Site Very Slow Lately?

[iacas]

Um, Yes? Never haveany problems here.

Yeah, not here either. I can't fix something I can't see myself... If anything I've sped the site up slightly with a change to a MySQL setting.

[kpaulhus]

I agree. Must be his internet service. My pages load in under 2 seconds.

[moose47]

Yeah the issue seems to only be affecting a few of us. The site continues to be unusable for me at home while I can access it fine from a friend's house with the same ISP. I'll have to be content with doing all my browsing from work. Actually doing "work" is overrated anyway.

[iacas]

Yeah the issue seems to only be affecting a few of us. The site continues to be unusable for me at home while I can access it fine from a friend's house with the same ISP. I'll have to be content with doing all my browsing from work. Actually doing "work" is overrated anyway.

Unfortunately nobody's shared enough information - OS, Browser, etc. - that we or you can find the common link and find the problem. I suggest trying a different browser. I don't know if it'll work (probably not?), but it will at least help you to narrow something down.

[NI4NI]

No slow-loading problems with IE 8 / XP SP2 combo (prefer Firefox 3.6.3, but it likes to crash...)

[Ash1974]

Slow for me as well, slow at work 90% of the time and at home sometimes.

Work Laptop
HP6910p/XP Pro/IE8/Gigabit Ethernet connection

Home Laptop
Dell XPS M1530/Win7/Google Chrome/3MB ADSL

Using it now on Work Laptop via 7MB 3G dongle and again it is crawling but loaded this part of the forum fast? maybe you have a load issue on certain pages due to amount of requests?

What are you running this site on IIS6/7? Win Server 2003/2008? I will try and help where I can

[iacas]

What are you running this site on IIS6/7? Win Server 2003/2008? I will try and help where I can

Nothing Windows. Linux and Apache with MySQL 5, and PHP 5.

[NormH3]

i browse from work and home. No issues here. If you haven't already might want to clear cache, reset your broadband modem and router. Make sure there are no kinks in the cable. (OK..I just made the last one up, but the other thoughts are legitimate)

[iacas]

i browse from work and home. No issues here. If you haven't already might want to clear cache, reset your broadband modem and router. Make sure there are no kinks in the cable. (OK..I just made the last one up, but the other thoughts are legitimate)

No, I think I've got it. I bet all the people who find the site to be slow aren't using 100% MONSTER Internet cables. My computer connects via WiFi but I even use solid gold airwaves from MONSTER Cables. Only cost me $2200, which is why the site has a whopping 2-3 ads on it... I had to pay for my Monster cables, you see...

[iacas]

i browse from work and home. No issues here. If you haven't already might want to clear cache, reset your broadband modem and router. Make sure there are no kinks in the cable. (OK..I just made the last one up, but the other thoughts are legitimate)

No, I think I've got it. I bet all the people who find the site to be slow aren't using 100% MONSTER Internet cables. My computer connects via WiFi but I even use solid gold airwaves from MONSTER Cables. Only cost me $2200, which is why the site has a whopping 2-3 ads on it... I had to pay for my Monster cables, you see...

[dmnoland]

OK, here is what I found out after an hour long discussion with 3 levels of tech support. Time Warner cable had me do a trace and a ping on your site. No luck on my end with IE8 and Firefox. The cable company did the same (with a t1 connection) and they also had trouble. But what they told me was during the trace, the first 11 levels of connections were on their network and encountered no problems. However on the 12th level, after leaving their network they encountered something called "timing out" at "telia.net". Now I have no idea what any of this means except a crappy connection for me. Hope this helps. Please try and fix this.

[iacas]

OK, here is what I found out after an hour long discussion with 3 levels of tech support. Time Warner cable had me do a trace and a ping on your site. No luck on my end with IE8 and Firefox. The cable company did the same (with a t1 connection) and they also had trouble. But what they told me was during the trace, the first 11 levels of connections were on their network and encountered no problems. However on the 12th level, after leaving their network they encountered something called "timing out" at "telia.net". Now I have no idea what any of this means except a crappy connection for me. Hope this helps. Please try and fix this.

That's not something we can fix.

