 5 secs or so and then continue.

amp

Seems to have speeded up a bit allright