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max

03-24-2001 04:54:17




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When I click on a posting, it takes about a minute to come up. My modem is at 50k. I just put in an ultra 100 pci adapter card and a 7200 rpm hard disk. The computer upstairs seems as slow. My great local isp was bought out by onemain.com and now stinks. Are they the culprit?




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Roger (Norcal)

03-31-2001 22:14:56




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 Re: slow computer in reply to max, 03-24-2001 04:54:17  
There are several things that you can try that have not been mentioned. I also have had my ISP swallowed up by Onemain.com which now has been swallowed up by earthlink.net.
First, you should regularly go to start, find, files or folders, and type in cooki, temp, and cache one at a time and purge the appropriate files. Next, if you have not already done so, run defrag in My Computer, C, properties, tools. This will act to compress files or put them in one place instead of all over your hard drive. Sounds like you have a site for checking speed. I use the free download for NetMedic. It tells you what speed your modem is, but it also tells you at what speed any given website downloads to your machine, how much of the delay is caused by the website and how much by the network in percentages and several other things. I recently downloaded a program I love, and will probobly buy at the end of the 30 day trial period. It is called Cookie Crusher mfg by The Limit Software Co. Excellent for blocking unwanted tracking cookies and any other cookies. It gives you the option to accept or delete each individually, or always accept or never accept. It is a pop up screen which only pops up the first time you visit a website. It remembers on subsequent visits/ Good Luck

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Wade

03-27-2001 22:11:53




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 Re: slow computer in reply to max, 03-24-2001 04:54:17  
Sometimes my PC does some wierd stuff and I have to reload my browser or break my connection and reconnect to get it to act right. The other night I had to restart the machine.

But sometimes it is the ISP, but not that often for me



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luckydog

03-26-2001 05:55:47




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 Re: slow computer in reply to max, 03-24-2001 04:54:17  
In my location where I live I pick the time of day that I get online,(early morning, afternoon or late nite). Seems when the school kids are in class I have no problems but when they are home the trafic on the computers slow me down where I have to wait long periods of time to bring up posts. Soooo sometimes You just have to live with the problem until they upgrade which they are allways doing. Consider the number of computers in the world, more and more everyday!! It is one of the fastest growing things in the world. luckydog

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MarB

03-25-2001 05:08:24




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 Re: slow computer in reply to max, 03-24-2001 04:54:17  
Try this, if you're running Windows. Open up an MSDOS window and type "tracert ytmag.com" (In UNIX, it's "traceroute ytmag.com".) traceroute will give you something that looks like this:

traceroute to ytmag.com (64.85.72.115), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 pm003-pontiac.bignet.net (198.108.19.4) 145.562 ms 139.054 ms 139.391 ms 2 bordercore1-ethernet4-0.mich.com (198.108.19.1) 139.085 ms 129.300 ms 129.409 ms 3 port105.net100.bignet.net (206.67.100.105) 139.012 ms 139.035 ms 139.309 ms 4 bignet-t3-gw.Alter.net (137.39.146.1) 139.062 ms 140.689 ms 137.872 ms 5 122.at-2-0-0.XR2.CHI4.ALTER.NET (146.188.208.206) 152.707 ms 149.168 ms 153.669 ms 6 0.so-3-0-0.TR4.CHI4.ALTER.NET (152.63.15.238) 156.137 ms 149.261 ms 149.311 ms 7 106.at-6-1-0.TR2.POR3.ALTER.NET (146.188.141.230) 218.980 ms 219.085 ms 219.569 ms 8 196.ATM7-0.XR2.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.17) 218.787 ms 219.267 ms 219.399 ms 9 194.ATM7-0.GW6.SEA1.ALTER.NET (146.188.201.77) 219.059 ms 219.259 ms 219.414 ms
10 exodus-sea1-oc3.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.12.186) 219.082 ms 220.158 ms 218.500 ms
11 dcr02-g2-0.tkwl01.exodus.net (216.34.64.162) 219.041 ms 219.055 ms 219.230 ms
12 csr12-ve240.tkwl01.exodus.net (216.34.64.35) 217.765 ms 219.310 ms 219.599 ms
13 64.85.71.174 (64.85.71.174) 226.726 ms 218.938 ms 219.504 ms
14 64.85.72.115 (64.85.72.115) 217.918 ms 219.818 ms 229.832 ms

This tells you the route from you to ytmag. Any bottlenecks will show up as a big difference between two hops. In my case, it's the first hop between me and my ISP, which is about 140 milliseconds. The total time to get to ytmag is the last line in the report, which is about 220 milliseconds.

If you see a single line that has numbers way bigger than the previous line, there's a bottleneck there and you have a legitimate complaint with your ISP. Run this test at different times over several days, then send all the reports to your ISP. If they don't try to fix it, then switch ISPs.
If any hop

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Wade

03-27-2001 22:08:08




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 Re: Re: slow computer in reply to MarB, 03-25-2001 05:08:24  
Thanks for that info. My ISP had a bottleneck the other weekend and would NOT admit it. Next time I'll stick it in their face.



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MarkB

03-25-2001 06:42:57




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 Re: Re: slow computer in reply to MarB, 03-25-2001 05:08:24  
One other thing to check. Make sure that the IP address for your DNS server in your dialup networking setup agrees with the IP address provided by your new ISP.

When my ISP was swallowed by a bigger one, the new ISP shut down the old server without telling anyone. As a result all of my DNS lookups were failing over to a secondary DNS server. This made DNS lookups much slower until I found the problem and fixed it.

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max

03-24-2001 09:04:21




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 Re: slow computer in reply to max, 03-24-2001 04:54:17  
I just tried it through aol, and it's almost instant.



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ltf in nc

03-24-2001 06:07:53




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 Re: slow computer in reply to max, 03-24-2001 04:54:17  
Max, I am in a rush this A M but check out this site. I will try to locate some more info when time permits.



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F14

03-24-2001 06:06:19




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 Re: slow computer in reply to max, 03-24-2001 04:54:17  
Possibly. Also YT's site gets a case of the slows a bit more often than usual lately. I suspect it has to do with the West Coast power problems and rolling brownouts. I believe Kim's server is in CA, and if enough routers go down, things get slow.



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Ray,IN

03-24-2001 21:02:16




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 Re: Re: slow computer in reply to F14, 03-24-2001 06:06:19  
I don't know much about the I-net,however my ISP works great. I used a speed check site, and it said my ISP was providing speed my modem cannot match. F14, is it me, or does slowly clicking the mouse button eliminate the slow posting/connection error? I have adopted the slow click, and the posts accept readily.



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Jerry B

03-26-2001 07:21:49




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 Re: Re: Re: slow computer in reply to Ray,IN, 03-24-2001 21:02:16  
PLease post the URL for the speed check site.
thanks,
Jerry B



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Roger

03-27-2001 18:58:20




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: slow computer in reply to Jerry B, 03-26-2001 07:21:49  
Here you go! I use this site when I have finished installing DSL for a client. Some of the better connections have given me over 600 Kbps. I have seen 4500 - 6800 Kbps, but I think that was some kind of anomoly.



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