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Subject: Re: ICD: New record for slow site?

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 11:37:13 10/10/99

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On October 10, 1999 at 13:20:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 10, 1999 at 11:32:55, Randy Schmidt wrote:
>
>>Each morning, I travel to about 20 sites on the Web, looking
>>for computer info, reading sports, etc. etc.  Lately, I have
>>found ICD to be the absolute slowest site of all time.  It is
>>no uncommom for me to wait 3-4 minutes just to read a post.
>>Most of the time, my browser just times out.
>>
>>I have to say, that if this continues, I will have to go to the
>>German board and read these kinds of threads there.  It is far more
>>appealing to me to deal with the personal attacks of the Usenet
>>crowd than dealing with the inadequacies of the server here.
>>
>>Does anyone find it ironic that it took almost 20 minutes to post
>>a message about how slow things are?!
>
>
>The problem is "interland".  they are either incompetent or else have more
>technical problems than most.  Yesterday, my traceroutes were getting to the
>interland gateway in .2 ms, but to get to icd the typical time was > 30 seconds
>for a single packet.
>
>They have serious problems...

On my end everything is fine reading / posting CCC. But especially the last
weeks there are big route problems going on on the Internet which may cause
terrible dalays.

Ed



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