Is there a dam in the Creek? (Resolved)

[Ron Jones near Indy]

SMC is running very slowly for me. It may run normally for a few clicks and then the next click may take 2 minutes or more to load. I am running XP and the latest upgrade of Firefox. I feel I must be a loner on this problem or others would have brought it up by now. Other sites seem to operate normally. Any suggestions?

[Bruce Page]

I haven't had any slowdowns here.

[Lance Norris]

SMC is running very slowly for me. It may run normally for a few clicks and then the next click may take 2 minutes or more to load. I am running XP and the latest upgrade of Firefox. I feel I must be a loner on this problem or others would have brought it up by now. Other sites seem to operate normally. Any suggestions?

I have the same exact problem. I posted this last week and everyone said things were fine. I defragged, cleared cookies, temporary internet files, tried running with add ons disabled, shut off my phishing filter, nothing helps. I guess its nice to see Im not the only one. Whats going on?

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Everything is working well here in Idaho.....

and I'm on cable so it's relatively fast!

[Nancy Laird]

It may be Firefox - I've heard that sometimes it decides to take a rest.

[Ron Jones near Indy]

I'm thinking some issue with Firefox. I tried AOL (I know, I know) and everything seems fine. I also have cable so I'm used to speed.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Don't tell anyone...I"m running IE version 6 IIRC...

[Lance Norris]

I dont think its Firefox. Im not running it and the Creek is horribly SLOW for me and has been for several weeks. Ive recently been linking images through Photobucket instead of uploading them here. Could this be causing it? Im on a cable system and everything else is lightning fast. When I get here, its like dial-up. Ugh

[Keith Outten]

Ron,

Well its not our server load, this morning with 194 people online our server load is less than 0.8% of capacity. With over 600 people we rarely see loads in excess of 6%. Uploading your pictures isn't a problem and won't be for a very long time.

Three issues come to mind, the first being a slowdown or excessive trafic somewhere between you and The Creek. The second issue may be the advertisements that are not hosted on our server but this is a rare event that I have only noticed a couple of times. The third is traffic in your local area if you are using a cable modem, everyone in your neighborhood shares the bandwidth on your leg of the cable network and you may have some heavy users on your node.

I visit The Creek every day at lunch from Christopher Newport University. When classes are in session and students are downloading movies and music files the network slows to a crawl. During the summer, Christmas and Spring breaks the speed is lightning fast with huge pipes and no users online at the University except for the staff.

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[Rich Engelhardt]

Hello,
I'm running IE 7, Opera and Firefox on XP Media- as well as IE 6 and IE7 in virtual machines - Windows 2003 server and Windows XP Pro.
SMC has been extremely slow to the point of timing out on everything.

I also can terminal server into several machines in different locations here in NE Ohio - all with different upstream providers - and launch IE6 or IE7 from them.

The problem is definatly with the upstream providers, not the local machine and/or browser used. It's also dependant on the time of access.
SMC loads ok - not great - but ok - on my home systems between 2:00am and 6:00am. The evening hours are by far the worst.

Last evening at ~ 7:00pm, I couldn't get SMC to load on my home system.
I termserved into a system ~ 15 miles away, which has a T-1 connection, and SMC loaded fine.

A tracert shows a slowdown for me at the point Roadrunner makes the jump in Columbus, and again, when Roadrunner jumps to Cox.

Ping times, regardless of time of day, are consistant at the mid 50'ish ms.

To me it looks like one or more core routers is all boogered up and not passing higher protocols (HTTP - the "stuff" of the WWW).

Since I have remote access to a couple of systems on the Roadrunner fabric, I'll jump into one or two and see how SMC loads and run a tracert to see if the slowdown is the same.

For the time being, I believe you can rule out SMC and/or the ads as being the problem.

HTH.

[Bruce Page]

Don't tell anyone...I"m running IE version 6 IIRC...

Same here.

[Randy Degen]

I have also been having trouble I'm using roadrunner its been running slow for about 3 weeks . Randy

[Andy Hoyt]

Roadrunner and Firefox here. Fast enough and no complaints.