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Forums are extremely slow

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They went old school and brought out the USR Modem rack:

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48 56k modems of glory!
 
alkemyst said:
I personally think the maintenance is because no one is at the wheel of the ship.
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Which explains why it's often down on the weekends at night when the traffic is pretty high. No mods around? Forums go down. Seems like that would be easy to flag somewhere in the software.

I been getting random slow loading, reposts sometimes a few minutes apart and auto log outs for no reason since at least this topic was started on 10-15-2013. And it's not confined to OT, it's forum wide.
 
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What the hell is causing this slowness?

This is madness.

Web host? Forum software? Other? I could keep poking but then my post would be edited and I might not like the comments so I'll keep my trap shut, for now 😛
 
THese forums are insanely slow... on my Acer V5-131 laptop. Five minute page load times.

On my Foxconn AT-5570 NanoPC, load times are manageable. Ten second load times.

The laptop is wireless. The NanoPC is wired.

However, the laptop can still score 30Mbit/sec down and up on speedtest.net, at the same time ATF is hanging.

No other sites are slow like this.

It seemingly abruptly started around 11:30pm EST tonight, although it has happened other nights. It seems to happen at certain times late at night.

I don't quite understand it. It almost seems like my packets are getting routed differently, depending on whether or not it's the laptop or the HTPC.

I do have an IPv6 tunnel through HE.net, and both PCs score a 10/10 on test-ipv6.com.

Edit: I tried plugging in my laptop to my gigabit switch, where the HTPC is plugged in, and reloaded the page. It loaded in like 10-15 seconds. Very wierd.

If it were just wireless interference, wouldn't it affect all of the web sites that I browse on the laptop, including my Speedtest.net scores?

Here's a speedtest.comcast.net score, with the ethernet cable plugged in:
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Here's a score with the ethernet unplugged:
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Note that in order to edit my post to insert the img link, I had to plug the ethernet in and refresh the page. But the actual speedtest was done with the ethernet unplugged.

Edit: Just for the heck of it, I disabled IPv6 for the wireless NIC in this laptop, disconnected the ethernet cable, and disconnected from my wireless router. Then reconnected. Now the forums are fine. Go figure. Let me re-enable IPv6.

Seemingly, it was ok at first after re-enabling IPv6 and re-connecting, but then it hung again. So I tried changing the main MTU setting in Tomato to some lower number. And it seemed to work. Maybe placebo. Because I found under the IPv6 tunnel settings, another setting for "Tunnel MTU", and it was already lower than 1500. So I dunno.

RossMAN, you set up IPv6 too on Tomato didn't you? Try disabling IPv6 in Win7 on your wireless card.

What I don't get it, why does it work fine (With IPv6 enabled) when I am wired?

Edit: Here's another speedtest.comcast.net after changing my MTU:
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VirtualLarry said:
.Seemingly, it was ok at first after re-enabling IPv6 and re-connecting, but then it hung again. So I tried changing the main MTU setting in Tomato to some lower number. And it seemed to work. Maybe placebo. Because I found under the IPv6 tunnel settings, another setting for "Tunnel MTU", and it was already lower than 1500. So I dunno.
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AT's website and forums don't even support IPv6. So that shouldn't be causing any issues.

The only thing that uses IPv6 is the Yahoo API service. And that's just a javascript that can be cached client side.
 
ViRGE said:
AT's website and forums don't even support IPv6. So that shouldn't be causing any issues.

The only thing that uses IPv6 is the Yahoo API service. And that's just a javascript that can be cached client side.
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So why are the forums hideously slow then?
Why is OT in particular very slow?
 
Those of you that are having slowness try DISABLING SCRIPTS and see if its faster 🙂 (Probably be much better)
 
Well, it happened again tonight, started around 11:00pm-ish, got really bad by 11:30pm, pages were literally taking five minutes to load, if they even loaded.

Yet, on my wired HTPC, page loads were taking 10-15 seconds. A touch slow, but nothing like my laptop.

Yet, no other site on my laptop was slow, I was on skype, and speedtest.comcast.net showed my connection to be 40/40, with 25ms ping.
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So why is it, this is the only site that is slow, but only on my laptop when wireless, and yet my wireless internet is NOT slow. VERY puzzling.

Oh, I was on skype the whole time, no pixelation, no dropped calls, no issues whatsoever.
 
I was having problems last week, and I cleared out my anandtech.com cookies and restarted Firefox. Seems to have worked. Didn't have issues with any other sites, and when I pulled up the site in Safari then it worked fine.... slow, but fine.
 
Took 40 seconds to load this page. I see a bazillion redirects at the bottom of my browser window and some just hang.

Here are my internet connection speeds.
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I pretty much don't click into many threads anymore in favor of another forum because it's gotten so slow. Who wants to wait even 3 seconds for a page to change when on broadband?

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Ive noticed also the last couple weeks this forum has become super slow at loading pages. Usually notice it when there is 9k user online. I noticed a huge amount of guest compared to registered users.
 
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