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Board Speed

Slow for anyone else? Now?
 
Better now it seems. Blip.
 
It was pretty woozy for me for a few minutes there; ping was fine but traceroute showed a few timeouts, and it looked like a problem with the hosts between me and the FTMB.
 
Yes it's been like that for a while, not so bad right now, but it really sucked yesterday.
 
Huge lags in response time for me just 5mins ago...
 
There were databse problems the other day:

www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25534

which slowed things down to a crawl.

Things seem OK today - at least in Blighty but then the gnomes don't have that far to carry the envelopes (at least that's what I assume they mean when they say the Internet is built packet switching technology - perhaps its all porn who knows?). ;)
 
Yep. Could be a problem with my end. (ooh matron)

Saying that, all else is fairly swift around me.

Back to proper speed now...
 
Not, quite... working... p...r...o...p...e...r...l...y..... S...............L..............O..............W

plus:

Sorry your request cannot be processed at the moment. Please try again later
 
Aye, took the board several minutes to log me in just now.
 
Is it me or is there a prob - my postings appear eventually but are really slow and end up as error pge not found.

-
 
I have a problem each time I vote in a poll. If I forget to put my password in first, I'm prompted for the password, my vote is cast and then I'm left with a blank screen and the FT banner logo. I have to log back in again, revisit the thread and then recast my vote before it works.

I'm using Moz so what's the problem?
 
I'm happy to report that the FTMB seems to be working very fast today.
No more waiting minutes for pages to load.

Have the hamsters been put on a high-energy diet? :D
 
I think it's faster too. When it goes s-l-o-w I pop off to look at kittens.
 
At times it has been Ultra slow today the rest of the time merely slow, this is now the slowest site I go to, others which I have previously said could be slower have all got waaaaay quicker. :cry: :?
 
The

MB

is

so

slow

today

I

may

die

of

old

age

before

this

gets

posted

:evil: :evil: :evil:
 
This place has been incredibly slow for me since the 'update'. I'm on dial-up at home and it really is mind-boggling how slow it is.
 
jefflovestone said:
This place has been incredibly slow for me since the 'update'. I'm on dial-up at home and it really is mind-boggling how slow it is.
Maybe the site's simply groaning under the weight of all the manga/Mangel/mango/Scaramanga/mango pictures?
 
Peripart said:
jefflovestone said:
This place has been incredibly slow for me since the 'update'. I'm on dial-up at home and it really is mind-boggling how slow it is.
Maybe the site's simply groaning under the weight of all the manga/Mangel/mango/Scaramanga/mango pictures?

No, I'm on about just reading pages primarily made-up of text. It's the only tab I have open in Firefox too.
 
I'm on broadband and it's agonisingly slow sometimes.

Blimey, Jeff, if you're on dial-up, I'm surprised we get a post from you more than once a fortnight.
 
Fizz32 said:
I'm on broadband and it's agonisingly slow sometimes.

Blimey, Jeff, if you're on dial-up, I'm surprised we get a post from you more than once a fortnight.

I think the slowness is a plot to stop people like me who KNOW THE TRUTH from posting on the conspiracy boards. I'm intrigued as to how this has only started since Jerry-B became a moderator!

[/kathaksung]
 
Fizz32 said:
Blimey, Jeff, if you're on dial-up, I'm surprised we get a post from you more than once a fortnight.
Probably explains why a lot of other people don't post much too... :(
 
.........groan...............

:p

(this is from 2 weeks ago)
 
Someone give me a gun.

I will put this board out of it's misery.
 
This is terrible. Abominably slow.

Mods: Can you push this complaint upstairs with an angry note stuck to it. Written in blood. Double-underlined. With a picture of their puppy with a target superimposed on it. Please.
 
Yep. Very bad last night.

tried to make several posts, don't know if they got through...
 
Not sure if the problem is with the FTMB itself.

I get the feeling that the entire internet is s-l-o-w-i-n-g d-o-w-n

eg: In the past couple of days I've been timed out just trying to to get my e-mails; also had problems with connecting with servers to get access to my usual websites.

possible: with the financial exchanges in melt-down is there more traffic on the net at the moment causing gridlock all round?
 
And Skype is down. Which is outrageous. (ok, just very annoying)
 
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