New site's rear drive starting to go south?!

[messenger13]

All of my other frequented sites are 'business as usual' . . . but bmwlt.com is slower than molasses in January, as of the past week or so. Sometimes it won't even come up...period. Anyone else experiencing this?

My 3mb dsl is acting like 14.4 dialup, or slower. :eek:

[Malki]

Nope, fast as anything at this end, 4mb connection in Scotland.

[mneblett]

Full speed over here on the Right Coast, too. Some things must just be slow somewhere in Ohio ;)

[Randy]

All of my other frequented sites are 'business as usual' . . . but bmwlt.com is slower than molasses in January, as of the past week or so. Sometimes it won't even come up...period. Anyone else experiencing this?

My 3mb dsl is acting like 14.4 dialup, or slower. :eek:Joe;

I haven't seen it here. New post search time and page preparation time still running around 0.04 seconds. No issues with our ISP as far as I know. By compaison a new post search on a couple of other vBulletin sites I just visited were running over 2 seconds.

We'll keep an eye on it though.

[Chick]

Joe:

With my 3mb dsl the site comes up just fine. Must be a problem at your end.

[TandemCyclist]

The sun got behind my satellite and my unit got a little slow, but on everything.
Sites better than ever, especially with the reputation points thing. I'm cracking up. You guys are doing great.

I just wish a few more people would visit the sub forums. I don't think we are getting the good answers to questions, over there, like we used to when questions were posted in the general discussion. Maybe a question area would help, no comments just questions and possible answers.

Thanks
Rick

[mwnahas]

Joe are you with SBC dsl?
I am, and have and recent outages or pauses in the service. Some so long that I get timeout errors. They claimed it was my 'third party router' of course so I changed it out but still had problems. I thought it was getting better this weekend though.

[petepeterson]

Fine here Joe,, Try a ping test see how many hops it has........Regards Pete

[rlsmith2]

All seems well here on the Left coast with 3 Mb DSL.

[Beemerider]

Seems fine here:

http://mail.bmwlt.net/%7Ebeemerider/Clip_2.jpg



:)

[jim1439]

Joe I'm having the same problem. It hangs up while transferring data from the site.

[airborneod]

Joe,


DSL in San Diego id doin fine...

[meese]

User problem maybe? ;)

He David, why is the US all wrinkly in your signature?

[messenger13]

Ken...just the guy I wanted to ask. When I perform a 'netstat', it tells me that bmwlt.com has a BOATLOAD of ports open (50 to 100!). Can you perform any such feature on your mac? Not trying to compare operating systems here...just trying to figure out why bmwlt.com is opening and closing so many ports on my PC.

Confused, :confused:

[meese]

Sorry, Joe, just getting back to these posts. I'm not too familiar with netstat. The Mac OS stuff is all auto-configure, and my job works with 1980's UNIX technology.

I can run netstat using a Terminal application, and I also seem to have a ton of ports open, though few are actually labeled or tied to a specific application or site.

[andy]

Ken...just the guy I wanted to ask. When I perform a 'netstat', it tells me that bmwlt.com has a BOATLOAD of ports open (50 to 100!). Can you perform any such feature on your mac? Not trying to compare operating systems here...just trying to figure out why bmwlt.com is opening and closing so many ports on my PC.

Confused, :confused:

Netstat shows all you connections no matter if they are in use or not. Also in the nature of the web: BMWLT.com does NOT open any connections to you, in fact it is the other way round. Thats just the nature of the beast. A web server sits there and waits for requests to be sent and responds to these requests accordingly.

In terms of network what happens: (at a very high level, since going onto the packet level doesn't make sense, but we can ;) )

Client sends a connection request to port 80
Server accepts the connection
Client sends request
Server responds to request and at the end closes the connection

Which means: If you have boatloads of connections open to BMWLT.com that MIGHT be the problem. I know our server is set up to handle 10's of thousends of connections at the same time. But I also know that most PC's are tagged out quite quickly. Please note that I am not trying to tell you what it is, just offering food for thought.

