Can you do a tracert and see if you are going through that IP range? The issue I'm seeing, which may not be the cause but isn't helping, is in a connection near the forums. Meaning, more than one source network could hit the same bump mid-routing.Been having extremely slow performance for the last few days, no matter where I'm connecting from (all over the state) or what computer I'm using.
Curious if people having the issue can do a tracert to forums.anandtech.com and see if their traffic is going through anything in the 38.0.0.0-38.255.255.255 range. I'm seeing about 10% packet loss at hop 10 of 12 (38.104.86.222). Noticing there's several routers in that range doing the same, owned by psinet.
It certainly feels DB related, but might as well address the network issues. I emailed the zone contact for that IP to see if I can get a reply. Technical contact is only a phone number, I guess if necessary I can wade through that.it appears to be local DB rendering lag more than network latency.
42ms 38.104.86.222
Been having extremely slow performance for the last few days, no matter where I'm connecting from ... or what computer I'm using.
Huge slowdown today. My traceroute shows acceptable latency at the 38.x.x.x hop. Thank you ViRGE for the update.
Thanks for the update, because it is getting really annoying and frustrating.Just so you guys don't feel that you're being ignored, the problem has been reported and looked into. For the moment we still don't have any idea why this is happening.
What's weird is I can load the forums just like normally when I log out, but when I'm logged in it hangs and often won't load a forum page at all.
Even this empty forum with 4 people viewing wouldn't load until I logged out, loaded the page and post I wanted to quote, then logged back in with the post quoted.
So it's obviously a lag related bottleneck bug of some sort with logged in users.
probably nearly all of the people here use adblock so ads have nothing to do with this issue. the site is just randomly slow and has been doing that for a LOOOONG time.I use AdBlock Plus and use NoScript. I don't seem to have the same problems with slowness, at least not recently.
I wouldn't mind seeing the ads if this site didn't have such a bad history with them. Someone should tell the person in charge to either handpick the ads or switch to text ads, or to simply provide a page (a la the SlickDeals front page) where we can use referral links to do purchasing of stuff like computer parts. I would gladly support AnandTech that way or even directly if possible.