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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I've noticed this site has been much slower than usual...and pages sometimes timing out completely.
Is this happening to anyone else and does anyone know why?
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Location: Upper Left USA | In the last hour or so it was awful.
Sporatic lows and outs over the last week. |
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Location: NJ | Yeah.
I still contend it has t'do with the time of day . . . |
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Location: south east Michigan | My story agrees with Cliff.
Time of day matters.
Like right now. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Miles mentioned the site's Web Host is changing hands...I have no idea if that has anything to do with it... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's faster now. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | I noticed that too. |
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Location: closely held secret | You people have no idea what slow is. Try it from an internet cafe in Uganda... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | WASKEL!
Be thankful that they have the internet there :eek:
and I was so certain we had heard the last of you for at least a few weeks :D oh well..... |
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Location: NW NJ | I wouldn't have even guessed that there'd be an internet cafe in Uganda ... |
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Location: closely held secret | That's the point, Robbie. I'm not back...
Actually, there's 3 of them. They're all slow. They get there connection by wireless from the phone company. Kind of lik running an internet cafe (10-15 computers) off a DSL connection. Later. More to come. |
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Location: NW NJ | Originally posted by Waskel:
That's the point, Robbie. I'm not back...
Yeah, I realized that after I looked at the date! So how is it going over there - playing alot? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Its due to the Homeland Security server having to filter though our commentary and record IPI addresses for later reference. They do the bulk of their efforts during the window of opportunity when 80% of the DC offices click off of the "Drudge Report", commute for 2 hours and turn on reruns of "Friends".
It slows down again on Sunday and Tuesday evenings as the DC area tunes in to "West Wing" and "Commander in Chief".
Inside sources tell me that the Low-bidder Contract to perform these screens needs to take advantage of the line server resources during these times because the dial up from the Janitor closet is kind of slow.
M(I'm with the Gov'mint and I'm here to help you)Woody |
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Location: Southern California | So, that's why there's a black helicopter circling over your house... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Are all 3 of them in Starbucks? Leno told a joke the other night about a bomb scare in Starbucks. They had to evacuate 100 people and take them 3 doors down to the next Starbucks. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I like that!
I may use that throughout the day! |
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Location: North Idaho | The slow downs and speed ups seem to correlate with the 'posted time' for me.
edit: right now OFC is posting close to pacific daylight time. Sometimes it posts as much as 4 hours early.
edit: it's not using my computer time |
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Location: Southern California | I'm in CA, and my posts always seem to be four hours ahead of Pacific time... basically, the server is time stamping things at East Coast time, but with the server still set to Daylight Savings. |
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Location: North Idaho | dragonboy,
my screen shows your post as being 10:34am. Is yours the same? The IP address of location ovationfanclub is registered as Sanata Clara, CA. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Under your profile, Edit Preferences, there's this:
Time Adjustment
The current server time is: 02-02-2006 12:43 PM
Your computer time is: 02-02-2006 10:36 AM
For local times, adjust to: -2 hours
With this in place, the postings seem to match my timezone accordingly and I haven't noticed any jumping around. Perhaps they're gearing up a server that's based in another timezone? |
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Location: Southern California | Tim -
My post shows on my screen as being made at 2:34. It was around 10:30 local time when I posted.
By the way, this happens whether I'm at home or at work. |
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Location: Southern California | OK, I just tried DVD's suggestion. Let's see if it works. |
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Location: North Idaho | Thanks dvd,
So the posted time is supposedly adjusted from their time server (which is currently about 5 min fast to offical time). It's working now and posts are moving quickly. I believe last night when everything bogged, the times were off the four hours. I'll observe closely this evening if it slows down. |
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Location: Southern California | It worked... in fact, it looks like it converted my display to show everybody's post times in local time.
Cool.
Thanks, DVD! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Yeah I think it applies to all timestamps in the forums.
And you are right, tdeej, their clock is fast. Some sysadmin needs to spend a little time googling "NTP". (For you non-geeks, NTP is a protocol that computers use to sync time -- typically to Atomic time.) |
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Location: Midland, MI | I thought NTP was the company that had all five of their patents invalidated by the USPTO subsequent to the Blackberry lawsuit.
:eek:
(I actually know what NTP is...and how to write a valid /etc/ntp.conf file...how sad is that?) |
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Location: North Idaho | cruster, you in the UNIX world?
I also noticed if you log out all times revert back to the 4 hour or somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean time zone. Makes me think when things bog we have exceeded max allowable logon users and are forced to wait to post. So when the times are off, we are technically logged off. |
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