TBN SLOW TODAY?

frank_f15 · Mar 21, 2004

IS IT JUST ME or was tbn taking forever to load today? everything else seemed to work fine, the site seems ok now but for the last hour or so it would not load.

Muhammad · Mar 21, 2004

Check the page generation times at the bottom to see if it's a problem on our end.

Junkman · Mar 21, 2004

It is such a problem that I went over to the Country site to report it 2 or 3 times.... never got a reply, but I checked my computer.... ran scans for possible problems..... rebooted.... checked my ISP speed...and finally determined that the site was the problem. It would just come to a screeching halt without any warning.... now it is working fine.... just like it was this morning and then it just went dead.. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Muhammad · Mar 21, 2004

Sounds like a router was down somewhere along the line.

lamarbur · Mar 21, 2004

I also had a problem with TBN right up to half hour ago. I wrote a PM to Muhammed, then wrote back telling him to disregard. I did all the computer checks, even erasing cookies and ten days history. For some strange reson, it worked fine, right after that. Then it went down again. Tried sending PM's and that was shut down also.

frank_f15 · Mar 21, 2004

samething here, works fine for awhile then just freezes, now it is working fine again.

frank_f15 · Mar 21, 2004

can't do that, when it is not loading can't get the page to load so can not check generation time, and when it is working , generation time is under 1 sec in most cases. then sometimes i can get to a page and clik reply, then try to post the reply AND then it frezzes

gone · Mar 21, 2004

Ya i was bumming all day, got it to load once then it froze. my wife felt bad for me. still to wet from snow melt to get outside to do anything. today was a nap day for sure

Junkman · Mar 21, 2004

seems like we have it isolated to the Northeast corridor???? People that I communicate with in the rest of the country say that it hasn't affected them.....

PineRidge · Mar 21, 2004

Junkman asked me earlier today if I was experiencing any problems at TBN. Everything has been up to par as far that I can see with good download speeds.

frank_f15 · Mar 21, 2004

( still to wet from snow melt to get outside to do anything. today was a nap day for sure
)
same here, only not snow melt, just plain snow /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif did not nap(well just a little one) but did get in 2 movies, /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

site seems to be working fine for the last few hours

Hakim · Mar 21, 2004

Sorry you are having speed problems. Usually you can see if it is TBN (or something else) simply by looking at the speed number at the bottom of the page -- "Generated in 0.604 seconds in which 0.543 seconds were spent on a total of 21 queries…"

We have checked the site several times today, and just a couple of people were having slowdowns. If our servers were at fault, we would know that from various system monitors that track loads and response times.

There can be so many things that slow down web access intermittently, and in different times of the day, or parts of the country.

It may be a caching issue with your web provider, or a router issue, or a “worm” loose on the whole net, etc., etc., etc.

You would need to do a trace route to the tractorbynet.com web site. The tools that do that will show you all of the links along the way (usually 10-30 different "stops" or links). You can see packet loss or slow response times.

Also there is a web site called "Internet Traffic Report." Click on the icon for "N America". There is a lot of interesting info on all of the main backbone providers, and their various response times and alerts for any problems.

We do continuously monitor the operations and response of all of our sites. We appreciate your reports, but in this case, with only 2 or 3 people having a problem out of more than 700 who access each day, our conclusion must be that it is a local problem with your PC, or your local provider, or some response issues on a node being used by your provider.

lamarbur · Mar 21, 2004

This means it must be because I and others live near the Junkman.. He's easy to pick on and therefore should take the blame for todays non opening threads;-))

Hakim · Mar 21, 2004

We are getting some un usually high packet loss on trace routes to our servers (AZ to TX via Toronto!). But, this is due to some problem on the Net itself, or one of the large backbone providers, such as MCI, ATT or elsewhere. There really is not one thing we can do about it. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

PineRidge · Mar 21, 2004

This means it must be because I and others live near the Junkman.. He's easy to pick on and therefore should take the blame for todays non opening threads;-))



Heck, you think you have problems I'm clear over here in Ohio and Junkman's still giving me a major migraine. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

lamarbur · Mar 22, 2004

Must be something going on, especially if Toronto is involved. That would explain why Buffalo to Boston area is about the only ones who have been locked out. Every time someone changes a light bulb in Toronto it seems all across I 90 is out of power momentarily.

MadReferee · Mar 22, 2004

I recently wrote a short Windows application in Visual Basic that performs a network router trace, without using the DOS Shell to run the DOS command line app tracert.exe.

If anyone wants this app and its documentation, PM me.