Yep site is playing up again.

Treacle ... and 502 Gateway errors.

must be global warming (or jack watts)

It's lightning fast for me at the moment, but was bad before. Scratching my head at the moment to be honest.

its stil erratic for me.

It's lightning fast for me at the moment, but was bad before. Scratching my head at the moment to be honest.

Has been lightning fast all day (even at the height of the Sylvia announcement). Last 1/2 hour has been terrible. Having said that this page opened up a lot faster now than it did 10 minutes ago.

Has been lightning fast all day (even at the height of the Sylvia announcement). Last 1/2 hour has been terrible. Having said that this page opened up a lot faster now than it did 10 minutes ago.

Are you finding that it has short periods of being really bad, then long periods of being okay?

During a period where you're consistently finding it's okay, what happens if you close your browser and open it again - is it bad again?

Weird line of questioning probably, but it does lead somewhere.

Next time it plays up I will try that. Interesting theory.

Sometimes the bad times last a while. Sometimes only a few minutes. All morning was great. Then bad for an hour. Now it is fine.

The problems definitely happen when the site is busy - no doubt about that, but it's not the normal "server under heavy load" things you see like memory/CPU/hard drive being hammered; the server never seems to be under any great stress. I can reproduce the problem with a tool I've got that hits the site with 500 connections at once; the first 300 load the site in 1-2 seconds and the last 200 often have to wait 20+ seconds; it agrees with the symptoms of it being fine for others and dog slow for others. I suspect by closing your browser you will join the end of the queue to get a connection again and you'll see a big performance crash.

It's a good lead, anyway.

Happening again and closing and reopening the browser doesn't "fix" the issue.

Ok so what we're going to have to do is turn this into an elite cadre of 300 members and take the this is sparta boot to everyone else. My idea so I'm first member, everyone else send me your 300 line applications including preferred posting style and favourite article of clothing.

acting up a bit again.

many other sits like lightning..just saying

Wheres the first pipe to server from/to

The problems definitely happen when the site is busy - no doubt about that, but it's not the normal "server under heavy load" things you see like memory/CPU/hard drive being hammered; the server never seems to be under any great stress. I can reproduce the problem with a tool I've got that hits the site with 500 connections at once; the first 300 load the site in 1-2 seconds and the last 200 often have to wait 20+ seconds; it agrees with the symptoms of it being fine for others and dog slow for others. I suspect by closing your browser you will join the end of the queue to get a connection again and you'll see a big performance crash.

It's a good lead, anyway.

Will speaking/emailing their tech support help?

How's it now?

Still very, very slow

Just took almost a minute for this thread to open.

How's it now?

Worse than before if that's possible.

Will a move to a different server location with the same host make a difference? Is that still an option? Do we need to move hosts?

still slow as

when the afl site opens in a flash & even bigfooty opens 3 x quicker than ours there's something not right.

do others with telstra products/ISP's have the same problems with slow speeds?

all of a sudden its sped up in the last couple of minutes.

Still very, very slow

some times i prefer it that way

some times i prefer it that way

Isn't everything slow in Brrrrrrwood?

Slow as buggery.
Might be all the journos and facebook pager runners looking for a rumour to post on their sites or newspapers.

just got back to normal for me... wtf...lol

Amazing! Now it's good again.

just got back to normal for me... wtf...lol

yeah me to.

I've closed the browser & cleaned & defragged, rebooted, and no improvement. then it speeds up, then slows again.

back up to speed now?