Anyone having trouble accessing the forum?

Simon · Jan 07, 2014, 11:33:11

Intermittently, and seemingly randomly, it keeps stalling on me, on my home wifi and now on 3G. Sometimes pages won't load at all, sometimes the reply page will load, but then the post itself won't. Yesterday, for a couple of minutes, I was just getting blank pages. I've cleared the cookies and history on my phone, and it seems OK at the moment, but just wondered if anyone else has had trouble.

zappaDPJ · Jan 07, 2014, 11:49:56

It was not responding very well overnight but that's a regular occurrence. I've looked in a few times this morning without any noticeable issues so far.

Simon · Jan 07, 2014, 12:00:04

I would have said it's me being on a dodgy 3G connection, but it did it at home too, albeit also on my phone. Pals seems fine. I'll see how it goes.

Glenn · Jan 07, 2014, 12:29:22

It's been working fine each time I have visited.

Simon · Jan 07, 2014, 12:46:13

Of course it is. Starting this thread has fixed it.

Gary · Jan 08, 2014, 06:54:43

Is it me or is the forum running realy slow this morning. Pages are taing ages to open at this moment from my end.

zappaDPJ · Jan 08, 2014, 07:02:37

It's not just you, I'm getting the same.

talos · Jan 08, 2014, 07:09:44

Same here, intermittent and when it does load very slow

Gary · Jan 08, 2014, 07:10:22

some times pages ate taking over a second or more to load, Zap

Quote from: zappaDPJ on Jan 08, 2014, 07:02:37
It's not just you, I'm getting the same.

.Sometimes pages are taking over a second to load, Zap, or I just cant get to the forum.

Steve · Jan 08, 2014, 07:19:31

True, I've just had an indicated 6.1 sec page load.

Gary · Jan 08, 2014, 08:03:27

Seems to be ok again now. Its like a yoyo

Simon · Jan 08, 2014, 11:02:23

I remember when we could only dream of forum pages loading in less than a second!

Singlespeeder · Jan 08, 2014, 21:11:53

Just a thought - I have had difficulties with certain websites recently and I saw that I couldn't load moneysavingsexpert.com today as it was waiting on a certain server.

I have just modified my DNS settings on the router to point to Google's public service and everything has snapped back into working.

Wikipedia and youtube were having great difficulty. Could it be the idnet DNS servers' daemons need a restart?

Simon · Jan 08, 2014, 22:03:59

It's been fine for me today, so...

Gary · Jan 09, 2014, 06:09:09

Quote from: Singlespeeder on Jan 08, 2014, 21:11:53
Just a thought - I have had difficulties with certain websites recently and I saw that I couldn't load moneysavingsexpert.com today as it was waiting on a certain server.

I have just modified my DNS settings on the router to point to Google's public service and everything has snapped back into working.

Wikipedia and youtube were having great difficulty. Could it be the idnet DNS servers' daemons need a restart?

Always best to be careful using third party DNS servers. Yes they do offer faster resolution in ome cases of some degree of malware protection, but the can also slow downloads. Akamai looks to serve up youtube, a iTunes download etc from a point close to you. With say Open DNS or Norton DNS they have a similar spread of servers world wide, but if say the one in the UK is busy at that moment you could be using one in the Netherlands, or Germany or worse. This will increase your hops and slow down your downloads. Also do you trust who is getting your DNS lookups? I trust IDNet more than say Google. Third-party servers can work out to be both Jekyll and Hyde.