Question Having some trouble with the board, slow, dies out, etc.

[hydin]

Hey

Over the past few months, I have noticed a problem with the board, regardless of where I am trying to use it (out of state, when I was at work, at home, on cell phone, etc).

It just suddenly stops working, and takes a good 2-3 mins to refresh/reload a page, or just submit a reply, edit a post, etc. No real specific time, just boom, it's down and I am wondering what happened.

When it slows down like that I load things like ebay, paypal, misc other forums I read, and everything is awesome. I don't lose connections for mail or usenet stuff, just this board.

I thought it was me, but it's been catching me everywhere I go, and I dunno if it's cause I am paranoid, or my GIANT HUGE EGO post count is lagging up the lines or what :lol .

I did do a trace route tonight after running into more trouble, and here it is :

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert www.therpf.com

Tracing route to therpf.com [72.167.48.73]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.128.8.1
3 11 ms 9 ms 9 ms 24.248.104.6
4 8 ms 9 ms 12 ms btnrdsrj02-ge110.0.rd.br.cox.net [24.248.104.182
]
5 18 ms 17 ms 19 ms dalsbprj01-ae0.0.rd.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.142]
6 19 ms 19 ms 21 ms ge-2-0-0.mpr1.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.26.209]

7 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms xe-2-1-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.30.57]
8 55 ms 55 ms 55 ms xe-1-1-0.mpr3.phx2.us.above.net [64.125.30.149]

9 46 ms 47 ms 48 ms 64.124.196.38.allocated.above.net [64.124.196.38
]
10 49 ms 51 ms 49 ms ip-208-109-112-137.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.
112.137]
11 49 ms 49 ms 49 ms ip-208-109-112-161.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.
112.161]
12 52 ms 47 ms 47 ms ip-208-109-113-157.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.
113.157]
13 61 ms 161 ms 82 ms ip-208-109-113-170.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.
113.170]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

Again, this is on a daily basis pretty much, but it seems to peter out around that secureserver.net .

Since I don't see umpteen jillion threads complaining about I think it might be me (regardless of paranoia :lol ), or maybe a setting in my account, but it's hitting me across different browsers, different pc's, etc.

Am I just horribly unlucky with this?

Thanks
Chris

 

[Mercury]

It happens to a lot of people I believe. I know I see it randomly. My Firefox will just be waiting...waiting...etc. I'll usually just close the tab and try again in a minute or two and it will be back working. I seem to remember a post on the matter a while back but not sure if it was pertaining to this specific issue.

 

[Invicta]

You're not alone on this. Every now and then it just slows down for no reason so I just go to another site for a couple of minutes then come back and it's working fine.

I usually blame TWC for it. Then I blame TWC for a lot of things.

 

[Montagar]

Unfortunately in this case doing a trace route will not help diagnose the problem. Even when things are working perfectly, you will not get a trace route past any of the secureserve.net servers. Do a trace route when everything is working fine and you will see that it always fails at those servers.

 

[hydin]

Poop.

Still acting up on a daily basis now (did it a few seconds ago when I was replying to a PM), but no idea what I can do to diagnose/help the problem.

Guess I just learn to live with it

Chris

 

[sycor]

I have problems too. I can be reading a thread and when I go back to the main forum (any main forum) it just hangs on the reload. Very frustrating.