Board controls

[Pierce8468]

This may sound like a weird question, but this just seems strange to me. When I log on to the site fom home, it takes forever for the pages to load. I am using DSL, but they load as if I where on dial up. Now when I am at work, wich also has Dsl the pages load faster. I only have the slow load with this site, and no other when I am home. So my question is are there some controls I need to change to have the board load faster? I know this sounds kind of retarded, but you never know with computers, and I cant think of any other reason.

[GRoPA]

It's the Government. You need to be worried.

Just kidding. No idea.

[danp]

Actually this site loads very slow for me when I am at work. In my case it is not my internet connection or PAFOA's internet connection it's the COGENT network being really really slow in between.

I'm not sure if that's the case on your end though.

If you are comfortable using the command line on your computer open it up and type:

tracert www.pafoa.org

And paste the results back here. If you have no idea what I am talking about then just ignore me.

Not sure what else I can do to help you on that one though.

[LorDiego01]

Get cable internet. Mine is so fast the forums load a split of a second before I actually click on the link.

[Pierce8468]

Yes Danp I have no idea what you just said. I suppose I will just deal with the slowness. Hey it sure beats a 3 day wait period! LOL

[LorDiego01]

Yes Danp I have no idea what you just said. I suppose I will just deal with the slowness. Hey it sure beats a 3 day wait period! LOL

Hit the START button, click on RUN

type CMD and once that windows opens, type the command Danp gave you.

[doug]

PAFOA's website is located at one the premier hosting facilities in the USA, ServerCentral Network. They have physical links to most major Internet service providers, usually 10gigE. A complete list can be seen at ServerCentral's FixedOrbit Page. Consider each of those links is a MINIMUM of 2GBps, you can quickly see the overall capacity of ServerCentral, and realize any speed issues are not caused by any bottlenecks at the hosting ISP.

As Dan mentioned, unless your ISP is directly connected to ServerCentral's network (ie, is on that fixedorbit list), then your connection must traverse third party networks in order to complete your requests. Sometimes these third party networks suck bigtime, and that will drastically impact performance. Which third party network you traverse is determined largely by your ISP's upstream providers preference.

One way to see your connection path is to use the tool traceroute. It was created to help troubleshoot network problems such as this.

[Pierce8468]

Hit the START button, click on RUN

type CMD and once that windows opens, type the command Danp gave you.

I did what you said to do, and it appeared to do something. I suppose it ran the trace that doug reffered too, but I was not sure what to do afterward. Should that have fixed the speed problem automaticly?

[Torch]

Pretty sure it was just supposed to indicate where the hang up is at based on the time reported back or a timeout.

You'd right click in the box after it complted and select all, then press CTRL+C to copy it all.

Then make a new post here and CTRL+V to paste the text from the command line into the post.

My trace was going well until everything past 15 timed out. =(

Site works fine for me though.

[Pierce8468]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\admin>tracertwww.pafoa.org
'tracertwww.pafoa.org' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Documents and Settings\admin>tracert www.pafoa.org

Tracing route to www.pafoa.org [216.246.34.84]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 32 ms 34 ms 34 ms 66.16.170.1
2 33 ms 34 ms 34 ms 64.83.67.33
3 36 ms 34 ms 35 ms g0-8.na24.b003003-1.phl01.atlas.cogentco.com [38
.99.220.161]
4 37 ms 34 ms 34 ms g12-2-3835.core01.phl01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.2
8.67.65]
5 35 ms 34 ms 37 ms p5-0.core02.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.1]

6 43 ms 35 ms 34 ms p5-0.core02.jfk01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.17
0]
7 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms p1-0.core01.ewr02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.1
70]
8 35 ms 38 ms 35 ms ge3-2.ar1.ewr1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.94.29]
9 37 ms 35 ms 36 ms tge1-1.ar1.nyc3.us.nlayer.net [69.31.95.158]
10 41 ms 35 ms 36 ms ae2.cr1.nyc3.us.nlayer.net [69.31.95.129]
11 58 ms 59 ms 58 ms so-2-1-0.cr1.ord1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.106]

12 58 ms 60 ms 58 ms unknown.ord.scnet.net [216.246.88.153]
13 58 ms 59 ms 60 ms po4.ar1.ord1.us.scnet.net [216.246.50.2]
14 62 ms 60 ms 58 ms g0-1.aggr411.ord1.us.scnet.net [216.246.94.118]

15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * *

thanks for all of the help!!!! This is the chinese that was shown on my comp