The forums are slow as h***!

nitro2k01 · Post by **nitro2k01** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:21 am

Posting something and even just loading a page takes 5-10 seconds. Does anyone else experience the same? Is there a particular reason for it?
I'm situated in Sweden, which might have something to do with it. I tracerouted forums.benheck.com and found an rise in ping time at a certain node.
I also did a traceroute from Germany with the same result. Probably that's the first node on the other side of the Atlantic. Still, that doesn't explain why the site is slow, since the same tracroute pattern appears o site that are not slowed down.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:39 am

Back in my day, 10-15 seconds was FAST

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:34 am

gamer2 wrote:Back in my day, 10-15 seconds was FAST

...Aren't you like... 20 or something like that?

I've had some issues with the forums too... sometimes it will even take 20-30 seconds to load a page, and I'm on cable.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Post by **lifeisbetterwithketchup** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:51 am

No problems here, with my crappy AT&T DSL.

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:07 am

Some times, the forums load really, really slow. But now? Uhm... I'ts pretty fine to me. (around 1-3 secs)

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:21 am

Much like the elevator business, it has its ups and downs.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:23 am

Electric Rain wrote:
gamer2 wrote:Back in my day, 10-15 seconds was FAST
...Aren't you like... 20 or something like that?

I'm 16 and that was fast even in my day!

The forum main page is slow sometimes, but as soon as I get one page, the rest are usually pretty fast, at least for a while.

theelk · Post by **theelk** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:19 am

It fluctuates for me. When I loaded this reply page, it was nice and fast, but there are slow days. It's good that I control click the "unread post" button on every thread when I visit the forum. That helps on slow days.

Edutainment · Post by **Edutainment** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:26 am

Haven't there been problems with the host for a while now. This is nothing new, just not enough bandwidth. There was a thread about it a while back.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:05 pm

daguuy wrote:Much like the elevator business, it has its ups and downs.

As with "ladies of the night".

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:59 pm

I'm 18 and for at least 12 years of my life we had dial up. 10-15 seconds is fast.

I remember playing Starcraft for an hour on Battle.Net and my mom would get angry because I was typing up the phone line.

All slow teaches is patience. Why? In a hurry or something?

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:43 pm

Yeah, I suppose broadband is still kind of a new thing. The internet (as we know it) is even pretty new. It was "the new thing" back when I was a young child. I'm 17 (18 in May) and come to think of it, I've been stuck with either dial-up, no internet, or no computer at all for the majority of my life.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:15 am

Yall complainers need to take some advice from this guy.
Warning: he says the f**k word a lot so if you don't want to let any vulgarity near your precious little ears, I suggest you either don't watch it or you harden the f**k up.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:10 am

daguuy wrote:Yall complainers need to take some advice from this guy.
Warning: he says the f**k word a lot so if you don't want to let any vulgarity near your precious little ears, I suggest you either don't watch it or you harden the f**k up.

...I think that's the best video I've ever been linked to. (One that I didn't find on my own.)

Negative_Creep · Post by **Negative_Creep** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:38 am

I've not noticed anything on my new lovely pc