Why is this board so "slow"?

Oslo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2004 Posts: 14

Is it only me (located in Norway), or does anyone else have same experience??

pgchimp · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject:

HI

I am experiencing the same continual problem but only with this site

My Broadband connection is slower than a Dial UP connection at most times when using this site only

Pgchimp

Dave · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

All server pages are loading fast for me on a 512k ADSL connection. Forums have been slower over the past few days due to the huge increase in traffic we're seeing for CeBit and everyone flocking to us to read/post messages about the latest announcements being the largest GPS site around.

icsys · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

It's very hit-and-miss. Mostly pages are taking in excess of 20 seconds to load then suddenly it's one or two, then back to over 20 again.

Marky · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:46 am Post subject:

Same here, got to be the slowest pages to load of any site I visit.

Can be at least 15 seconds to load on any page, either forum or any of the reviews etc,

Not complaining though !

A great site, just so slow, drives me mad at times.

It has been like this for months, not just since the Tom ToM 3 stuff,

something is wrong somewhere..

Mark.

Dave · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject:

Mark, this may be down to the ISP or backbone your joining, the slowness has only been this week from what I've seen and I'm joining the BT backbone at ealing, data is then going to telehouse and out to the website as it's off the core backbone at Telehouse.

Send me an email with a tracert to pocketgpsworld.com and I'll take a look.

Oslo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2004 Posts: 14

Dave · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject:

I think I said email, but heh! Anyway, that's the reason, you're going through 21 hops, I don't know why that is, your going through 11 hops to get out of your ISP/country. That is going to add delay to every single page you try to visit.

You're also getting milisecond responses in the hundreds, I'm seeing 21ms on average.

I'd suggest trying a different ISP, there's nothing we can do about that, it's latency around the internet between your ISP and the UK (as it's how you're getting from A to B (our site)).

Here's what I get, and you'll notice the difference!

1 18 ms 17 ms 19 ms btdhg524-hg3.ealing.broadband.bt.net [217.47.135.74]
2 19 ms 20 ms 19 ms 217.47.135.33
3 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms 217.47.135.106
4 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms inh3cs02-500.imsnet3.btopenworld.com [213.1.119.62]
5 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms btfl04-gig8-7.imsnet3.btopenworld.com [213.1.119.157]
6 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms core1-pos6-2.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.9.249]
7 21 ms 26 ms 20 ms core1-pos5-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [194.74.65.129]
8 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms ge-0.linx.londen03.uk.bb.verio.net [195.66.224.138]
9 23 ms 21 ms 21 ms ge-1-5.c00.londen02.uk.bb.verio.net [213.130.47.182]
10 24 ms 22 ms 23 ms ge-25.r2-4.londen02.uk.wh.verio.net [213.130.32.141]
11 26 ms 21 ms 22 ms 62.73.176.126

Carll · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

Pinging www.pocketgpsworld.com [62.73.176.126] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 62.73.176.126: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=46
Reply from 62.73.176.126: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=46
Reply from 62.73.176.126: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=46
Reply from 62.73.176.126: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=46

Ping statistics for 62.73.176.126:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 98ms, Maximum = 101ms, Average = 99ms

I have found over the past two days that the site has slowed down alot!!!!
I have also tried pinging from home, a different isp, same or worse results.
Guys, what is going on?
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MikeB · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:42 am Post subject:

In a word CeBIT.

Since the start of the CeBIT exhibition our traffic seems to have gon up by about 25% this seems to be putting a bit of a strain on the whole site.

We are actively trying to sort something out at the moment.
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Carll · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:42 am Post subject: Slow site access

Thanks for the fast reply.
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Skippy · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

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