Timotheus 416 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Lately, FDM has been (relative to other sites) terribly slow on my pc, with loading times regularly over a minute where other pages load under 10 secs. Does anyone of you know why I'm experiencing this, and what I can do to make it run fast again? Visiting the forum is hell for me atm, posting or viewing threads takes ages. The strange thing is, I'm typing this from a pc at my university, and everything's OK here. Link to comment
myles 2 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Give us some info to work with Timo? Say what kinda pc you have, what kinda connection you use, what browser etc. Hopefully it will be sort out soon. Link to comment
Yarasa 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Try to use different browser with your pc to test it. I don't know what are you using at home but here are some major options to chose from: ie explorer, firefox, opera or maxthon. If the other browsers doing same as what you are using currently, you might be missing some add-on. If other browsers working normally, just try to find what might be missing on your slow browser. Try to clean your temp files (it don't really help but better than nothing), etc. Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 Hey there Timo. Are you still having trouble browsing the forum? It's possible that our recent upgrade may have caused a temporary problem for some people. Yarasa's suggestion is a great one in case it is a browser issue. Let us know how things are going with that. P.s. Can you tell me how long it has been happening and is it every time you visit? Thanx! Link to comment
Llama8 8 Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Tim's posted a thread on the SIF, here. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 wow, is this still going on? I'm heading over to the sif now. Llama thanks for the link. gogo Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted September 23, 2007 Author Share Posted September 23, 2007 It's mayhem. Check the thread on the SIF for updates because I'm spending about 2 hours trying to post something here. Link to comment
Funkilicious 1 Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Timo, have you checked your laptop for virii and spyware? also check to see if have the correct primary and secondary DNS for your isp loaded correctly. Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Thanx for answering Timo's call for help and giving us a link Llama. I've responded to our poor Timo on the SIF. I'll post what I've said there in the hopes that someone here might have some insight into the situation based on the facts I put forth: With any luck it will resolve itself... I hope! Can you try installing a new browser like Opera and test darkmatters with it?And maybe PM me your msn? lol The only thing I can say at this point is that during our upgrade last week what happened was that the site was moved to a new server. Meaning the nameserver of our site changed. I don't know for certain if that is the source of your trouble but that is the only thing that changed. Thinking about it a little more I do recall that some people were not able to access darkmatters some hours after the upgrade and some were. As I'm told, when an upgrade like this occurs it will take some time before everyone will be able to access the site. Specifically, that the DNS needs to propagate. Could it be that you are still catching up? Just a thought. I'm no expert. News from my tech support may clear that idea... Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 Went ahead with your suggestion schot, and now I'm able to view pages in about 2 minutes. Not lightningspeed, but a helluvalot quicker than before. Thanks everyone for helping me and I've run adaware/spybot to no avail. I chuckled when I tried running pandasoftware's free antivirus scan and avast! reported a worm in the installation files... Anyway, I'll get back here again Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 (edited) Went ahead with your suggestion schot, and now I'm able to view pages in about 2 minutes. Not lightningspeed, but a helluvalot quicker than before. Thanks everyone for helping me and I've run adaware/spybot to no avail. I chuckled when I tried running pandasoftware's free antivirus scan and avast! reported a worm in the installation files... Anyway, I'll get back here again Spoke too soon. FDM started acting up in Opera as well. My conclusion: It is a connection issue. I started a VPN connection to my university and whammo! lightningspeed Changing between VPN and normal connection the speed drops from (x)xx kB/s to xxx B/s. Edited September 24, 2007 by Timotheus Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 In the sif someonw was talking about a bottleneck issue. That would make sense...that the route taking you to fdm from your house is very much more difficult than the one from school or other sites. Timo, I hope your isp resolves this soon...I miss the food posts gogo Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted September 27, 2007 Author Share Posted September 27, 2007 Hey all sort of back in business now, but I'm using a VPN connection atm. Only goot thing is that at least I can use IE7 for browsing now. I'll hold on for now, in October the new contract should become active, I'll wait till everything's transferred etc before taking any action. Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Oh thank god for the university, lol. What a drag it's been for you Timo, ugh. Hopefully that new contract will totally clear things up for you... Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 Well I don't see a change yet, so I'll hold it off a bit longer, a few days that is. The less graphic forum version is quicker than sterling sacred, though there's not much of a difference without that VPN connection.... Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 (edited) Ah, I contacted the ISP and they called minutes ago. My mom had absolutely no clue why they were calling lol. Turns out, we're having an IP adress in a bad range, the problems are known and they are still busy trying to solve it. The problem: contacting the .org domain. Solution: hard one: changing mac adress of the router, turning off/on modem. Easy: turning the modem off for over 6 hours. I'll be in touch Edited October 3, 2007 by Timotheus Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 They cut you off from us?! Wow... That's very strange Timo. Glad to know you're on the recovery though. So I guess we'll know if things have improved for you in about 2 hours. Crossing fingers for you my friend! Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 good god your isp is not routing you to .org's? gogo Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 There's a string of IP's at the .77 range or something which somehow does not get you to .org as they should. Apparently, turning the modem off for six hours disconnects us completely, and we'll get a complete new IP on reconnecting. He said that that's basically the best option. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 You should consider sending their response to another isp and ask them if it holds any water. This just sounds so strange man...I mean... .org's are one of the top three domains on the web. Any isp provider who's having these kinds of problems just sounds so wonky. I really hope you can get this sorted out Timo. gogo Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 The options given by the ISP did not work. I now know why. UPC has been giving out IP's from 77.xxx range, and apparently they are not functioning. I've found messages saying those IP's are probably on blacklists, because they were used for spam (in the past). There's not really a solution, since UPC continues to give out these 77.xxx IP's, even when resetting/getting a new mac-adress. So I'm stuck on a VPN connection. This blows. Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Can you demand a change of IP from your ISP Timotheus? Or maybe your money back... Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 I'll give the demanding a fresh IP a go, but there are apparently soo many users who experience this... The new IP range was contracted so they could supply IP's to all new customers. Oh well, I can always give it a go. I've put the VPN connection manager is in my startup list. I can live with that, it's like using gmail notifier now. Actually, my ISP seems to have some routing trouble (as well, or maybe that's the major problem now, there's no answer to that yet). There is quite a list now of sites that commonly do not work. Other people in the 77.xxx range tried getting to FDM but experienced the same trouble as well. Non- or badly loading sites:http://www.anandtech.com/ http://www.pcstats.com/ http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/...x.php/Main_Page http://www.dailytech.com/ http://www.xbitlabs.com/ http://www.rockandrepublic.com/ http://www.pcper.com/ http://www.stephenking.nl http://www.darkmatters.org From looking at tracerts to various sites (made by others), a lot seems to go wrong after the 8th hop, which is the 3rd international hop: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 6 ms 9 ms 12 ms 10.15.55.1 3 7 ms 8 ms 8 ms p21225.net.upc.nl [212.142.21.225] 4 10 ms 8 ms 8 ms p14232065.net.upc.nl [212.142.32.65] 5 11 ms 8 ms 7 ms nl-ams05a-ra3-ae-1-0.aorta.net [213.46.183.93] 6 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms fr-par02a-rd1-pos-5-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.214] 7 98 ms 99 ms 98 ms us-was01a-rd1-pos-2-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.170] 8 96 ms 97 ms 95 ms us-was02a-ri1-10ge-1-0-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.190 .194] 9 * 98 ms 100 ms eqix.TenGig1-4.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [206.223.1 15.61] 10 * 97 ms * tge2-1.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.31.138] 11 * 99 ms * r1.vadc1.eicomm.net [69.31.30.218] 12 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 13 * * 97 ms 208.65.201.194 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 5 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.15.55.1 3 8 ms 6 ms 9 ms p21225.net.upc.nl [212.142.21.225] 4 9 ms 6 ms 7 ms p14232065.net.upc.nl [212.142.32.65] 5 * 7 ms 7 ms nl-ams05a-ra3-ae-1-0.aorta.net [213.46.183.93] 6 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms fr-par02a-rd1-pos-5-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.214] 7 97 ms 97 ms 96 ms us-was01a-rd1-pos-2-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.170] 8 100 ms 100 ms 99 ms us-was02a-ri1-10ge-1-0-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.190 .194] 9 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 10 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 11 99 ms * 100 ms r1.vadc1.eicomm.net [69.31.30.218] 12 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 13 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 14 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 15 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 16 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 17 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 18 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 19 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 20 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 21 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 22 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 23 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 24 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 25 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 26 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 27 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 28 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 29 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. 30 * * * Time-out bij opdracht. Tracing route to darkmatters.org [208.67.212.56] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 7 ms 8 ms 6 ms 10.15.42.1 2 9 ms 6 ms 6 ms p21065.net.upc.nl [212.142.21.65] 3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms p14232033.net.upc.nl [212.142.32.33] 4 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms nl-ams02a-ra1-ae-1-0.aorta.net [213.46.183.57] 5 9 ms 10 ms 8 ms nl-ams05a-rd1-10ge-15-0.aorta.net [213.46.183.98] 6 15 ms 15 ms 20 ms fr-par02a-rd1-pos-5-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.214] 7 96 ms 98 ms 95 ms us-was02a-rd1-pos-1-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.106] 8 105 ms 96 ms 103 ms us-was02a-ri1-ge-0-0-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.190.190] 9 * 97 ms 97 ms eqix.TenGig1-4.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [206.223.115.61] 10 * * 98 ms TENGIGABIT-2-2.COLO3.ASH1.PTPTECH.NET [209.9.224.6] 11 107 ms 95 ms * 209.9.224.42 12 * * * Request timed out. 13 * * 97 ms ips-208-67-212-56.ipslink.com [208.67.212.56] There are also quite a few which only cause trouble in later hops, but still. (This is almost an exact copy of the post I made at the SIF.) Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 good god...this isp sounds so...sketchy? Is that the word? Is there any other isps that you can change to easily? gogo Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 Not really, no. Plus, we probably won't. I don't think my dad is going to change ISP just because "sonny" can't visit a website... Link to comment
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