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[WagonMaster]

Is it just me or has anyone else been having great problems with browsing the forums and downloading files lately?

Now, admittedly, I'm on a dial-up connection, so I'm used to things being slow. But this problem is not speed, it's the reliability of the connection with the forum's server/host.

For example, despite not having any serious problems in the past with downloading large (e.g. 800KB) files from the forums, I've been unable to download the latest release candidate of 'IR.exe'. This has gone on for many days now. The download just dies after some random amount of data downloaded.

In fact, even basic browsing of the forum site has been incredibly unreliable lately. I often cannot view a simple thread without having my browser (Firefox) report "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.", forcing me to reload the page at least once and sometimes multiple times! Even when I limit the number of pages loading simultaneously to just 1 connection to the host, it still seems very unreliable.

This JP1 forum is the only site which seems to be exhibiting this behavior (well, besides the Radio Shack website, which has always had a similar issue), so I'm assuming there's nothing wrong on my end.

Anyone else experiencing such problems?

And, while I'm on the topic, is there any way to make the file downloads work with an interrupted retrieval? In other words, I frequently use 'wget -c filename' to fetch a file (under Linux, but Windows has a 'wget' utility too). Unfortunately, if the file transfer is interrupted (which it often is, as described above), I cannot resume the file transfer from the point it left off (which is the point of the '-c' [continue] option). This works fine on most sites, but I assume the phpBB stuff is somehow breaking this. Any ideas on a way to improve that?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.....

Regards,
Bill

[gentzel]

I have definitely noticed some issues as well, including PHP errors from the BB software.

[mathdon]

In the past few days I've also had reliability problems. I always begin by checking "View posts since last visit", but I've had a number of occasions lately where I've clicked on the website, the browser (IE7) has started to load, suddenly said the load is completed, but nothing appears. I try again, find there are no posts since my last visit, but the last visit is timed to be just one minute ago. So a connection was made the first time, but apparently aborted without me doing anything. Very annoying.
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Graham

[ElizabethD]

Yesterday the site was down.
Over the past several days initial connection takes over a minute, uploading files takes over a minute (today 2min28sec), navigating from one post to another takes over 30sec. All very inconvenient.

The speed can vary. There are moments when everything is instantenous, but those are rare indeed. I suspect the servers are busy.

No dialup here, I got FIOS. Tracert sometimes shows a longish last hop delay, but I think the delays are within the servers running the database.

EDIT: It took 1m30sec to post this message, 58sec to view and start writing this edit timing information.
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Liz
Tweeking 8910, HTPro/9811, C7-7800, 6131o, 6131n, AtlasOCAP-1056B01, RCA-RCRP05B and enjoying the ride

[WagonMaster]

[vickyg2003]

[The Robman]

All these issues are because of the crap ISP that I'm using, but it's not a simple task to move this site over to my godaddy server because of the forum and it's database and the file section.

But once I do get around to moving the site to my other server, the performance will be GREATLY improved.
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Rob
www.hifi-remote.com
Please don't PM me with remote questions, post them in the forums so all the experts can help!

[WagonMaster]