Hey SS....

[Teh Fragster]

Well I took the time to run a tracert to try and figure out why this place is so slow sometimes late at night--it would seem theres a few laggy servers in the way. Damn British servers.

Tracing route to www.bpsite.co.uk [217.206.220.146]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     8 ms     7 ms     8 ms  10.104.96.1
  2     7 ms     8 ms     7 ms  24.164.160.143
  3    10 ms    10 ms    13 ms  24.164.160.42
  4    13 ms    11 ms    11 ms  so-8-1.car2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.78.166.77]
  5    12 ms    11 ms    11 ms  ge-2-2.core1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.136]
  6    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  4.78.160.38
  7    78 ms    78 ms    78 ms  so0-1-0-0.gr1.thlon.uk.easynet.net [207.162.205.137]
  8    77 ms    78 ms    78 ms  ge1-0-0-0.br0.thlon.uk.easynet.net [207.162.198.14]
  9    77 ms    79 ms    78 ms  ge0-0-0-0.br0.tclon.uk.easynet.net [195.172.211.206]
 10    79 ms    80 ms    80 ms  fe1-1-0.ar0.rblon.uk.easynet.net [217.204.60.51]
 11    79 ms    79 ms    80 ms  fa0-0.cr0.rblon.uk.easynet.net [195.40.4.132]
 12    81 ms    79 ms    79 ms  217.204.47.54
 13    81 ms    78 ms    80 ms  r146.easily.co.uk [217.206.220.146]

Trace complete.


Have at it! It seems to be up and down right now, if I can get it when it really seems bogged I'll try another tracert and see what it turns up.

[SS]

Easynet is the place where Easily host their servers, so the fact it takes so long indicates some sort of problem at the data centre.
(They're probably routing it through a stupidly slow hub or something)

Can you do a tracert on bpsite.net also - I'm not sure if that is UK or US based.

[Fragster]

Nothing seemed to be running slow when I did this, again I'll retry tonight, especially if it slows down. At any rate, this took even longer than to bpsite.co.uk--on a couple of the last hops, it took a couple seconds before the server actually showed up after it showed the time it took. Odd.

Tracing route to bpsite.net [83.142.27.234]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    12 ms     8 ms     8 ms  10.104.96.1
  2     8 ms     7 ms     8 ms  24.164.160.143
  3    10 ms    12 ms    11 ms  24.164.160.42
  4    11 ms    14 ms    11 ms  so-8-1.car2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.78.166.77]
  5    11 ms    13 ms    21 ms  ae-1-55.bbr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.129]
  6    77 ms    78 ms    77 ms  ae-1-0.bbr1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.128.58]
  7    80 ms    76 ms    76 ms  ge-10-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.7]
  8    80 ms    80 ms    79 ms  ge-1-1-0-0.core1.sta.lon2.coreix.net [195.50.117.142]
  9    77 ms    80 ms    80 ms  ge-0-1-50.dist1.sta.lon2.coreix.net [193.26.222.30]
 10    78 ms    77 ms    77 ms  pluto.solardns.com [83.142.27.234]

Trace complete.

[SS]

Odd. It's marginally faster here, by roughly 2ms.

In both cases for you the speed loss has been after it's left NewYork1.Level3.net - perhaps it's simply the atlantic link being slow?

:paranoid:
Maybe it's been slower recently because they're using Echelon to monitor for terrorist activity...

[mole]

wonder how much the weather affects speed over the atlantic...random thought but interesting

[Lord Lanair]

Would the weather actually affect speeds?  :huh:  

[SS]

Isn't the cable at the bottom of the ocean - weather shouldn't affect it at all?

[mole]

cable my eye, surely most of its done through transmitters now

[Lord Lanair]

You mean satellites?  :huh:

Oh and SS... [ Script Execution time: 243.6157 ]   [ 16 queries used ]   [ GZIP Enabled ] when I tried to open a page 15 minutes ago (good thing I have pocket tanks on my computer; I didn't get annoyed/bored enough to throw my computer against a wall).  

[smi256]

you have pocket tanks too?!?!! that's such a FUN little game!!

[mole]

looks like a dodgy worms

[Lord Lanair]

you have pocket tanks too?!?!! that's such a FUN little game!!

I'm actually planning on copying it to my external hard drive (along with all 25 G of my music) for transfer to my new laptop... yes, that IS easier than redownloading it! Heh, it will be the only thing on there besides mp3s.