for the last couple of weeks it can take up to 30 seconds to access the site.
changing pages has the same dwell.
is there a site problem at the moment?
Fred.
Hi Fred, all working normal on my end
Working okay for me too.
Seems okay for me when I access the site from England.
Hi Fred,both myself and my brother are having no problems,sounds like a computer or slow Internet connection drama.
No problem here......could be your machine needs a clean up.
Thanks guys it is a puzzle as all other internet interactions are normal.
Normally the ACF site loads in about 1 second and changing pages within the site is instant.
Now there is a 5 to 10 seconds response in all actions.
This started about 2 weeks ago.
Access to hotmail, com bank, ebay, mygov, paypal, water, gas, austsuper and all that is unchanged and normal, loading in 1 second or less.
I did the usual re-set from black with the modem, no difference.
Strange.
Barry I'll have a trawl through the PC (windows) and see if there is any odd thing.
Fred.
See if Task Manager shows anything running that is hogging resources. Sometime background processes can do that. Usually a reboot sorts them as they reload.i
Very curious i have just logged in using a completely separate wireless laptop with the same result.
A delay of about 10 seconds before loading.
Then a long pause when changing pages.
This laptop I am using right now is a stand alone I use when mobile and nothing to do with my home office network.
Jeff, task manager shows normal activity in both systems.
Both systems are cruising along all other connections normal.
My solution is to come back in a week and see if "it" has fixed itself!!!!
Fred.
Fred,
I had a problem with similar symptoms and could not find the cause.
Sorted it today but still don't know what caused it!
I will send you a message about what I did.
Cheers,
Jeff
Jeff sent some suggestions all taken on board.
Thanks Jeff.
However, I think this is a network thing, something has changed between my area and the site area causing the latency.
I suspect the something is a wireless link as the only common thing between my home NBN network and my mobile laptop is wireless comes into it somewhere in the path.
The latency is now down to 5 seconds or so.
As nobody else reports a change, that points to an area problem.
All my Pc's are running normally with plenty of headroom and no other internet site access has changed.
Oddly I found one site ( vintage radio) that was always a bit snail slow now accesses in a 1 second and is rock steady!
Just one of those weird networky things.
Fred.
Fred,
Does your router/modem have a choice of wireless frequencies, say 2.4 or 5GHz? Selecting the other one might help. Counterintuitive I know but the slower option can sometimes work better, depending on the devices.
P.S. I can remember a time, not that long ago, when we would have been thrilled with 5 seconds.
Perhaps an ethernet cable if your laptop and modem support it, and cut out that nasty wireless.
Quote from: 'gweidion' pid='129485' dateline='1721739452'Perhaps an ethernet cable if your laptop and modem support it, and cut out that nasty wireless.
Cable can be good. I was running my printer from WiFi and it was very slow to respond and often gave me a "not connected" error message. Plugged it in with a USB cable and it now responds much more quickly and has not thrown a tantrum since.
Hi Greidon.
The office network is good old cat 6 wired ethernet.
Very old fashioned I know with blue cables serving points in rooms and the external workshops.
I have the wi-fi turned off at the NBN modem that serves the house.
The wireless i am referring to is external in the area 'out there'.
Both the house NBN LAN and the mobile laptop feed into 'systems' out there that now are a hodge podge of bits of wire here and GHz transmitters over there.
I am amazed it all works as there must be kludges and Band-Aids all over the place.
I keep repeating NOTHING has really changed in my PC's and mobile response EXCEPT the ACF forum access time.
That was the reason I asked that exact question about access time to the site.
We will never really know what the 'problem' is until somewhere something changes, hardware replaced, updates, whatever.
Cheers, Fred.
Quote from: 'fred lever' pid='129487' dateline='1721819107'Hi Greidon.
The office network is good old cat 6 wired ethernet.
Very old fashioned I know with blue cables serving points in rooms and the external workshops.
I have the wi-fi turned off at the NBN modem that serves the house.
The wireless i am referring to is external in the area 'out there'.
Both the house NBN LAN and the mobile laptop feed into 'systems' out there that now are a hodge podge of bits of wire here and GHz transmitters over there.
I am amazed it all works as there must be kludges and Band-Aids all over the place.
I keep repeating NOTHING has really changed in my PC's and mobile response EXCEPT the ACF forum access time.
That was the reason I asked that exact question about access time to the site.
We will never really know what the 'problem' is until somewhere something changes, hardware replaced, updates, whatever.
Cheers, Fred.
I have ethernet cables (cat5e) running all over the house. Works perfectly. Barely ever look at wireless but my new Motorola phone likes to use it. Better than using mobile data.
Site was not available at 7.20 am, 3/08/24.
Can log on now at 3.45 pm.
There must be a site or area problem.
All other sites work normally for me.
Are other people affected?
Fred.
Still okay for me.
Oddly a couple of years ago a completely unrelated site just wouldn't load for me at all from my phone - worked fine on my desktop though (or vice versa). Eventually it came good after many months but there was never any explanation.
No-one else is reporting any problems.
Try deleting your cookies for the forum. Cookies have given me grief in the past.
Also try using a different internet connection, can you temporarily connect through the data of your phone?
Also try to logon from your phone. I suspect that it may not be usable from a phone but it can give a good idea of how fast/slow it is from another device.
Slowly the site access has improved and now is almost back to instant log on.
I have not changed a thing in my local network!
This 'problem' was definitely outside of my network.
Who knows?
One of life's little mysteries.
Fred.
There has been something using up the CPU on the forum server for the last couple of weeks. This might have been causing the problem. I've been unable to get to the bottom of it so I rebooted the server last night which of course broke something else but we're up and running now.
That would explain why I could not access site for some minutes last night.
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That would explain why I could not access site for some minutes last night.
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Yes, sorry about that. It happened right as dinner was served so it had to wait a few minutes while I ate.
Great to see that the forum is accessible again.
I wasn't able to log in for about four or five days last week.
:winkextra: Likewise
Quote from: 'Unicorn' pid='129950' dateline='1747034544':winkextra: Likewise
...and me,should have been a warning/notice of some kind.
My feedback from family members that work in the trade is that maintaining a long-lived site like this is more than a full-time job.
What was a straightforward joy now appearing to require constant monitoring and re-writing to respond to network changes and combatting nasty intrusions.
Then there are the constant hardware failures ready to take you down!
The internet is not a friendly environment inhabited by enthusiasts anymore but a jungle.
I note this site can sometimes not be accessed at all ,or, run very slowly.
Just like similar size enthusiast sites I log on to.
Typically my access to large team run sites is instantaneous, like banks and government organisations.
My sympathies to this site manager it is not easy.
Cheers, Fred.
Thanks to the couple of people that contacted me through other means to let me know the site was down. I rebooted the server which seems to have fixed things for now. CPU usage is still an issue and I spent some time this morning trying to sort it out without any luck.
Thanks Mark, for the effort you put into this site. It's very much appreciated.
Quote from: 'Triggersmob' pid='129956' dateline='1747127755'Thanks Mark, for the effort you put into this site. It's very much appreciated.
Yes,good to see an Oz Coin Forum still going,i don't have a lot of time to post during footy season but always read the new posts every day or so.
Thanks Mark.
Thanks Mark for maintaining the site - it is greatly appreciated!