Very slow lately?

[Graham.J]

Ted,

PH has been really slow over the past two days and still is extremely slow now and I'm on 600k broadband.

Is it just me?

Cheers,

Graham

[FunkyNige]

Graham.J said:

Is it just me?

Normal speed for me, cable (I'm assuming that's what you've got) tends to go slow Sunday afternoons/evenings in my experience.

[Graham.J]

I'm on Cable yes, it really is exceptionally slow at the moment and isn't loafing the pages at all unless I refresh them about 5 times.

[Pies]

Fine on Dial up

[All Terrain]

Its Been terrible since friday night with me. Im twin ISDN. It takes ages to load some pages and none for others. Not good.

[PetrolTed]

Must be network congestion. The servers are running sweetly right now with huge amounts of capacity left.

[nevpugh308]

I've noticed a general slow down on PH recently too. Sometimes it's so bad I open another browser and go and have a quick look at www.b3ta.com or bbc.co.uk or something, whilst waiting for PH to load.

Sometimes it's not that bad, but just a general 1 or 2 second slow down.

Ted, which side of the atlantic link are your server(s) ? My site's on a server in America, and I've noticed that getting across to the states can be a real dog sometimes now-a-days. Must be all the spam/p*rn/virii flying round ....

Nev (600k BB)

[PetrolTed]

The servers are based in central London at one of the main UK datacentres. The recent investment also mean there's plenty of capacity at the server. I'll check it out but it's nowhere near capacity currently.

[GregE240]

No problems here (NTL piece of string/ bits of car/things with flashing lights)

In the office its fine too (ADSL type huge pipe thing)

At home it seems fine (baked bean tins with hamsters running around wheels)

[nevpugh308]

Maybe it's a specific BB provider who's creating the bottleneck ? Graham.J ... who do you use ? (I'm with NTL)

[FourWheelDrift]

Graham.J said:

I'm on Cable yes, it really is exceptionally slow at the moment and isn't loafing the pages at all unless I refresh them about 5 times.

My pages seem to "loaf" just as quickly as normal, however it the site does sometimes hang after I have posted a message, just a blank screen (doesn't go to the "thank you for posting" screen, but the message has been posted ok)

[PetrolTed]

If you're saying its slow at the moment then I can confirm it's nothing to do with the site itself as I'm accessing it fine and all the monitoring reports the server as being tickety-boo

[alunr]

If you guys who are having a problem have PC's then goto DOS and type - TRACERT www.pistonheads.com and then email me the results I'll try and see where the bottleneck is occuring.

The name of your ISP might help too...

>> Edited by alunr on Tuesday 22 July 14:13

[Graham.J]

FourWheelDrift said:

My pages seem to "loaf" just as quickly as normal

Oh D is next to F, *mutters*

Nev - I'm on NTL too had a few problems over the past few days, whole modem just died completely yesterday.

[nevpugh308]

Hmmm. Not had general problems, apart from PH being sparodically slow (fine at the moment)

Though I did have one heart stopping moment the other day when I had both computers going, and there was this god almighty flash of lightning out of the blue, which turned both computers off, and stopped the modem working for 30 minutes (then it just came back to life !) ... thought it was fried !

[Graham.J]

alunr said:

If you guys who are having a problem have PC's then goto DOS and type - TRACERT www.pistonheads.com and then email me the results I'll try and see where the bottleneck is occuring. The name of your ISP might help too... >> Edited by alunr on Tuesday 22 July 14:13

Unable to resolve target system name www.pistonheads.com

Did the same with http:// in front too.

[_Al_]

I'm on BT broadband : it's been very slow recently. I keep double posting as I loose patience with the submit button...

Tracert gives 17 steps, two of which seem noticably slower than the rest, at 67ms as opposed to 17.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to post the IP addys on here..

[PetrolTed]

The guys who host pistonheads (www.carrenza.com) have done some investigation and it turned out to be DSL routers elsewhere on the net. They contacted the company involved and hopefully they'll be able to sort it.