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Since yesterday, this site has been loading much slower for me. Has anyone else had problems?
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marsha-tbay
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Yes. Sometimes you can never get on the site..thought maybe they're working on it....
Perhaps a router problem - a router out somewhere between you and Phoenix.
When you visit any website the data is passed from the server (in this case, located in Phoenix) to up to 30 different routers as it travels across the country or the world, until it gets to your computer. There can be problems at any of those routers in the path. That's why one site may appear slow but another site be just fine (so you know it's not your ISP), or why a particular site may be slow for one person but fast for another (depending on their geographical location, one may be routed through the problem router, while the other isn't). Then of course any site can have technical problems but this one isn't, at the moment. It's at normal speed for me.
A few weeks ago there was a router out in Phoenix, one that a lot of users (but not all) are routed through to reach the site. A lot of people thought the site was down but it was completely unrelated to us, it was a problem with Qwest. Not much you can do really.
When you visit any website the data is passed from the server (in this case, located in Phoenix) to up to 30 different routers as it travels across the country or the world, until it gets to your computer. There can be problems at any of those routers in the path. That's why one site may appear slow but another site be just fine (so you know it's not your ISP), or why a particular site may be slow for one person but fast for another (depending on their geographical location, one may be routed through the problem router, while the other isn't). Then of course any site can have technical problems but this one isn't, at the moment. It's at normal speed for me.
A few weeks ago there was a router out in Phoenix, one that a lot of users (but not all) are routed through to reach the site. A lot of people thought the site was down but it was completely unrelated to us, it was a problem with Qwest. Not much you can do really.
It's strange, because this site has always been very fast for me. It's only been slow the past two
days. Could my Internet Cable provider have changed its router(s) recently? (Be kind - I'm computer-challenged).
edited to add: It seems a little faster now - has been better the past hour or so (about 6-7 PM). Less traffic?
days. Could my Internet Cable provider have changed its router(s) recently? (Be kind - I'm computer-challenged).
edited to add: It seems a little faster now - has been better the past hour or so (about 6-7 PM). Less traffic?
I have a general question about the site...
On the old Gail's site you could read a string of posts, then click the 'back arrow' and be returned to the last location/post. This site always takes me back to the top of page 1 so I have to scroll down the page to find where I left off. Any suggestions? Thanks
On the old Gail's site you could read a string of posts, then click the 'back arrow' and be returned to the last location/post. This site always takes me back to the top of page 1 so I have to scroll down the page to find where I left off. Any suggestions? Thanks
michael-in-phoenix
Well-known member
Clearing your cache may help. I do that on a regular basis, along with ...
...re-setting my dsl modem.
Both of those things help a lot on my computer.
Michael
...re-setting my dsl modem.
Both of those things help a lot on my computer.
Michael
gfaulds, please read this explanation of what's going on >>>
I have to assume you're using Netscape or Mozilla because I've never heard of it being a problem with IE.
http://www.finerkitchens.com/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=2405
I have to assume you're using Netscape or Mozilla because I've never heard of it being a problem with IE.
http://www.finerkitchens.com/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=2405
Well no, it doesn't work quite that way, it's dynamic...
Definition of a router:
"A device that determines the next network point to which a data packet should be forwarded enroute toward its destination. The router is connected to at least two networks and determines which way to send each data packet based on its current understanding of the state of the networks it is connected to. Routers create or maintain a table of the available routes and use this information to determine the best route for a given data packet."
so it can change over time. And your ISP doesn't have control over the whole Internet to determine what routers the data is sent to. It only has control over it's own network and which other networks it connects to. If the router that is down is several steps away from your ISP, then they have no control over it.
Geez now I am confusing myself. My own grasp of this is pretty rudimentary, I think I will probably only end up confusing both of us if I try to explain it better!
Definition of a router:
"A device that determines the next network point to which a data packet should be forwarded enroute toward its destination. The router is connected to at least two networks and determines which way to send each data packet based on its current understanding of the state of the networks it is connected to. Routers create or maintain a table of the available routes and use this information to determine the best route for a given data packet."
so it can change over time. And your ISP doesn't have control over the whole Internet to determine what routers the data is sent to. It only has control over it's own network and which other networks it connects to. If the router that is down is several steps away from your ISP, then they have no control over it.
Geez now I am confusing myself. My own grasp of this is pretty rudimentary, I think I will probably only end up confusing both of us if I try to explain it better!
Very NFRC: I decided to have one last go at this...
...mostly because it fascinates me (I'm sure most of you are far from fascinated, and it means that there's something seriously bizarre about me, but anyway, for anyone so inclined...).
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a good way to see what routers are. For anyone so inclined, on your Windows computer (won't work on a Mac) click on Start > Run and type in "tracert finerkitchens.com" (without the quotation marks), then click OK. You'll get a box that shows you all the different "hops" to different routers your data is making between you and finerkitchens.com. It's kind of neat actually. Mine is in the image shown below.
For me, it takes 18 hops. For hop 1 it goes to my little router here in my office: "192.168.0.1" The numbers before that "
...mostly because it fascinates me (I'm sure most of you are far from fascinated, and it means that there's something seriously bizarre about me, but anyway, for anyone so inclined...).
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a good way to see what routers are. For anyone so inclined, on your Windows computer (won't work on a Mac) click on Start > Run and type in "tracert finerkitchens.com" (without the quotation marks), then click OK. You'll get a box that shows you all the different "hops" to different routers your data is making between you and finerkitchens.com. It's kind of neat actually. Mine is in the image shown below.
For me, it takes 18 hops. For hop 1 it goes to my little router here in my office: "192.168.0.1" The numbers before that "