Forum slow & locking up.

**bigbore** · 09-27-06, 16:34

Originally Posted by VA_Dinger

FYI - I seem to be having a problem from time to time with the forum locking up between pages or when I jump to a new thread. Usually it just times out.

Happens all the time with me, and is the main reason I dont post here often. I know several folks who dont come here at all because its just too damn slow.

**DrMark** · 09-28-06, 07:18

Originally Posted by bigbore

Happens all the time with me, and is the main reason I dont post here often. I know several folks who dont come here at all because its just too damn slow.

It is just about the slowest of any forum I go to, unfortunately.

**TOrrock** · 09-28-06, 14:53

Same here, and I'm using a cable modem.

**Admin** · 09-28-06, 15:07

Can you guys saying it's slow do me a favor and ping the site?

Just open a command prompt window and type "ping www.m4carbine.net" (without quotes) and post the average ping time, and % loss.

Much appreciated!

**yrac** · 09-28-06, 16:04

Originally Posted by Admin

Can you guys saying it's slow do me a favor and ping the site?

Just open a command prompt window and type "ping www.m4carbine.net" (without quotes) and post the average ping time, and % loss.

Much appreciated!

4:58 PM Eastern, 9/28/06
Executed ping command 4 times. Each time had zero% loss. Times averaged from 86ms to 88ms. (For reference, the same ping to Yahoo.com averaged 18ms.) The site homepage displays reasonable quickly. It takes a few seconds to "paint" all of the sponsor images, but not long. The delay is in accessing specific threads. Currently taking 8-10 seconds from the time I click a link to the time the thread is opened.

**Admin** · 09-28-06, 17:48

Thanks yrac.

That ping isn't great but it's acceptable. No way should it be taking 10 seconds to load a thread. When I click into an uncached new thread it takes 2 seconds tops on my slowest connection in IE. In Firefox it's just about instantaneous.

Please bear with me while I try to figure out what might be causing this. It's working fine here so I'm taking stabs in the dark...

Does it seem any better now?

**Damon** · 09-28-06, 20:46

Average of 106 ms with 0% loss. I did a trace route and it looks slows travelling from east coast to the west coast. I tried it several times and there are usually a few "request timed out" trying to find the first hop across the US. The ISP is Level3 where this happens.