Complaints about the forum being slow

[6MT]

No issues now in rural AB.

[Doug_M]

I agree Shoe, it seems to be ISP and/or location based.

I’m in NS on Bell’s FibreOp. Used to have the issue where clicking like slowly refreshed the whole page. That has been gone for a while now. Only other issue is some photos just show as a generic icon placeholder. But that is exclusive to Tapatalk. If I view the same post in any web browser it works just fine.

But as for speed issues I’ve had none.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

[chuckbuster]

Still have all the same problems in northern Ontario; nothing has changed.

[RangeBob]

Nothing has changed. Still slow.
Disabling some scripts has returned the functionality of some buttons.

[Dewey Cox]

On wifi in Arizona, the site is unloadably slow.
Using data it works quickly.
Other lesser Canadian gun sites and outdoor forums are working fine both ways.

[SteelCap]

Nothing has changed. Still slow.
Disabling some scripts has returned the functionality of some buttons.

Looks like it went back to slow for me. Page rendering also went back to text.

[MarkR]

Chrome loads very fast today, but still can not post. Explorer over 2 minutes a page today, and longer for a post to appear.

[Shoe]

I agree Shoe, it seems to be ISP and/or location based.I’m in NS on Bell’s FibreOp. Used to have the issue where clicking like slowly refreshed the whole page. That has been gone for a while now. Only other issue is some photos just show as a generic icon placeholder. But that is exclusive to Tapatalk. If I view the same post in any web browser it works just fine. But as for speed issues I’ve had none. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I just tried the site using a web based VPN and set the location to Netherlands.Site speed was normal! Unfortunately I wasn't able to test if the editor functions worked properly as I did not want to log in via some random VPN site I Googled.So the location based idea may have some merit.

[awndray]

It's slow all over for me. Android, Tapatalk, Windows 10, Edge, Chrome, Bell, Telus, Rogers and Allstream.

[lone-wolf]

Would a tracert provide any information from the people with issues? I would think that would show where the communication is bottlenecked.
Of course, my knowledge of troubleshooting peaked when I was a kid in the 90s so what do I know.

[Shoe]

This is what I got from a traceroute app using my DSL (Teksavvy)
Ping: 80.1 ms
TTL: 255
United States (Scottsdale)

Using my hotspot (Telus mobility)
Ping: 30.5 ms
TTL: 255
United States (Scottsdale)

The editor is still wonky and missing the editing toolbar when I'm on my hard line.
Everything is reappears when using the hotspot/cellular.

[stewbud]

I experienced a few slow weeks, then a regular week, now I am back to taking 15 seconds to load a page.

Very frustrating.

[Shoe]

I'm thinking more and more this is some kind of location based issue.

I'm using the same device I usually do on my home DSL network (Teksavvy) but this time, with a VPN.

VPN location set to, "United States". Speed is now very fast. Full editing functions are available.

Maybe the way that people in the eastern part of the country are being routed to the server?

EDIT:

I've dropped the VPN and found that the effect was still holding. Good loading speed and full editor available.

I rebooted my device to see if that would bring the issue back. The site sometimes loaded slow but for the most part, everything runs smooth for me now.

I looked at the stats at the bottom of the main forum page.

What's Going On?

Currently Active Users

There are currently 200 users online. 17 members and 183 guests

Maybe less load on the server with the amount of users online??


Edit 2.

Back to being slow and editor not working. Back on the VPN / USA and all is well.

So it looks like using a VPN is a temporary work around.

[RangeBob]

very bad

The site is now unsuitable for any purpose.
- Extremely slow.
- It's frequently logging me off -- which due to the delays I'm wondering if it's getting the cookie.
- Formatting has gone off the rails bad.
- Hmm, although there are no buttons at the top (e.g. Whats New At GOC), and no control buttons (e.g. "Submit Reply"), the functionallity is still there. I just have to look for it.
- The What's New At GOC looks weird, but in some ways it is formatting better than it has in a month.

[chuckbuster]

Holy Crap Batman! Everything now appears normal. The morning was a bit of a gong show...site was very badly formatted, passwords were unencrypted and the site was unusable. Tried several times during the day, but it was always the same story. Just logged in and most issues seem resolved.