Forum speed starts quick ends s l o www...

mikesmithfl · #1 02-08-2008, 07:57 PM

Hi All:

Any ideas about what may be causing the forum experience here (and other places with vBulletin forums) to start out nice and fast, but very shortly turn in to a full series of timeouts? It's kind of weird.

I'm in the process of becoming an HG customer, but am wary about the weirdness that may cause trouble when seeking advice/help, etc.

I've been trying to come up with ideas, and one that came to mind was the ATT DNS service, so originally, I tried OpenDNS.org but it didn't seem to make a difference. Now I've tried a sideways attempt and am using a beefed up Hosts file from MVPS. Of course this is just a wild guess, but I couldn't find ways around my other guesses about PHP or javascript causing some weirdness with the Sun Java stuff.

Tks,
Mike

edit:
It just happened again while trying to read this message after posting it. I logged off (not a restart) and back on again, and the speed returned. I also noticed that not all the pictures/icons seem to be loading on the threads & pages after a while, just before the connection freezes up and times out.
Oh, yes - I'm using ATT Fast Access DSL (was BellSouth b4 ATT bought it) with a router/firewall, MSIE v7, WinXP-sp2.

Serra · #2 02-08-2008, 09:32 PM

Hmmm... I'm not seeing any issues and I'm fairly close to you, so I suspect it is your system or very local to you.

I'd look at the virus scanner you are using, see if disabling it makes surfing faster. I'd also run a speed test and see what you dl speed is.

gtgeorge · #3 02-08-2008, 09:36 PM

We have no issues on either of our AT&T dsl connects here in GA. The forum usually performs quickly. You may want to do some testing on your connection.

mikesmithfl · #4 02-11-2008, 02:47 AM

Hi, Thanks. I tried disabling the AV and tested the DL speeds, I'm normally getting up to 340KBps. I did notice another peculiarity. If I proceed through the forums in one window/one tab and don't switch back and forth between tabs and use only the page navigation displayed on each page, everything seems to work OK. When I open new windows and/or tabs, things go downhill quickly and eventually lock up with a time-out.

I'll just have to remember to stay in one tab.

Mike