Anyone else getting slow downloads for attached pics - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 09, 2016, 03:18:53 pm
content: Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing forum slowness with regards to expanding thumbnail image attachmentsI get the same wether in IE or firefox, click on attached thumbnails and it takes ages for the expanded image to appear.Just tried it on a 215kB image it took nearly 10 seconds to expand. A 650kB image didn't expand at all. I'm getting 24Mbps D/L with a 13ms ping on speedtest.net

author: magetoo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 10, 2016, 10:02:37 am
content: Hadn't noticed anything, but maybe it is a little slow; it seems to take about five seconds before I get a response from the forum, but it loads quickly after that.Still better than Photobucket and the likes that always redirects me to a separate page, which breaks inline images. (I suspect they're trying to be smart and have only tested with the browsers that are most popular.)

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 10, 2016, 10:45:37 am
content: happens to me too

author: hendorog
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 10, 2016, 11:48:31 am
content: The site was completely down for me earlier today/yesterday, so maybe its related to that.

author: Cliff Matthews
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 10, 2016, 12:01:24 pm
content: Just server problems, I think the problem is clear now. There are a few other sites on that server (not thousands, like many hosts) and one of them may have been causing a slowdown. There are a few domains associated with IP address 104.31.74.1331bux.netadentalimplantso.comadyyh.netalihaiderofficial.combithash.catcanberra-au.comcaseclinics.comcf-protected-www.opalsinthebag.com.cdn.cloudflare.netcpahybridprofits.orgeevblog.comfinefloorinstalls.comflf555.comflorinda.spacegratisnumret.comhabibskabobandbagelcafe.comhaylaztube.comlimeburners.asiamarathonofmarathons.orgmauiemc.comnorthwesttpharmacy.compornblog.directoryspiritstatus.comtuscuriosidadesaldia.comvanwoertentertainment.comvibe-hybe.netwhindersson.com.brwww.cixi88.comwww.eevblog.comwww.haylaztube.comwww.opalsinthebag.com.cdn.cloudflare.netAll through the outage, the round-trip ping time was a low 9ms (and very few hops) from my location outside Toronto Canada. CloudFlare seems to be "fanning-out service" (for lack of a better word) globally via edge-routers and this could another problem.

author: Cliff Matthews
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 10, 2016, 12:16:14 pm
content: San Francisco, yeah! nice hosting site (building with solar panels and lots of nice rooftop cooling towers).

author: Akra
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 10, 2016, 12:44:17 pm
content: Noticed the same. But it always was very slow for me, so nothing new. I learned to life with it, but sometimes it is really annoying (especially when they don't load at al).For comparison: My internet speed is 100Mbps up/down (1ms ping) and everything on this site loads in almost an instant, except the attached pictures.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 10, 2016, 01:26:41 pm
content: Quote from: Cliff Matthews on December 10, 2016, 12:16:14 pmNot solar, but an enclosed atrium instead.My bet the DNS lookup is a cloudflare POP, and the websites associated with it are just what that single point is handling that week. Most likely from the names either ad servers or parked domains, where you can have multiple DNS lookups to the single point as they will all be served from a small server instance and are likely only going to have a single page with a redirect, or a page and some ads served off the server for the list.

author: Cliff Matthews
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 10, 2016, 02:14:55 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on December 10, 2016, 01:26:41 pmYup, that makes more sense. Some of the PV shapes they'd have, would make it enter into "stupids-ville" like tiny solar-shingles.

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2016, 12:44:50 am
content: Between this post and the previous post I've done a clean install of W10 x64. Not because of this issue, I just got around to it since the MS upgrade from W7.It's still the same except this time, hitting reply, all the emojis and buttons that come up, showed up as text first and eventually rendered into actual images.Curiously I've only noticed this "slow down" since I upgraded my internet connection from adsl2+ to the faster fiber to the node. Probably a coincidence but worth noting