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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright © 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\tracert http://www.babeshows.co.uk

Tracing route to babeshows.co.uk [174.123.87.210]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms
2 30 ms 29 ms 30 ms dr2.enlba.isp.sky.com [89.200.128.31]
3 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms vl192.ar8.enlba.isp.sky.com [89.200.133.186]
4 41 ms 35 ms 39 ms ge-2-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [195.66.224.76]
5 36 ms 36 ms 37 ms ge-4-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [64.125.27.145]
6 109 ms 109 ms 109 ms so-1-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.31.186]
7 109 ms 109 ms 109 ms xe-1-3-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.29.21]
8 136 ms 135 ms 136 ms xe-2-2-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.29.37]
9 136 ms 137 ms 134 ms xe-1-1-0.er1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.26.222]
10 135 ms 136 ms 136 ms 209.66.99.94.available.above.net [209.66.99.94]
11 179 ms 215 ms 150 ms te2-5.dsr01.hstntx1.networklayer.com [207.218.245.26]
12 143 ms 144 ms 143 ms po16.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com [70.87.253.105]
13 145 ms 145 ms 145 ms te4-1.car14.hstntx2.networklayer.com [74.55.252.222]
14 147 ms 145 ms 141 ms d2.57.7bae.static.theplanet.com [174.123.87.210]


Trace complete.

19:24 08/05/11

(08-05-2011 11:45 )Scotsman Wrote:  Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Tracing route to babeshows.co.uk []
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms Livebox-6090 []
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 163 ms 163 ms 161 ms d2.57.7bae.static.theplanet.com [174.123.87.210]


Trace complete.

It's really, really slow for me at present.

you have had a complete network fail. what are you using to connect to the web?

(08-05-2011 15:03 )Tintin Wrote:  Over the past few days I've found the forum really slow. I even got a white screen saying

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

this is when you should be running tracrt. to see where the network is falling down...
if it happens again please run the trace found on page 1.

The site seems slow & sluggish again, so I did another trace.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\aceman65>tracert http://www.babeshows.co.uk

Tracing route to babeshows.co.uk []
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms api.home
2 335 ms 334 ms 334 ms 217.32.97.122
3 334 ms 28 ms 335 ms 217.32.97.145
4 347 ms 344 ms 41 ms 213.1.69.186
5 347 ms 347 ms 348 ms 213.120.157.18
6 41 ms 345 ms 344 ms 213.120.157.178
7 42 ms 41 ms 345 ms acc1-10GigE-1-3-0.mr.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.250.86]
8 353 ms 352 ms 353 ms core1-te0-3-0-5.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.250.13]
9 349 ms 429 ms 348 ms core1-xe0-0-0.redbus.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.200.73]
10 350 ms 44 ms 351 ms ge-2-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [195.66.224.76]
11 352 ms 354 ms 48 ms ge-5-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [64.125.27.149]
12 422 ms 453 ms 422 ms so-0-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.27.57]
13 422 ms 118 ms 423 ms xe-0-3-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.29.17]
14 215 ms 459 ms 158 ms xe-1-3-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.31.213]
15 143 ms 449 ms 184 ms xe-1-1-0.er1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.26.222]
16 144 ms 449 ms 450 ms 209.66.99.94.available.above.net [209.66.99.94]
17 489 ms 520 ms 508 ms te2-6.dsr01.hstntx1.networklayer.com [207.218.245.30]
18 275 ms 307 ms 528 ms po16.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com [70.87.253.105]
19 448 ms 145 ms 448 ms te4-1.car14.hstntx2.networklayer.com [74.55.252.222]
20 449 ms 429 ms 449 ms d2.57.7bae.static.theplanet.com [174.123.87.210]

Trace complete.

10-05-11 20:00

Forgive me if i'm being thick here, but i've done the trace following the board being really slow last week or so (today r i d i c u l o u s l y slow).

But once "trace complete" what then? Am i to assume i've done all i need to? I have no idea what this does, what i'm looking for (if anything) or if i then need to do something further..

Please help!