telia.net is a network. I don't know if they're a backbone to the Internet at all but if you're going through them to get to The Sand Trap, then that's their issue. Here's my traceroute with some added colors: [7:48pm iacas@Bunny:~] % traceroute thesandtrap.com traceroute to thesandtrap.com (72.47.218.47), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.552 ms 8.625 ms 4.195 ms 2 cpe-174-100-224-1.neo.res.rr.com (174.100.224.1) 20.871 ms 14.924 ms 12.645 ms 3 gig3-8.mlckpa1-rtr1.neo.rr.com (24.164.106.77) 15.123 ms 12.040 ms 13.263 ms 4 gig3-2.hbckpa1-rtr1.neo.rr.com (24.164.104.58) 12.040 ms 13.659 ms 13.060 ms 5 gig1-5.ncntoh1-swt401.neo.rr.com (24.164.106.165) 19.851 ms 17.992 ms 30.236 ms 6 tge10-0.ncntoh1-rtr1.neo.rr.com (24.164.111.164) 25.229 ms 33.054 ms 23.830 ms 7 gig14-0-0.ncntoh1-rtr2.neo.rr.com (24.164.104.170) 17.410 ms 19.500 ms 18.523 ms 8 tge3-0-1.clevoh1-rtr0.mwrtn.rr.com (65.25.137.69) 29.899 ms 23.533 ms 24.609 ms 9 ae-3-0.cr0.dca20.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.70) 31.121 ms 35.366 ms 43.912 ms 10 ae-1-0.pr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.165) 37.363 ms 36.428 ms 32.823 ms 11 teg1-4.ar4.dca3.gblx.net (208.49.195.129) 30.793 ms 32.376 ms 34.445 ms 12 wbs-connect.tengigabitethernet2-4.ar4.lax2.gblx.net (64.208.17.6) 100.176 ms 117.626 ms 98.431 ms 13 br01-1-2.lax4.net2ez.com (64.93.64.162) 96.474 ms 97.647 ms 97.321 ms 14 cr02-1-2.lax4.net2ez.com (64.93.64.78) 105.525 ms 132.434 ms 100.734 ms 15 mt-cr02.mediatemple.net (64.93.75.18) 102.416 ms 101.016 ms 114.654 ms 16 mt-aces-01-01.mediatemple.net (72.10.63.250) 118.897 ms 107.981 ms 97.397 ms 17 vz301.mediatemple.net (72.47.222.9) 100.858 ms 100.774 ms 100.349 ms 18 thesandtrap.com (72.47.218.47) 103.013 ms 102.783 ms 126.790 ms 18 hops is more than I like but in the end I can load a page on this site in a second or two so I don't much care. The red stuff is obviously to my local router. The blue stuff is all on my RoadRunner (Time Warner) network. They're in or around Akron - you can see "clevoh" which likely means "cleveland, ohio". The green stuff is when my network traffic leaves RoadRunner (.rr.) and heads out to the backbones and through the other networks, eventually arriving at MediaTemple which hosts the site. I can't do anything about telia.net. They've either misconfigured something or your ISP has. BTW, here are 10 pings to the site:

None

[dmnoland]

Wel, I replied earlier but something went wrong. I googled telia.net and clicked on their parent company. The delay in loading their page was nearly identical to yours so I think they are certainly the guilty party. However that does not solve the problem. I shot them a brief email but if their whole network is slow I think they would already be aware of the problem. So what now? BTW, why would a connection from Ohio to NC be routed through Sweeden or Finland?

[moose47]

I'll throw my traceroute up here for comparison:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 11 ms 12 ms 7 ms 10.123.224.1
3 17 ms 17 ms 7 ms ten0-3-orld14-ser1.noc.bhn.net [72.31.194.38]
4 13 ms 9 ms 18 ms 71-44-60-138.net.bhntampa.com [71.44.60.138]
5 14 ms 20 ms 12 ms 72-31-194-8.net.bhntampa.com [72.31.194.8]
6 8 ms 11 ms 16 ms 77.228.95.24.cfl.res.rr.com [24.95.228.77]
7 20 ms 18 ms 23 ms ge-1-3-0.cr1.atl20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.104]
8 19 ms 28 ms 41 ms ae-1-0.pr0.atl20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.177]

9 18 ms 33 ms 20 ms 64.209.106.17

10 73 ms 72 ms 73 ms WBS-CONNECT.TenGigabitEthernet2-4.ar4.LAX2.gblx.net [64.208.17.6]
11 72 ms 74 ms 72 ms br01-1-2.lax4.net2ez.com [64.93.64.162]
12 71 ms 71 ms 71 ms cr02-1-2.lax4.net2ez.com [64.93.64.78]
13 71 ms 71 ms 71 ms mt-cr02.mediatemple.net [64.93.75.18]
14 74 ms 72 ms 71 ms mt-aces-01-01.mediatemple.net [72.10.63.250]
15 73 ms 81 ms 71 ms vz301.mediatemple.net [72.47.222.9]
16 89 ms 82 ms 76 ms thesandtrap.com [72.47.218.47]



I don't know what hop 9 is but I'm guessing it's the source of the problem. The first 8 hops match traceroutes I've run on sites that are loading quickly, and 10-16 match yours.

And I've tried every combination of Vista, XP, Firefox, IE, even breaking out the Wii with no luck. I know one of my friends near me also has Bright House and can access the site just fine so I'm going to see if I can get her to run a traceroute and try and isolate the problem.

[iacas]

9 18 ms 33 ms 20 ms 64.209.106.17

Hop 9 looks fine. It's 18, 33, and 20ms.

[nuck81]

So I've been having issues Since Saturday. Literally every button I press on Sand Trap takes 30-45 seconds to load and work. It's like having Dial Up again. I assumed that the Forum or site was updating and it would work itself out but it hasn't yet.

Anything I can do? It's really frustrating and has kept me from reading and surfing since reading two or three threads would take me about ten minutes.

And like I said it's only this site. I haven't any other problems with the net.

[iacas]

So I've been having issues Since Saturday.

On Saturday I updated to 4.0.5. Clear your cache thoroughly.

[retexan599]

Just to update: the extreme slowness that I originally reported in April has been present since then and through yesterday 8/8. However, this afternoon 8/9 the site pages have loaded at the download speeds I was used to prior to April; i.e. the normal broadband speeds. I am not conscious of anything I did with my home system over the last couple of days to cause this improvement (or remove the previous impediment). But it is nice to have the speed back.