| My French Car Forum is Being Throttled (Again) - But Why? On Sept. 18, 2012, I posted a message about extremely slow (to nonexistent) connection speeds to a couple French websites I frequent. I received several welcome replies, and also attracted a couple of other posters who also complained of inexplicable connection-to-Europe, usually starting daily around 4 p.m. Pacific time (I live in the Bay Area and have Comcast HSI). A Comcast tech noticed the thread and in about two weeks, the problem was fixed.
But now, and for the past week or two, it's back! I cannot log onto autodejavel.fr, my French Citroen vintage car forum after about 4 p.m. PST Here's my post describing the problem, which as I say has returned, first posted Sept. 18, 2012:
Thanks very much, Peter
"I joined a forum six months ago, based in France, for lovers of old Citroen cars. Two days ago, the site has slowed to a crawl. Here it is: »autodejavel.fr I have tried the site from two ethernet-connected PCs on my home network, (Comcast cable Hi Speed) as well as via wifi - same problem - very slow download (like 60 seconds or longer). ALL other sites- even other French news sites like lemonde.fr, work at blazing speed.
But not autodejavel.fr ! The website's admin guys are not experiencing any delays or lagging in France.
Really Important: on my iPad 3 with ATT LTE, the site works lightning-fast, no problem whatsoever. The website autodejavel.fr is never a busy site- maybe 20 active posters online - and has always been instantly responsive. Can anyone please try the site and let me know? Thanks, Peter
I use IE 9 and Speedtest.net shows about 24Mb download speeds. Thanks very much! "
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 graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | Seemed to pop right up for me. |
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Opened right up here too. |
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rody_44Premium
join:2004-02-20
Quakertown, PA | reply to Checkerboard
same here no issues |
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 hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
kudos:8 | reply to Checkerboard
No issues here...but wait I have Time Warner!
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Works fast here, really fast for an internationally hosted site. I'm in California with you, to let you know. |
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 THZNDUPDeorum Offensa Diis CuraePremium
join:2003-09-18
Lard
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Seemed OK from here (San Joaquin County). Tracert didn't look too bad.
If my French was right, there were 3 others on line...........
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Yes, you're right- it's working now, at 8:25 pm PST. Last September, the outage usually lasted till the next morning. I will continue to monitor and try to post when it's "reliably" not working. Thank all, Peter |
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It took about four seconds for it to load for me just now. Definitely better than when I tried it before when you last posted about it.
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 beachintechThere's sand in my tool bagPremium
join:2008-01-06
kudos:5 | reply to Checkerboard
Your forum admin needs to pursue this via their ISP, nothing you can do via comcast. Comcast does not have dedicated overseas transport.
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