Forum slow

[ninjaneer]

boostmax, holy crap. how did you fly underneath my radar? when did you join? i ride around the "melbourne metropolis".

i am thinking this is an isp thing. the three guys on brighthouse are all having difficulties. ugh.

 

[ninjaneer]

Buster,
I talked with my ISP's support hotline. The specialist seemed very sure with his claim that what us Central Floridians are experiencing is a DNS problem. He said to emphasize the fact that the forum is the only site loading slowly and that we are not having this "slow" problem with any other websites. I'll send you a PM, just in case you are not watching this thread. he said that you would know what to do.

honestly, i can't imagine being a DNS problem. I tried to connect to the forum using the forum's IP Address and experience the same "slow" prob.

 

[ninjaneer]

so i tried specifying my primary and alternative dns servers instead of obtaining them automatically. it sure sped up the other websites, but not this forum. i tried that visual traceroute and thought i found the bottleneck with some hops over in virginia. however, i tested other canadian sites like www.calagry.ca and www.canada.org which essential used the same routing pattern. i could see that calgary.ca and canada.org packets were being routed to the same routers and going through the same backbone as that of the vmaxforum.net packets, yet the calgary.ca and canada.org websites were loading at normal speeds.

any ideas?

 

[naughtyG]

I had the same problem when in Florida, especially in Tampa, and I was on Verizon optical line. And for me too, just about everything else was fine, but this forum was always 'delayed' in loading every page. It's nowhere as bad in Oz, or here in the UK.

 

[Buster Hymen]

Buster,
I talked with my ISP's support hotline. The specialist seemed very sure with his claim that what us Central Floridians are experiencing is a DNS problem. He said to emphasize the fact that the forum is the only site loading slowly and that we are not having this "slow" problem with any other websites. I'll send you a PM, just in case you are not watching this thread. he said that you would know what to do.

honestly, i can't imagine being a DNS problem. I tried to connect to the forum using the forum's IP Address and experience the same "slow" prob.

Hmm... well all dns supplies is an IP to the domain name. This forum has a dedicated IP of 69.27.101.36 . You can try pasting that in your URL bar of your browser to see if the site loads faster. You can modify your hosts file with this too so that it doesn't use a DNS server to look up the forum IP but I don't know if this is a DNS issue.

 

[ninjaneer]

agreed buster, there is no way this is a dns problem. this is a packet switching problem in one of the routers in the brighthouse and shaw isp backbones. i just confirmed this by proxy-ing into the forum, which causes the packet exchange to take a different route. as a result, i'm experiencing GREAT download speeds. it's not entirely fantastic because the php interface is crippled. maybe i'll keep looking for a proxy server that'll work better. this sucks, because unless i can pinpoint which router in the hop trace is hosed, my isp's tech support is just gonna blow me off. ugh. i guess i'll keep going through a proxy until some network admin in the chain trips over their plug and resets the problematic router.

 

[Buster Hymen]

agreed buster, there is no way this is a dns problem. this is a packet switching problem in one of the routers in the brighthouse and shaw isp backbones. i just confirmed this by proxy-ing into the forum, which causes the packet exchange to take a different route. as a result, i'm experiencing GREAT download speeds. it's not entirely fantastic because the php interface is crippled. maybe i'll keep looking for a proxy server that'll work better. this sucks, because unless i can pinpoint which router in the hop trace is hosed, my isp's tech support is just gonna blow me off. ugh. i guess i'll keep going through a proxy until some network admin in the chain trips over their plug and resets the problematic router.

That's great to hear, but also sucks that you have to use a proxy. I've traced issues to major backbone routers before (usually conflicting routes), but getting it fixed by their tech is almost impossible. I'm currently looking into a few front end optimization solutions, so we'll see if that fixes all the issues.

 

[Fire-medic]

I just downloaded I. Explorer 9 and my pages appear to build more-quickly.

 

[ninjaneer]

agreed buster, there is no way this is a dns problem. this is a packet switching problem in one of the routers in the brighthouse and shaw isp backbones. i just confirmed this by proxy-ing into the forum, which causes the packet exchange to take a different route. as a result, i'm experiencing GREAT download speeds. it's not entirely fantastic because the php interface is crippled. maybe i'll keep looking for a proxy server that'll work better. this sucks, because unless i can pinpoint which router in the hop trace is hosed, my isp's tech support is just gonna blow me off. ugh. i guess i'll keep going through a proxy until some network admin in the chain trips over their plug and resets the problematic router.

unk:YAY! I guess my wishes came true and someone tripped over a router plug. :rofl_200:I no longer have to VPN into the job's T3 or proxy through to the site. Am back to the normal speeds through my ISP.

 

[CaptainKyle]

Sucks mine is still slow !

 

[jbretthorton]

Mine also still