Has POTN been exceptionally slow, or is it me

Ronald S. Jr. wrote in post #2571966
Not to continue hijacking, but I downloaded spybot, and it apparently got rid of 53 "problems", but I still can't open a command prompt. Guess I'll have to fork over the $50 for the upgrade.

That's a bummer. I presume that the $50 is for your current anti-virus subscription, but in the meantime, you could try Panda ActiveScan which is a free online check down through your browser.

My ping stats......

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Byte size: ZERO | PHOTOBUCKET ERROR IMAGE

rudgej wrote in post #2571992
That's a bummer. I presume that the $50 is for your current anti-virus subscription, but in the meantime, you could try Panda ActiveScan which is a free online check down through your browser.

And then spend the money to buy the full version of Panda...best protection I have found.

POTN is hosted at EV1Servers which recently merged with The Planet - EV1 was a good company, and The Planet was a good company - but since their merger I have been having a lot of issues with the Planet (where my servers are kept)...

Something else - EV1 uses Cogent bandwidth, which is cheap bandwidth (100Mbps for $1K/month) - yet it is cheap bandwidth... They don't "peer" with other providers in every major city - so when I run a traceroute to a Cogent host in Portland Oregon I first have to go to San Francisco and then back up to Portland - 16 hops total even though they are just a few blocks apart....


All of that said - your performance issues could just be how your provider is peered with Cogent....

My ping....

Byte size: ZERO | Content warning: NOT AN IMAGE

No problems here:

Pinging photography-on-the.net [216.40.233.201] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.40.233.201: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=46
Reply from 216.40.233.201: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=46
Reply from 216.40.233.201: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=46
Reply from 216.40.233.201: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=46

Ping statistics for 216.40.233.201:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 55ms, Maximum = 60ms, Average = 57ms

From Atlanta, GA.

Pinging photography-on-the.net [216.40.233.201] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.40.233.201: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=53
Reply from 216.40.233.201: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=53
Reply from 216.40.233.201: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=53
Reply from 216.40.233.201: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 216.40.233.201:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 34ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 34ms

Average 56ms here

Just a quick update. I called my provider today and we had a long chat. They told me that they are doing some work in the area but it should not be affecting my performance. They said that they would "monitor" it for a bit and I should call them back Monday. Sounds like a brush off to me but what the heck. I'll keep pinging them until something gets done. It is driving me crazy. I can load the page once, twice, no problems. Third time can take a minute to load. It is very erratic. I have started using their own home page as it also shows the same behavior only a lot worse. Round trip times can be as short as 32ms or forever with mostly a 50% timeout but sometimes as high a 75%. Anyway, thanx to all respondents. It is clearly an issue between me and my provider.

I experience the POTN slowness quite often. Try and click on a thread and its as if the site freezes up. This has been an issue for a while, kinda learned to deal with it though.

No junk on my system either so thats not the problem. Other sites work fine.

results from the west coast...

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Ronald S. Jr. wrote in post #2571966
Not to continue hijacking, but I downloaded spybot, and it apparently got rid of 53 "problems", but I still can't open a command prompt. Guess I'll have to fork over the $50 for the upgrade.

Spybot (and adaware, etc) are good at dealing with 90% of spyware but something that locks out your command prompt is a trojan or a piece of spyware built well enough that it can protect itself. The $50 would be a waste of money. It probably came with something you downloaded an installed, casino software, cool looing little weather apps, or similar.

The best solution in that sort of circumstance is to reformat. It's actually a pretty good thing to do every 6 to 12 months anyway. If not a decent virus checker or trojan removal software will probably do the job.

I gave up ping (pong) years ago when my friend's wife routinely trounced me.

But I HAVE BEEN experiencing slowdowns on this site, especially when replying to threads.

It's caused me to stop the loading and attempt to submit again, and that's resulted in dupe posts.

me

I've been getting timeouts during replies, maybe 10% of the time. I'm at the point now where I copy my post into the clipboard (a quick Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C) before hitting 'submit reply' just in case.

Originally I was getting DNS timeout failures which was an Optimum Online problem, confirmed by others on broadbandreports.com. I switched to OpenDNS and haven't had a DNS failure since, but I still get about 5-10% timeout or near timeout on POTN hits lately.

Well, the weekend monitoring of my link yielded results. I guess that there were not feeding me a line after all. When we called this morning with out case #, they said that there indeed is something wrong. Their thought is that the cable modem has somehow begun to fail. In any case, they are headed out here tomorrow first thing new cable modem in hand. Yea..

P.S. I have done a bit more poking around and nearly all web sites I access have some timed out packets. Today POTS is 50/50, sometimes quick, sometimes not. but my carriers home page sucks and continues to have over 50% of the packets time out.