AO Running Very Slow

For some time now I have been experiencing very slow reactions from the AO site. I thought it might just be my particular connection or something in my set up that was causing this, but it is not.

I have a 6 meg cable connection and I tried a 1.5 meg DSL connection of a friend. They both respond to AO as if I was on dial up. Perhaps even slower than dial up.

When this first started, it was intermittent ......or at least not all the time. But lately, it seems to be continuous. Very few times will a page load in a timely fashion. And some times, a page load will take an uncommonly long time, almost to the point of a time out.

What is causing this.....anyone know?

Hi Mox~

No idea, but I have noticed that recently as well (2.2 ADSL) I had been putting it down to my IP lot messing with the kit?

Haven't really studied it, is there any variation in the time of day when it happens?

:)

its slow for me to and im on cable internet its 6:30 pm tues in texas

Ive noticed the same thing, ive stayed away for a while because it was rather annoying me, I thought it may be my connection but obviously it isnt!

Ok that's a bit exaggeratted in my opinion, it's slow, not 56k slow..

Johnno,
It seems to happen at anytime from in the middle of the night to in the afternoon. Sometimes it is worse in the early morning, but it seems to be getting worse all the time.

Raion, it is worse than just 56k.....it is like downloading a 5 meg file on a slow 56k line.

Hey Hey,

I've been noticing this lately... I've been wondering if it's due to Spybot and it's Immunize function... What browser is everyone using?

It's usually decent when I'm in firefox... and goes really slow in IE.. I'm thinking maybe the DB is getting really large because it's almost like it's having a hard time pulling out the dynamic content (posts for example)... At least in firefox that's what I see... in I it sits for a bit... and I always get messages about BAD URL Double Click blocked.. which leads me to believe it's related to SpyBot.

Peace,
HT

only times I have problems with AO, I find a few other sites have the same issues..
the only thing I have traced it down to is a DNS problem with my ISP..

you could try setting the IP of AO in your hosts file.. or
try setting a few alternate DNS servers into your network settings..

dont have too much troubles at the moment.. but my ip is French today..

I have noticed slowdowns in the past, but to be quite honest, I've not experienced this in a long time. I'm running Firefox 1.5 and everything seems to be fine on my front.... This is from both my corporate network during the day and my home connection at night...

i haven't suffered from this so called slow-ness of the site as of yet..
usually use Firefox, or Konquerer.

I'd say maybe spybot has got something to do with it, cause of all the ads on the site trying to place cookies maybe clear your cache out check other settings..

f2b

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and I always get messages about BAD URL Double Click blocked..

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I've been getting this up, thought it was something I'D done :)
problem happens when I'm on XPPro IE6 AND Fedora Core 3 Firefox ????

find it happens mainly in the evening [GMT] and it DOES time out on my set ups .... :(

I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 and up until recently it has become slower, I put it down to Java, as when I go to post for the first time, the java console opens up and scrolls through it's process and then I can post. So I have been assuming all along that it has something to do with java.....??

Usually the time I find the slowest though here on Atlantic Time is 5pm, (4pm in New York).

I haven't found any slowness. Previously I have found that certain ads caused problems and found that AdBlock on Firefox fixed this.

For those that find it slow, do you still see the ads?

I only feel the slowness while under Ie, while using the Proxomitron, then once i close them both up and just use Netscape i don't really notice the sluggishness..

this is very interesting, i wonder what could be doing this..

I use this site for my host file

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

and have not noticed any slowness here or at home.

IE 6 W2K @home XP @work

I use Firefox and the proxomitron. I don't see any adds and untill this morning the site was doing pretty good, but then in the last hour it has gotten extreamly slow.

Edit> I just turned off the Proxomitron and it didn't make any difference, except I now see all the adds.

hmmm that was interesting, I didn't see any ads, so figured my Firefox adblocker was doing just fine, but I thought well, why not disable the adblocker and have another look..........so I go and do this, only to find out It had never been on in the first place, so now I'm wandering what are these ad's supposed to look like.......in the javascript console, it shows a lot of errors OAS_RICH is not defined and all related to AO. Also MM_findObj("ColorUsed 1")

So I am disabling Java and javascript to see if there are any differences.........

Okay that's weird, I did that and posted and now i am in edit mode and low and behold I can see the ad, but I have adblocker enabled, and java and javascript disabled....... Can't use the emoticons, in this state either....

Okay I enabled adblocker and javascript and now the ad is gone. Does seem a little faster at refreshing the pages then earlier.

Gremlins...... :p

Opera 8.51 - fastest browser on Earth.
Linux 2.6.14.3 + fluxbox 0.9.12 - fastest window manager on Earth
AMD64 3400+ - one mean ass processor
Verizon Fiber Optics - fastest commercial highspeed internet connection

I agree, AO has been running a bit slow, lately.

/me doesn't notice anything and I've experimented with I.E, Firefox w/ no ad-blocker, and Firefox w/ ad-blocker.

Running Privoxy and Firefox. Noticed slowdown for a few days, but it seems much better today.

- Xierox

normally ads in signature too makes slow to open a thread.

so signature must contain only text.

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Originally posted here by xierox
Running Privoxy and Firefox. Noticed slowdown for a few days, but it seems much better today.

- Xierox

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You use Tor aswell as Privoxy, right?

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Originally posted here by [WebCarnage]
You use Tor aswell as Privoxy, right?

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No. Just Privoxy.

- X

I'm finding it to be 'service as usual today' ????

we been under more than the usual amount of spam / DoS / general day to day rubbish ?

Its 6:09 am pacific time zone (-8) and the site is extreamly slow. I click on a thread and it will sit there for almost 20 seconds before it starts to move and then take anouther 10 seconds to load the new page.

Earlier (about 2-3 hours) it was doing great, almost like it used to be a couple of years ago.

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Originally posted here by moxnix
Its 6:09 am pacific time zone (-8) and the site is extreamly slow. I click on a thread and it will sit there for almost 20 seconds before it starts to move and then take anouther 10 seconds to load the new page.

Earlier (about 2-3 hours) it was doing great, almost like it used to be a couple of years ago.

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Yup same here. sitting on a T-1 takes minutes to get to AO and almost a minute to open a thread? Busy work for the admins today.

Edit: 65 sec to post 35 sec to edit.

Anyone know what the spellcheck applet is?

Yeah.. this ****'s gettin slow for me too.


I'm running Firefox on a clean system with no proxies. Oh yeah... 3 meg cable.