has there been some maintenance work done to this site in the last few days?  every time i open autonerdz it takes an eternity.  this includes every time a post is opened.  

i thought it was on my end, but no other site is acting the same way.

I hve been experiencing the same thing since last night, glad to hear I'm not alone as that clears my end too (only the nerdz forum is affected for me) be it that I am opening a thread or trying to download a psd file the speed it about 28.8K dial up at best, at one ppoint I was downloading at 367 bytes per second, not kilo bytes or mega bytes, just bytes..... :o

I wonder if we are experiencing a "denial of service" attack from the nerdz haters!  [smiley=jawdrop.gif]  (LMAO)  Little do they know Tom is scoping his internet connection to identify the users doing it.....  (LMAO)  :D

Hope it's just a small issue like the server got overloaded or needs a reboot or something, but if it needs a reboot then we'll be without the forum for a while!  What will Larry do all night then? ::)  (LMAO)

did a quick 30 hop tracert to see where it's dropping off, there are two unknown hubs in the midwest that are giving me trouble but as soon as I get routed to the west coast and try to leave the california area I time out for 18 hubs and my trace cuts out as I hit my 30 hhops, sounds like someone is having an internet outage somewhere and it is not the server.  This would be proven if people that live closer that use a different chain of hubs to get there have a connection that works fine.

Hope it gets fixed soon!

NathanBirch wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 8:21pm:

What will Larry do all night then?

oh well, there's always porn and politics  ;D.  

thanks for the heads up.  now i just gotta hop on google to figure out what you're talking about  ;D.  tracert, you say?  ;)

Man this is still slow, well at least I know it not just me, I was worry it was my computer.

crackerclicker wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 9:44pm:

tracert, you say?

It's a function of DOS, if you open a command prompt window in XP or Vista or windows 7 and type tracert www.autonerds.com ii will trace your connection up to 30 hubs and give you the response time it takes for that hub to get data to you.  I'ts kinda like pinging a server but your doing it on a chain of em.  


crackerclicker wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 9:44pm:

oh well, there's always porn and politics

Yes, yes there is.....

The issue seems to be fixed as i have full speed this morning, off to work I go!
Nathan.

I didn't notice any issues here.  Glad it's working again though.  Sounds like it was a cyberspace traffic jam   :(

NathanBirch wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 8:42pm:

sounds like someone is having an internet outage somewhere and it is not the server.

This knocked me out last weekend

Carjacking at bottom of list

http://www.mississauga.com/searchresult?AssetType=Image&q=the%20news&r=all:1&sortby=ReleaseTimestamp&r=category:%22%2fNews%22

Could not go on Larrys suggested sites either. >:(

Mick

Mick wrote on Mar 18^th, 2011 at 7:04am:

Carjacking at bottom of list

is that a car buried under that brush?!!!


Mick wrote on Mar 18^th, 2011 at 7:04am:

Could not go on Larrys suggested sites either

LOL!!


NathanBirch wrote on Mar 18^th, 2011 at 4:27am:

The issue seems to be fixed as i have full speed this morning, off to work I go!

yep, all fixed now  :).

So, For I what I'm reading, you guys dont have any issues anymore, and I'm still expiriencing the problem.
Any other page that I open works okay.
Could it be this area?  If it was my computer it would be slow with every website right?  :(   Im gonna try with my desktop to see if there is any difference.

my problem returned, dang.......

tracert shows different hubs not responding (one more unkown in the midwest) and the same problem as soon as I get to the west coast.  Seems the issue is only affecting those east of say texas?  Oh well, guess I'll go though all the tutorial movies while I wait for this to be fixed.....

Nathan.

Quick question for all those affected, who is your ISP?  I can get to the site in slow motion on my old blackberry just like normal but using my 18MBPS DSL line through AT&T I get no where fast on the site, any one else have AT&T and have this problem? Or do we have more than one ISP affected.

I pay alot of dang good money for that speed and I'd like to use it as I please you know?  LOL

Nathan.

I have AT&T, but what I dont understand is why its only the Nerdz site everything else seems to be fine.  :(

yep, it has returned  :(.  i've got at&t also.

Still no issues here.  Is this just viewing the forums or other parts of the site too?

I'll contact my host and see if they have any ideas.

Loading the site, viewing threads and trying to download anything from the site is horrible, so basically trying to do anything I guess.  Hope that guy has some ideas!

Thanks Tom!

Nathan.

Tom Roberts wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 4:37pm:

Is this just viewing the forums or other parts of the site too?

so far just the forums for me.  actually spent time last night checking out the rest of the site for a change  :).

on an unrelated topic, when do you expect to see those colored leads?  i see some have a detachable ground.  very clever  8-).

NathanBirch wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 5:36pm:

Loading the site, viewing threads and trying to download anything from the site is horrible, so basically trying to do anything I guess.  Hope that guy has some ideas! Thanks Tom! Nathan.

It worked for a while but now its slowing down again, also I just niticed that you guy's  post counts dont move Nathanbirch shows 141 and it doesnt change. I dont know if its relevant.
For a while I was able to navigate and also download a file.............weird

Quote:

on an unrelated topic, when do you expect to see those colored leads?

I heard a rumor that we might have some in this week   ;)

Try this when the forums seem unresponsive....Instead of clicking on a topic once to view, try a double ckick and see if that helps at all.

Tom Roberts wrote on Mar 20^th, 2011 at 7:58am:

Try this when the forums seem unresponsive

Well this is the wierd thing, it comes and goes, today it seems fine but last night when I got home from work I tried to view a thread and gave up after it hadn't loaded after waiting 2 min.

The dropsite is not affected, nor is any other site, this is just plain weird.....


Erik_1940 wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 11:48pm:

I just niticed that you guy'spost counts dont move Nathanbirch shows 141 and it doesnt change

And whats up with that?  I never pay attention to my number of posts but I will after I post this, if it stays at 141 then maybe the server just doesn't like me  ;D

Oh well, things always end up working out in the end.....

Got hold of someone at web hosting.  Obviously it is not an issue with the servers.  However, this was a possibility:

Joan R.: We do have issue before about compatibility between ATT connection and Earthlink server, but as of now there is no issues posted.

Anyway, they will look into it.

Thanks for your patience.  These things do get worked out.

Tom Roberts wrote on Mar 20^th, 2011 at 4:24pm:

compatibility between ATT connection and Earthlink server

That makes perfect sense that there would be an issue between competing companys.  And no problem for the patience, the forum is worth it! 8-)

Indeed the forum is worth it.
Right now is workng perfectly  :)