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[Rch]

Muhammad,On both my home 56K modem and at work with a T1 line, the loading bar graft stall one third along the way with 2-3 minutes for each page to load. This has been since last night. Other sites seem OK.
[15-20 min. later] I was just on the web at THE NEW YORK TIMES SITE, at work, and it was pretty much the same thing as far as being slow.
RCH<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Rch on 1/2/01 05:27 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[Muhammad]

It is almost impossible to know how each router out there is performing, and when. But from the sound of it you are going through one that is hanging up somewhere when accessing our site, as well as the NY Times site... it all depends on how you are routed to the sites. Most sites are going to have different paths since every site is on a different server, which is why our site an NY Times might be hanging up, but all others working fine. At the same time, others can probably access both fine. Let me know when it returns to normal speed...

 

[Bird]

Earlier this afternoon, the same thing happened to me on both this site and the CTB, although others seemed to be working all right, and this one is now.

Bird

 

[BobT]

Bird & slow pokes...

You can go to this link Check Internet Status to see the current status of various major bandwidth service providers.

When I checked, UUNet was showing a 100% packet loss, meaning it is down, out of service. UUNet has backbones on both coasts, and is one of the major US suppliers of bandwidth to ISPs. If UUNet is down, that surely would create various bottlenecks, and account for speed problems.

BobT.
A Indiana Boy

 

[BobT]

Note for speed problems...

Whenever you have problems accessing a site, there is a fantastic little utility that allows you to see the actual route your computer takes to reach a particular destination. The program, Neotrace, has lots of neat features, including the ability to show a map of each transfer point along the way. You just enter the destination URL into Neotrace, and it reports back in a few seconds. The log of the trace can be captured and sent to your ISP to help them resolve latency (speed) issues.

Link to Neotrace.

Neotrace is not free, and there are a few others programs that do the same thing which do not cost anything. Search for them on ZDNet downloads.

BobT.
A Indiana Boy

 

[Rch]

A couple hours later and every thing is speeding along, including THE NY TIMES

RCH

 

[Bird]

Yep, going right along now. Thanks for the information, BobT. Of course when you know as much as I know about computers, you just know there's a kink in the hose somewhere./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[BobT]

Heck Bird, that's what it always boils down to for tech folks too!

BobT.
A Indiana Boy