Forums unbearable slow

[Tels]

Does anybody else have this problem? In the (European) evenings the forum is unbearable slow. The server is delivering about 8Kbyte/s, sometimes less and usually stops midwhere during loading the page. Sometimes you can't even get the index page, sometimes you can log in, but then only get half of the overview etc.

 

In the mornings everything is snappy.

[stumpy]

you could always do a trace route test in the evenings and find out which server is causing the slow down on windows its

tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

ip address for thedarkmod.com in the x's. don't know what the command is on linux though.

[Bikerdude]

Was ok last night and seem to be ok now, internet hickup..?

[Obsttorte]

I have the same problem sometimes.

[Sotha]

I've not detected unbearable slowness. There are occasional bearable slownesses that I can live with.

[PranQster]

on linux, it is 'traceroute'

as root,

traceroute xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[stumpy]

i did a trace route in the morning and in the evening and got the same speed which is 41ms. so am guessing its traffic on the server, less people in the morning, either gone to work, school, didn't get up because of the cold weather, time difference. More people in the evening as that seems to be the time when most people are on. morning and evening relate to european time.

[Tels]

It might be traffic, but it likely something else, either a routing problem or a misconfiguration on the server.

 

Morning: Ping 145 ms for me

Evening: Ping does not return for me, ping 400ms from south africa for Serpentine (at the same time!)

 

Yesterday I used an external tool, and it returned 100 packet lost from all worldwide locations. Even in the morning, this one:

 

http://www.just-ping.com/index.php?vh=forums.thedarkmod.com&c=&s=ping!

 

Had packet loss between 50% and 100%.

 

Serpentine mused it might be a IPv6 misconfiguration somewhere (but unlikely on the client, or it occurs on all clients at the same time).

 

Modetwo, didn't you say you changed the DNS on the server lately? Did you change anything else?

[7upMan]

Tes, I'm happy to see you report this problem. I already suspected someone having hacked my router, or a virus on my computer, or whatever internal problem, because no-one else seemed to have this computer. Now that I think about it, it might have something to do with the ISP. Mine is T-Online. I don't know anything about ping'ing websites (I'm on Windows 7 64).

[Tels]

Yesterday morning I wanted to post the traceroute, but then the forum did no longer respond, again.

 

It seems to be some routing problem between German Telekom (I'm using Congster, which is their "cheap" rate) and Level 3:

 

traceroute to forums.thedarkmod.com (108.165.22.226), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1  xxxx (x.x.x.x)  0.351 ms  0.760 ms  0.939 ms
2  217.0.116.34 (217.0.116.34)  43.169 ms  45.542 ms  48.475 ms
3  217.0.66.114 (217.0.66.114)  55.260 ms  55.529 ms  58.470 ms
4  217.239.39.22 (217.239.39.22)  60.941 ms  63.779 ms  66.244 ms
5  te-3-0-0.edge5.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.68.62.141)  68.924 ms 62.157.250.70 (62.157.250.70)  72.327 ms  75.221 ms
6  vlan90.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.254)  180.237 ms vlan70.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.126)  73.602 ms vlan80.csw3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.190)  185.604 ms
7  ae-92-92.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.29)  178.661 ms  146.451 ms ae-62-62.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.17)  146.488 ms
8  ae-23-23.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.148.193)  149.673 ms  152.492 ms  155.426 ms
9  ae-44-44.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.137.78)  159.415 ms ae-42-42.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.137.70)  162.209 ms ae-41-41.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.137.66)  166.262 ms
10  ae-7-7.car2.Detroit1.Level3.net (4.69.133.249)  166.508 ms  169.335 ms  172.260 ms
11  ae-11-11.car1.Detroit1.Level3.net (4.69.133.245)  176.734 ms  179.855 ms  182.254 ms
12  NEXCESS.car1.Detroit1.Level3.net (4.53.76.118)  187.761 ms *  194.294 ms
13  * 208.86.248.6 (208.86.248.6)  146.155 ms *
14  * 207.32.191.254 (207.32.191.254)  153.926 ms  155.810 ms
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Guess we need to file a complaint with either one - but reading some threads on the internet, I don't think this will lead to anywhere.

 

 

Another possibility is an agressive filtering on the forum server - I have the habit of opening multiple threads to read them later, maybe that blocks then the IP for a certain time. But it looks more likely it is routing, as 7upman is on Telekom, too.

[Obsttorte]

I'm on FONIC and I encounter this problem, too.

[Baal]

Same problem here.