[sbtm]

Hi everyone,

I am starting to have some serious issues when reading through forums. Not pixalo but others. Others such as http://www.mercedesforum.com/ & Benzworld.org - Mercedes Benz Discussion Forum

What happens is on both these forums, the headers or titles is displayed and the rest of the page takes about 5 minutes to draw. The benzworld is a little quicker than mercedesforum by about 5 minutes

Don't really know what's up with that. I have tried both these forum from computer at work and they are just fine. I mean normal speed. I have tried using another pc at the house connected to a second port on the wireless router and that too has the same problem. Then I tried connecting a laptop wirelessly with Vista on and the same problem

I can't figure it out. Anyone has any pointers where to look? I have deleted all the cookies but nothing helped.

*just thinking out loud* since 3 computers at home are having the same issues, then it must be something wrong with the wireless router (linksys) cause outside the house, the forums are ok

[Chris H]

Are you by any chance on Cable and Wireless cable broadband ?

[sbtm]

ADSL to the house and then have a wireless router with 4-ports

[Chris H]

I take it you've done all the usual things and reset your modem and pc, tryed turning off your phishing filters etc.

I have recently had a problem with Nortons phishing filter spending ages testing sites, drove me bonkers

[Angela]

I don't know who hosts those forums but if it's ProBoards they did some work on them a few days ago and I was experiencing similar problems to you on another forum I use.

All I had to do was clear my cache files and everything was fine again.

[silkstone]

^^^^ That sounds like the best idea. If you're not getting problems with any other sites, it doesn't sound like a modem fault. In Firefox, Tools > Clear Private Data, and then either Tools or Edit (depending on your OS) > Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and clear out all of them or at least the ones for the sites affected.

[sbtm]

I have cleared everything possible... cookies, cache and private data also. I really don't *think* that its a pc issue as I have tried 3 different ones.

Also, I did try disabling anti-phishing and scanners that I have. I even disabled the whole program. BTW, I have NOD32

[Steve]

Have you tried running a traceroute to the site to see where the problem lies?

Open a command prompt and type in tracert' and the website url then hit return...

for pixalo it would be

tracert www.pixalo.com

Your computer will do a full trace from your location to the server running the website and list in milliseconds the time each 'hop' takes. If any of them take a long time that will tell you where the problem lies along the route.

[sbtm]

ok here is the log for www.pixalo.com & www.mercedesforum.com

>tracert www.pixalo.com

Tracing route to pixalo.com [66.187.96.132]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms 3 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 15 ms 15 ms 16 ms as22-123.omantel.net.om [212.72.16.250]
3 14 ms 16 ms 15 ms as22-122.omantel.net.om [212.72.16.249]
4 16 ms 18 ms 17 ms 82.178.250.34
5 17 ms 17 ms 18 ms 82.178.250.113
6 17 ms 15 ms 16 ms 82.178.250.114
7 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms 82.178.32.10
8 217 ms 217 ms 219 ms pos3-2.ar03.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.13.133]
9 218 ms 216 ms 218 ms 63-218-12-234.pccwglobal.net [63.218.12.234]
10 216 ms 216 ms 214 ms te1-4.1102.401ar4.LON3.gblx.net [64.212.16.225]

11 223 ms 221 ms 221 ms 64.209.110.30
12 220 ms 220 ms 219 ms 208.116.63.229
13 220 ms 220 ms 225 ms edge1-100del.fbyne.com [65.98.0.78]
14 223 ms 223 ms 228 ms 208.116.32.202
15 223 ms 221 ms 221 ms s1.i-spice.net [66.187.96.132]

Trace complete.