[messenger13]

Andy/Meese...

I found out that the RSS Feed portion of my browser is what was reeking all the havok. I use a freeware browser called 'Maxthon' (which does use the IE engine) that has awesome filters, and tabs. I won't use any other browser...but that's another thread altogether. Evidently, it's RSS Feed code is shoddy at best, and as soon as I turned it off, bmwlt.com became 'normal' again. Whatever that means. :)

Thanks for the insight andy. That's helpful information. The fact that I use a tabbed-browser is also the reason why my PC is opening so many ports. Makes sense.

Case closed! Next! :D

[meese]

At the risk of being obvious, Safari has awesome filters, controls, and tabs built right in. :)

[messenger13]

Surely you are suggesting that to all others. Because I clearly and purposefully stated "I won't use any other browser...but that's another thread altogether.".

Then again, you are just so helpful like that. It's your nature. You just can't help yourself. :D

[dshealey]

I personally don't care what browser you use, but to just emphatically state that you "will use no other" with no reason seems to be awfully closed minded. If the mostly never heard of browser is so good that you will use no other, then spread the word WHY you feel it is good, even it it's RSS function is terrible.

I dropped IE and went with Firefox, but really have seen no big difference. I tried Thunderbird for email, but after three months and not being able to get help with issues on the newsgroups for it went back to IE. Thunderbird is NOT what it is cracked up to be. There are a number of issues with it, and when questions come up there often are no good answers on the newsgroup/forum for it. It may be good one day, but right now it is flaky in some ways. Functions in IE that work easily cannot be made to work in Thunderbird. My biggest problem was having it open attached .jpg files with a specified application. Never could get it to do that.

[messenger13]

David...first off, my statement to Ken contained a ton of tongue & cheek, so take that FWIW.

What I LOVE (not like) about Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com/) is that it can be configured to look almost identical to IE. But the tabs is why I downloaded it in the first place. Then there's the filters. I literally have ZERO pop-ups. It also does a pretty good job against spyware and adware. Another nice "feature" is that, because it uses part of the IE engine, you don't have to deal with the incompatibility issues that the other "better than IE" browsers present to you. For the most part, everything just works. If you do download it, don't install any of the other plugins that they give to you along with it. Except maybe the weather plugin. I've used that one for sometime now with no ill-effects.

Do feel free to PM me if you start using it and questions arise. I have many freinds and customers alike using the browser with mucho satisfaction.

[messenger13]

Oh...but don't use the RSS Feed portion! :D

[meese]

Don't worry Joe, everything you post is taken with a ton of tongue & cheek. :D

And while there's a a tiny bit of gloating, I do like to point out that many of the Mac items have already solved most of the problems that Windows users still seem to be struggling with. For example, pop-ups are gone with one click of a simple menu item. No need to install other plugins or additions.

But to be fair, I still occasionally run across a site with some feature that doesn't quite work right with Safari. I do have a copy of IE on my Mac, but only have to use it about once every 2-3 months when I run across a weird site (like the BMW auto payment setup pages).

I haven't played with the RSS feeds yet, but they're also integrated into Safari such that a little RSS icon shows up in the url box of any site that supports it (including this one).

It's sort of like adding heated grips to your Ninja and telling the world how wonderful they are, while the rest of us just say "yeah, had that on my Beemers for many years now." :)

[messenger13]

I haven't played with the RSS feeds yet, but they're also integrated into Safari such that a little RSS icon shows up in the url box of any site that supports it (including this one).
Yea...I have a little icon that shows up too. When left alone, it was fine. :) Then one day, I decided to click on "subscribe" which activated the RSS Feed feature for this site. A few days later I start experiencing 14.4-like behavior. I wasn't smart enough to remember that I subscribed to this site...hence this whole thread.