(10-05-2011 20:02 )schmoo Wrote:  Forgive me if i'm being thick here, but i've done the trace following the board being really slow last week or so (today r i d i c u l o u s l y slow).

But once "trace complete" what then? Am i to assume i've done all i need to? I have no idea what this does, what i'm looking for (if anything) or if i then need to do something further..

Please help!

Well from what I understand about this (Which is not much compared to Hex!t) the first one on the list is you or your first gateway. The last one is this forum. All the one's in between are the exchanges that the signal has to pass through for you to connect to this forum. The list will be different in some way for everyone, depending on your location and provider. But it allows Admin to spot which exchanges in particular are lagging, and therefore slowing your connection to the site.

There is nothing you can do about it. It just narrows down there being any faults with this forum.

Of course I may be totally wrong in my understanding of it. But Hex!t will know more.

Thanks aceman, your understanding of it has impressed me.. i even understand..? A little!

Anyway, details of the trace i referred to:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Tracing route to babeshows.co.uk []
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms http://www.routerlogin.com []
2 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms dr0.enhmi.isp.sky.com [89.200.128.37]
3 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms vl190.ar8.enhmi.isp.sky.com [89.200.135.188]
4 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms ge-2-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [195.66.224.76]
5 * 30 ms 32 ms ge-4-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [64.125.27.145]
6 105 ms 105 ms 105 ms so-0-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.27.57]
7 105 ms 105 ms 107 ms xe-1-3-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.29.21]
8 141 ms 141 ms 140 ms xe-0-2-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.25.114]
9 131 ms 131 ms 151 ms xe-1-1-0.er1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.26.222]
10 132 ms 132 ms 132 ms 209.66.99.94.available.above.net [209.66.99.94]
11 131 ms 130 ms 131 ms te2-5.dsr02.hstntx1.networklayer.com [207.218.24
5.34]
12 147 ms 147 ms 146 ms po15.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com [70.87.253.1
17]
13 139 ms 139 ms 139 ms te4-1.car14.hstntx2.networklayer.com [74.55.252.
222]
14 139 ms 141 ms 138 ms d2.57.7bae.static.theplanet.com [174.123.87.210]

Trace complete.

10/5/11 9.02pm

your spot on aceman. what i was looking for was a reason that the forum is slowing down and it seems to be the hop from the uk to the US.

basically i started this to see if it was a site problem or a net problem. it turns out its a net problem, or it has been for the past week or so.
the reason i know this is that no 1 has actualy posted a time out on the hop that connects to the forum.
so now we know its not the site or admins fault, and theres little he can actually do about it.

I am not convinced that the traceroute info to http://www.babeshows.co.uk is pin pointing the actual problem, it seems to be a forum database access problem.
I was trying to access the "last post" in a thread yesterday when it was running slow.
I just got the usual "Waiting for www.babeshows......" in the firefox status bar.
While I was waiting for the page to load, I ran traceroute to http://www.babeshows.co.uk
I could not enter the actual address in traceroute of the post I was trying to access because it does not appear until the page has loaded.
The traceroute completed running well before the page loaded, with a few max times of around 180ms. The page took over 30 seconds to load.
Access to http://www.babeshows.co.uk was ok, its accessing posts "inside" it that was a problem.
If the address of a "last post" could be entered into traceroute that might be more useful.

ps
I just tried to enter the address for this page into traceroute a minute ago
www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=31801&page=3
but traceroute gives an error message and will not accept it.

^^^^ Yep The Watcher, I tried that the other day as well, with the same results.

I was having trouble accessing the Kelly Bell section, within the Elite threads. But no mater how many times I tried, I just couldn't get into them. And yet the rest of the forum was loading fine. Even the trace didn't show any peaks.

I too think there might be a compatibility issue going on here. As we all use a wide variety of browsers & operating systems. I can't see it being just the amount of people accessing that particular thread at the same time you are. But you never know.

To be honest, I think it's a browser compatibility problem. Because sometimes it just downloads the php, rather than opening it. And then it gets stuck in a loop, were it opens up tab after tab trying to open it.

It's either that, or the showthread.php?/forumdisplay.php? just can't handle the amount of requests it's getting at that particular time.