Does Ausfish seem slow to load lately?

[keen_as_mustard]

Is it just me or does it seem the speed of pages loading from Ausfish has slowed over the last few weeks? I have noticed the site has gone through a number of updates recently - has this caused this?

I have broadband at home and ISDN at work, both macs and PC's and it seems similar on all of them? I have become a bit impatient since having broadband, but I am waiting up to a minute for some pages to load, especially at night - it never used to be like that. Maybe there are too many users?

Can anyone please confirm if they have noticed similar results?

Marty

[Heath]

Yeah same here. Sites been unusable for me a lot lately.

[Panda]

ssssllllllooooowwwww!

[BrandonH]

Yeah I have noticed a difference in the last couple of weeks, been close to a minute for me on some pages. middle of the day at work dosn't seam to be too bad though

Brandon.

[2DKnBJ]

Having the same problem.But in saying that Steve has been doing a fair bit of work on the sight of late even last night the sight was meant to be out of action around 9 pm but Steve put this off due to the amount of members logged on at this time.Maybe we have to be patient until He finishes doing whatever He is doing.Afterall it will only make this site better than it allready is.
Jeez he has his work cut out for himself
Cheers Dazza

[imported_admin]

There is a very heavy load around 7 till 10pm, sometimes over 200 people on the chat board alone, let alone the rest of the site. The chatboard script uses a lot of resources and the load at night is very high. Another server upgrade is being arranged but it all takes time.

I have also noticed today that any sites from overseas were very slow. I just did a trace route and found that Bigpond is routing through Brisbane - Sydney - New Zealand and then to the USA. Seems to be a slight deley between Sydney and NZ but a huge delay beween NZ and USA.

As my server is in the USA it is not helping things.

Here is a copy of some of the trace

| Hop | % Loss | IP Address | Node Name | Location | Timezone | ms | Graph | Network |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 4 | | 139.130.126.5 | GigEth3-2.woo4.Brisbane.telstra.net | Brisbane, Australia | +10.0 | 11 | x | 139.130.126.0 |

| 5 | | 203.50.51.129 | GigabitEthernet6-0.woo-core1.Brisbane.telstra.net | Brisbane, Australia | +10.0 | 36 | x---- | Telstra Internet |

| 6 | | 203.50.6.221 | - | ?Canberra, Australia | +10.0 | 23 | x | Telstra Internet |

| 7 | | 203.50.20.22 | TenGigabitEthernet9-2.ken12.Sydney.telstra.net | Sydney, Australia | +10.0 | 20 | x | Telstra Internet |

| 8 | | 139.130.1.194 | sydconn.lnk.telstra.net | - | | 21 | x | 139.130.1.0 |

| 9 | | 202.10.4.11 | so-3-0-3.cre1.syd.connect.com.au | Sydney, Australia | +10.0 | 22 | x | Tyco International |

| 10 | | 202.10.4.100 | so-1-0-0.bdr5.hay.connect.com.au | - | | 20 | x- | connect.com.au P/L |

| 11 | | 203.96.117.69 | g2-4.sybr2.global-gateway.net.nz | - | | 32 | x- | NZGate Aggregate Networks |
| 12 | 100 | | | | | | | |
| 13 | 100 | | | | | | | |
| 14 | 100 | | | | | | | |
| 15 | | 64.127.97.90 | core-02.ge-4-6.sfo1.netoptex.com | | | 443 | x- | 64.127.97.0 |


If anyone on other ISP's can do a tracert it would be interesting to see the results.

[oscar22]

slow on ADSL all day long.

If it is a website it is international one would hope.

[imported_admin]

If it is a website it is international one would hope.

Alex, not sure what you mean by that.

The website is hosted in the USA, http://www.365main.com/ , and of late there is a fair delay of late just getting to NZ and then a huge delay getting to the USA. Just depending where Bigpond decides to route through at the time.

Just did a tracert on Ebay.com.au and tonight am being routed through Brisbane - Sydnet - Hong Kong - USA LA and then finally USA San Jose. With 40% packet loss.


You can do a tracert in DOS or use something like Visual Route http://www.visualroute.com/

[spotjo]

The pages load here fine some times it gets a bit slow

Jo

[keen_as_mustard]

Thanks Steve, appreciate you looking into it.

200 users at one time - I knew Ausfish was popular, but not that popular.

Marty

[imported_admin]

Members online info is at the bottom of the main page

http://www.ausfish.com.au/cgi-ausfish/yabb2/YaBB.cgi

Here are the stats
Most users ever online at once was 229 on 09. Jan 2006 at 13:11
Most Members ever online at once was 122 on Yesterday at 20:13
Most Guests ever online at once was 134 on 09. Jan 2006 at 11:51

[gogecko]

Im not finding anything slow, but Im online between 9am-noon mostly. Im never online in the evenings. Apart from the odd time the server has been down, Ive had no speed issues at all.

[bay_firey]

Here you go Steve
TPG are routing through NZ as well
There are some real problems once it hits new zealand

Tracing route to www.ausfish.com.au [216.121.1.53]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms 192.168.1.1
2 31 ms 33 ms 32 ms bri-pow-ibo-tit-3-loo-30.tpgi.com.au [202.7.162.157]
3 32 ms 32 ms 33 ms bri-pow-ibo-cup-1.tpgi.com.au [203.213.7.208]
4 32 ms 31 ms 33 ms bri-pow-ibo-zeu-1-ge-2-1.tpgi.com.au [203.213.7.193]
5 33 ms 33 ms 32 ms vlan317.14vrc76f06.optus.net.au [203.202.148.241]
6 48 ms 49 ms 49 ms GE-WAN3-1.un2.optus.net.au [203.202.36.9]
7 47 ms 45 ms 47 ms ConnectCom.un2.optus.net.au [61.88.171.206]
8 47 ms 49 ms 49 ms so-4-1-0.cre1.hay.connect.com.au [202.10.4.93]
9 48 ms 46 ms 45 ms so-0-0-0.bdr5.hay.connect.com.au [202.10.4.98]
10 51 ms 49 ms 50 ms g2-4.sybr2.global-gateway.net.nz [203.96.117.69]

11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 453 ms 451 ms 454 ms core-02.ge-4-6.sfo1.netoptex.com [64.127.97.90]

15 471 ms 462 ms 468 ms 64.127.106.132
16 479 ms 474 ms 469 ms ausfish.com.au [216.121.1.53]

Trace complete.

[bay_firey]

This confirms the time taken

Pinging www.ausfish.com.au [216.121.1.53] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.121.1.53: bytes=32 time=478ms TTL=242
Reply from 216.121.1.53: bytes=32 time=468ms TTL=242
Reply from 216.121.1.53: bytes=32 time=466ms TTL=242
Reply from 216.121.1.53: bytes=32 time=467ms TTL=242

Ping statistics for 216.121.1.53:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 466ms, Maximum = 478ms, Average = 469ms

[subzero]

The boys in NZ are out to lunch, they dont get penal rates over their now so they are taking their time
Well, thats my story and im sticking to it

Cheers Lloyd