-------------------------

>tracert www.mercedesforum.com

Tracing route to www.mercedesforum.com [67.201.16.14]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms as22-123.omantel.net.om [212.72.16.250]
3 16 ms 15 ms 14 ms as22-122.omantel.net.om [212.72.16.249]
4 16 ms 17 ms 18 ms 82.178.250.34
5 17 ms 17 ms 19 ms 82.178.250.113
6 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms 82.178.250.114
7 18 ms 17 ms 15 ms 82.178.32.10
8 214 ms 216 ms 216 ms pos3-2.ar03.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.13.133]
9 221 ms 216 ms 220 ms 63-218-12-234.pccwglobal.net [63.218.12.234]
10 220 ms 218 ms 237 ms linx.ge1-0.cr01.lhr01.mzima.net [195.66.225.15]

11 225 ms 233 ms 232 ms eos1-0.cr01.lga02.mzima.net [216.193.255.45]
12 235 ms 230 ms 234 ms xe6-1.cr01.lga03.mzima.net [216.193.255.250]
13 233 ms 225 ms 231 ms xe2-0.cr02.lga01.mzima.net [216.193.255.241]
14 236 ms 231 ms 235 ms eos0-18.cr01.iad01.mzima.net [216.193.255.133]
15 297 ms 290 ms 304 ms eos2-25.cr01.lax02.mzima.net [216.193.255.129]
16 288 ms 289 ms 304 ms xe1-0.cr01.lax01.mzima.net [64.235.224.181]
17 297 ms 290 ms 303 ms xe0-7.cr02.lax06.mzima.net [216.193.255.66]
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

***********************************************

I think we do have a problem on www.mercedesforum.com but don't know what

Care to analyze?

[AQ]

Originally Posted by Steve

Have you tried running a traceroute to the site to see where the problem lies?

Open a command prompt and type in tracert' and the website url then hit return...

for pixalo it would be

tracert www.pixalo.com

Y

A quick question. When i tried this the trace worked OK but the DOS window disapeared as soon as it finished. How do you get it stay visible so that you can read it.

[Steve]

Its definitely an internet routing problem then and not something with your personal equipment. It may be due to your ISP or the internet routing in general.

You should drop the forum admins a PM with the above details so that their server guys can assess the situation and see about getting their DNS servers altered.

Also it may be possible for you to re-route your connection to them by using a different DNS service other than your ISP. Give OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster Internet a try, its free and far more reliable than your ISP is ever likely to be. Its what I use all the time.

Hope that helps

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Anthraquinone

A quick question. When i tried this the trace worked OK but the DOS window disapeared as soon as it finished. How do you get it stay visible so that you can read it.

If you are running it the cmd window it should not close once its complete.

On windows it can be found via START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>Command Prompt

[sbtm]

Originally Posted by Steve

Also it may be possible for you to re-route your connection to them by using a different DNS service other than your ISP. Give OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster Internet a try, its free and far more reliable than your ISP is ever likely to be. Its what I use all the time.

Steve, am using OpenDNS right now and its not helping either@

[Steve]

Originally Posted by sbtm

Steve, am using OpenDNS right now and its not helping either@

I've just done a tracert from my location here and got virtually identical results with it timing out from hop 16 onwards. Basically there is nothing you can do but be re-assured the issue is not at your end.


Tracing route to www.mercedesforum.com [67.201.16.14]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 44 ms 44 ms 46 ms 217.0.69.166
4 51 ms 51 ms 50 ms f-ea5.F.DE.net.DTAG.DE [62.154.16.165]
5 52 ms 52 ms 52 ms te-4-4.car2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.68.110.253]

6 64 ms 56 ms 69 ms ae-31-53.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.68.118.94
]
7 69 ms 72 ms 72 ms ae-2.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.132.141]
8 144 ms * 146 ms ae-41.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.137.50]

9 142 ms 141 ms 145 ms ae-92-92.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
58]
10 153 ms 144 ms 141 ms ae-94-94.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
89]
11 223 ms 216 ms 217 ms ae-4.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.132.81]
12 223 ms 216 ms 216 ms ae-93-93.csw4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.137.4
6]
13 212 ms 213 ms 211 ms ae-4-99.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.20.20
1]
14 222 ms 215 ms 219 ms xe2-0.cr01.lax01.mzima.net [4.71.136.2]
15 221 ms 216 ms 216 ms xe0-0.cr01.lax06.mzima.net [216.193.255.98]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.