[Question] Slow. Just me?

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DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Since about 2am, the forums have been very slow to respond. Up to 25 seconds between clicks for the next page to load. Front page with the comic not affected, just the forums. Tested on Firefox and Chrome, logged in or not.
 
Dave

Dave

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I'm seeing nothing out of the ordinary. Anyone else?
Added at: 09:30
Checked load averages and they are good.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Some pages are responding immediately, as usual. But today the norm is up to 30 seconds of "waiting..." before the next page loads. Other sites are as fast as they usually are. I'll blame Comcast or something else in the chain between here and there.
 
Dave

Dave

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Can you give specific pages? Does it always happen on the same pages or is it widespread?
 
MindDetective

MindDetective

It is hit or miss. Sometimes it times out completely. Sometimes it only loads the text. Sometimes it loads everything fine. This is all just this morning.
 
linglingface

linglingface

Earlier it loaded just text for me, but I opened a thread and it was just fine. And sometimes it takes a while to load, but once it's done loading it's all good. Hrmmm
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Widespread. Not for any specific pages.
Tapatalk is responding a lot faster over the AT&T network than it is via wifi and my Comcast connection. It's somewhere in the Comcast chain.
 
M

makare

the forum is slow a lot of the time for me. it gets really aggravating.
 
P

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Any site can be slow from time to time.

Even more, I sometimes cannot even access some sites, including google.com, for quite a time while http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ shows they are up.

This can happen when, for example, a DDOD attack is coming from your area/direction (or vice versa), so datacenter (or ISP) of a site filters packets from your region
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

It's just weird that I'm navigating the site faster with a 1.5Mbps DSL than with a 20Mbps cable connection. Same town, same computer, nearly the same time.
 
MindDetective

MindDetective

All other web pages load great for me. Here, I get time-outs and pages loading only as text. Something is definitely different with the site for me.
 
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MindDetective said:
I'm going to try rebooting first.
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Formatting the hard disk is the most efficient and always works for me.

DarkAudit said:
It's just weird that I'm navigating the site faster with a 1.5Mbps DSL than with a 20Mbps cable connection. Same town, same computer, nearly the same time.
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It doesn't depend on one end only (but on a broadband capacities of intermediate servers on the path), IMO...
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

I'll cycle power on router and cable modem when I get home, but I can browse the forums far faster via the work connection than at home, in spite of the much slower total speed.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Tell your neighbors to lay off the Demonoid if you're on cable. DSL isn't as affected by what goes on next door.

--Patrick
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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I find it odd that some are suggesting that this must be a problem with individual computers/connections, when a number of people are having this same issue, starting at the same time.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

PatrThom said:
It's the first step of the troubleshooting process. Find the similarities.

--Patrick
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This. I need to eliminate the possibility that any of my own gear is at issue. I haven't restarted the modem or router in weeks, so flushing the pipes here couldn't hurt.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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PatrThom said:
It's the first step of the troubleshooting process. Find the similarities.
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Seems to me the similarities rule out at least one of your suggested fixes. It's only Halforums that's slow, I can browse other forums with no trouble, the same as others. That seems to rule out the possibility of another program/neighbor hogging bandwidth.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Now try a traceroute. Here's an example from my end (with some obfuscations).

Code: 
traceroute to halforums.com (206.55.124.179), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  0.910 ms  0.268 ms  0.210 ms
2  * * * (<-- I have my WAN IP address stealthed)
3  xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.lightspeed.xxxx.sbcglobal.net (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)  23.830 ms  31.469 ms  21.491 ms
4  75.26.64.98 (75.26.64.98)  21.956 ms  22.196 ms  22.377 ms
5  75.26.64.76 (75.26.64.76)  23.157 ms  26.082 ms  22.387 ms
6  12.83.32.129 (12.83.32.129)  21.982 ms  21.387 ms  21.265 ms
7  gar8.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.133.161)  30.936 ms  30.490 ms  30.340 ms
8  192.205.37.150 (192.205.37.150)  30.545 ms  30.801 ms  30.663 ms
9  vlan51.ebr1.chicago2.level3.net (4.69.138.158)  38.217 ms  38.547 ms  30.729 ms
10  ae-3-3.ebr2.denver1.level3.net (4.69.132.61)  62.858 ms  63.126 ms  87.643 ms
11  ae-4-4.car2.kansascity1.level3.net (4.69.135.237)  67.115 ms  67.603 ms  67.179 ms
12  layered-tec.car2.kansascity1.level3.net (4.53.34.58)  68.727 ms  67.384 ms  66.964 ms
13  te9-1.ocs2.atc.gsinetblock.net (64.57.221.86)  67.708 ms  68.037 ms  67.192 ms
14  206.55.124.179 (206.55.124.179)  67.744 ms  67.788 ms  67.779 ms
Notice it doesn't really start slowing down until it gets to Denver. Still sub-100, though.

You can also try going directly to http://206.55.124.179/xenforo/ and bypass DNS. If that link is amazingly faster than https://www.halforums.com/ then you know you probably have a DNS issue on your hands.

--Patrick
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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There were some time-outs and ping spikes in hops around Dallas. Nothing else unusual in the traceroute.

Also, your link with the IP address gives a 404. Going to the IP address gives a configuration page for Apache.

My ping times for Halforums are in the twenties.
 
Dave

Dave

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Really the only thing I did in the past few days is to change the styles.

What styles do you guys all use? Maybe it's one of those.
 
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