The odd thing is, I don't live all that far from John J. Of course, once my main work computer turned into an expensive doorstop in front of my eyes yesterday, I'm only checking from home :(
My ISP connects to Embarq (was Sprint) I believe now the connections are over Fiber Optic. At one time they were over dedicated copper lines, but was different from typical POTS system though I couldn't explain how. Because at one time they had a system believe called ISDN in which you could get bonded pair line would increase your bandwidth twice as much.
Besides DSL they also have Broadband over satellite.
I've left a note on my front door for the installer tech to bang really hard and wake me up when the FiOS line is right outside my door, ready for me to hook up to.
Until that time, cable internet is the fastest, most robust residential connection we here in the US can get.
Today I can watch paint dry. before reading anything here.
Would it do any good if I traveled to where the person is That is responsible for maintaining this Forum setup and beat the tar out of him?! Somebody need to light a fire under who ever it is.
Can't they trace where where the slow down is and have that part straighten out their Problem?
In Todays Technology everything like this should either be on Fibre Optic, or satellite feed in between first hop and just before the last hope
This is nonsense. One day it comes up so fast it gets on the screen before you can blink your eye. 10 minutes later it takes 10 minutes for something to load.
well its 3:58 now Eastern Daylight time. And when I firstload up this screen it was 3:48.
Why do they have to reboot the software ever other day. Sounds like they need to throw away all their servers and get some Macintosh Servers and OSX.5 Server version. Then they could go years without a boot.
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"Would it do any good if I traveled to where the person is That is responsible for maintaining this Forum setup and beat the tar out of him?! Somebody need to light a fire under who ever it is.blah, blah, etc. etc.
Enough already, Phil.
Your objections have been noted, time and again. Now you're just kinda coming off as a passive/aggressive whiner.
Its not being a Whinnier when You can't depend on reading a forum with any certainty from Day to day minute to minute.
I'm not fussing about it anymore than anyone else is. I'd just like to have something done rather than; "Oh shucks going have to wait 10-20 minutes for everything to load up today. Maybe it will be better tomorrow."
You get jerked around enough. Would make you blood boil too.
Now if there was a glitch twice a year or once every two years , no big deal. I'd just ask what Happened, and go on about my business.
I've been with my ISP for 10 years or more and in that time they've had a problem 6-7 times (in 10 years) I call them up ask,what's going on. They thank me for my taking time to report it. We're working on it now.
If their service started doing like this forum system. I would be looking for a new ISP so fast, it would make their head spin. And While I would not dis them with anyone. I wouldn't recommend either.
If you're highly experienced and savvy about the complexities of Internet infrastructure, Website construction, and Web interfaces; and have current-technology constructive and practical solutions to the sporadic speed issues and the knowledge of how to implement them without service interruption to a very high-traffic Web presence/database structure, I'm sure the powers that be would like to hear your ideas.
Otherwise, I fear you know not what is involved in resolving what, on the surface, may appear to be a simple problem.
>If you're highly experienced and savvy about the complexities of Internet infrastructure, Website construction, and Web interfaces; and have current-technology constructive and practical solutions to the sporadic speed issues and the knowledge...
point made in that case. (and, yes, I realize it wasn't directed at you)
In general, people have to understand that few tasks are as easy as they seem from the outside looking in. I'm sure that we could find legitimate reasons to fuss about anyone's work. This is just more public then most of us have to contend with, so we catch flack for being less then perfect in some people eyes.
No I am not that Techno literate. But I did maintain a website about 10 years and and still the webmaster for that site.
But it seems to be so aggravating that this Forum has gone for years (I've been an Acrobat User since Acrobat 4 and OS-9.x) with so much as a hiccup.
Then here in the last year its gone to pot. Today all but the last 6 messages I have read loaded lightning fast. Then its started with a 5 second delay, then a 10 second delay, then a 15second delay, Then a couple of minutes. This last one I am writing in 10 ten minutes to load.
It seem from my untrained eye that whatever, is experience some type of bad code or glitch that cause it to reboot the software almost at the same time a day. Has anyone considered reading the crash logs and find out what's happening each day this happens.
I just want to read my forums in peace and quiet and have them load up before I can blink my eyes.
I truly think there's something going on with the "last mile" of your connection, Phil.
You may want to try to do some deep troubleshooting with your DSL provider.
I say this, because my brotherwhen he was living in
Lexington Fairfield VAwas having some very similar (and worse) problems with his Earthlink/Sprint DSL connection several years ago. They went through everything they could think of (and my brother's pretty dang savvy when it comes to the gear on his side of the house threshhold) and nothing would fix it so he was able to get consistent service. He does a lot of his business communication (real estate) through the net, and it was vitally important to him.
They finally got an engineer on the case and found out that there was a relay box about a mile from his house that was bad, or configured improperly. Technician climbs the pole, switches out the old box for a new one.
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