Very long page loading at first, then speeds up?

[HeavyDuty]

Paul -

I've been having a page loading problem here at TB for some time.

Each time I come to TB, it takes a very long time to load the first ten or so pages I visit, then it speeds up considerably. This is unique to TB - I regularly visit other Vb-based pages with no problems. I'm on dialup, XP Pro, IE 6 with automatic checking for updated versions of stored pages set.

Is there some kind of load on visit happening here, maybe for subscribed threads? I'm at a loss.

 

[paul]

I'm not sure what is causing your long load times. I'm sure the dialup doesn't help Are you doing something different when it all of a sudden speeds up? If you're 'getting new posts' this can be server-intensive and may take a few secs... but in general even under full traffic our server isn't near maxing out.

You might try doing a tracert to talkbass.com to see where any hiccups might be. Open up your command prompt in windows (accessories) and type:

tracert www.talkbass.com

If you do this while it's slow, and compare to to when TalkBass is fast, it may shed some light.

 

[HeavyDuty]

Thanks, Paul - I'll try that.

BTW, what am I looking for?

 

[paul]

There will be a list of numbered "hops", each one with a readout of the number of milliseconds it takes to get past it. Look for bigger numbers, like over 500ms, or any instances of asterisks (*). This means the data is having trouble getting past that leg in its journey

 

[HeavyDuty]

Thanks, Paul. I just looked now when things were crawling, and I was getting average times in excess of 4000 ms.

Any ideas on how to deal with this? Pour Red Bull into my PC, maybe?

 

[paul]

Take a look at where the 4000ms times are occuring - this might give you some clues. Also, you may want to copy/paste the tracert report in a complaint to your ISP. My only other suggestion would be to get broadband

 

[HeavyDuty]

Paul, if Broadband were available here, I'd have it!

 

[paul]

doh!