Who's Online Very Slow ???

[njrqs]

Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

Oh Great One and all devoted followers............

Since the revamp (Well, maybe only more recently - who knows) I have trouble getting to see who's online. It seems to hang or take forever.

All other areas of the site work fine.

Any ideas??

Cheers and keep up the very good work !!

 

[Bird]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

These contraptions sure confuse me, Neil. I have no problem with who's online. Of course, I cannot get into <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.iwon.com>http://www.iwon.com</A> and have no idea why.

 

[Wal]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

Hmmmmm. "Who's Online" works fine for me. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Muhammad]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

Yeah, we haven't had any problems with speed of the who's online page.

 

[TerryinMD]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

njrqs,

You may be getting into some network latency issues since you're way on the other side of the really big pond called the Pacific. Won't go into any specific details, but your requests and the returned data have to travel a long way here and back. It could get very much more geeky that trying to explain Microsoft or software development issues. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Just for grins, try this from your command prompt (better way) or run menu pick - ping www.tractorbynet.com. This will send a datagram to the web server to see if it is alive. Try it at various times to see what the round trip time may be.

Here's what I get from Northern Virginia (condensed version):

Round trip times:

Min=40ms
Max=50ms
Avg=45ms

ms= milliseconds

Terry

 

[BMW]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

It works fine for me to. Maybe it just takes longer for all of those ones and zeros to get to the other side if the world. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Seriously, i have occasionally had trouble while trying to open a post in a new window. They just get lost in a white page. Refresh or reload usually works.

Later
Mark

 

[scruffy]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

Hey, don' mind me, I ain't even online....I just checked....so that means I ain't here. Don' it?

 

[Harv]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

<font color=blue>that means I ain't here. Don' it?</font color=blue>

Heck, Scruffy -- you may not even exist! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[scruffy]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

Harv, that's what I suspected! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[njrqs]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

Oh well. yes it must be that "Big Pond"

Actually my ISP is called "Big Pond"

Cheers

 

[njrqs]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

Well I can get into Bird's site, but the Who's Online stillnot a happening thing.

Used to be fine.

Terry

How do I do that thing?? - I am confused.

Do I go to Start - Run then type "menu ping thing?????"

 

[TerryinMD]

Re: Who\'s Online Very Slow ???

njrqs,

What OS are you using? WIN95, WIN98, etc??? This information determines what the function is called and where to find it. Isn't Windows fun?/w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

The best thing to do is to find either the Command Prompt or DOS Prompt application. Once you locate it, execute it and then type in:

ping www.tractorbynet.com

You will then get the data returned from the ping.

What you are doing is sending a datagram to the server asking how long it took for the datagram to get there in milliseconds. Depending on the time of day, time of month, and other variables, it is an indication of how busy the internet is between you and the target network device (server in this case). Again there are other variables involved such as the route chosen by the routers. It can vary depending upon broken links, network device availability, load leveling, and a range of other factors.

I hope this helps.

Terry