Decrease in Transfer Speed

[Urban Ranger]

My brower has been having difficulties transferring pages from the OTF these past few days. It's taking aeons for a thread to finish rendering.

Has anybody else experienced this? Is the server slowing down for some reason?

[finbar]

It comes and go. Today, with a cable connection, it was downloading at 300 bytes/sec. That's when you know there's something wrong.

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[Alexander's Horse]

Yes, its the friggin UGO ads - AGAIN

[finbar]

But I've got the ads blocked with software.

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[Urban Ranger]

It was actually better yesterday than Monday. On Monday I was getting "Connection Refused" messages from UGO (a good thing ) and Apolyton (a bad thing ).


Perhaps somebody at Gamestats should take a look at the server to see if it needs work.
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Urban Ranger (edited August 16, 2000).]</font>

[finbar]

It fluctuates daily. Then, hourly. Then, by the minute, it seems.

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[Alexander's Horse]

The dreaded UGO ads definitely have something to do with it.

[Caesar]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Alexander's Horse on 08-17-2000 09:08 PM</font>
The dreaded UGO ads definitely have something to do with it.
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Its always the ads

[Urban Ranger]

Better banner ads than popups, I say

[Alexander's Horse]

I know it because I use one PC behind a firewall and one unprotected. The firewall machine has no probs with the UGO ads, the unprotected machine slows right down when they come on. Go figure?

[finbar]

So how come I can have a problem and I have the UGO stuff blocked? As do a number of others?

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[Urban Ranger]

I am having severe problems connecting to Apolyton today, with multiple time out errors even loading a thread index. Traceroute shows that UUNet is having major traffic congestions with >1000ms response time to some of their nodes. Terrible!

[Alexander's Horse]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by finbar on 08-17-2000 11:50 PM</font>
So how come I can have a problem and I have the UGO stuff blocked? As do a number of others?


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Well you have a mac, God knows what happens with your machine

[Legman]

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Alexander's Horse on 08-17-2000 09:50 PM</font>
I know it because I use one PC behind a firewall and one unprotected. The firewall machine has no probs with the UGO ads, the unprotected machine slows right down when they come on. Go figure?
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I experience the exact same thing. From behind the firewall at work: No slowdown. From my home computer: Unbelievably slow loading of threads.

I can't say whether it has to do with specific ads, but anyway, it's been like this for about a week now. Any thoughts from the admins as to the cause of this sudden change in transfer speed?

[DanQ]

It could quite easily be the result of a sudden summer traffic influx (and not just on ACS).

It should resolve itself within a few days.

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Dan; Apolyton CS