| [Speed] My French Car Forum is Being Throttled - But Why? 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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 plencnerbPremium
join:2000-09-25
Elgin, IL
kudos:2 | I'm on Comcast as well (have the performance w/powerboost package). I usually get 24 MB down and 4 MB up on speedtests.
I clicked on your link almost 10 minutes ago, and the page still has yet to load for me. It has not timed out yet, just still trying to load.
I wonder if its a routing issue? I know ping tests don't say much, but look at the time it takes. Seems high to me.
Here's a ping to the site. Note that it does reply, but has a high time (avg 144 ms).
ping autodejavel.fr
Pinging autodejavel.fr [82.165.110.194] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 82.165.110.194: bytes=32 time=145ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.165.110.194: bytes=32 time=142ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.165.110.194: bytes=32 time=145ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.165.110.194: bytes=32 time=145ms TTL=50
Ping statistics for 82.165.110.194:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 142ms, Maximum = 145ms, Average = 144ms
Compare that to google (average time 45 ms)
ping www.google.com
Pinging www.google.com [74.125.225.210] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.225.210: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.225.210: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.225.210: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.225.210: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=51
Ping statistics for 74.125.225.210:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 44ms, Maximum = 46ms, Average = 45ms
and dslreports.com (average time 38 ms)
ping www.dslreports.com
Pinging www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=54
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=54
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=54
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=54
Ping statistics for 209.123.109.175:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 34ms, Maximum = 43ms, Average = 38ms
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 gar187erI do this for a living
join:2006-06-24
Dover, DE
kudos:4 | reply to Checkerboard
that site is slow as balls...
then again seeing as its hosted overseas (i assume) thats no surprise...i would think routing got screwed up..
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| Except, how can we explain that my ATT LTE iPad3 displays all of the site's pages almost INSTANTLY! |
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 owlynPremium,MVM
join:2004-06-05
Newtown, PA
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Comcast doesn't throttle. The problem is probably due to the unique French engineering, similar to that which went into their fine automobiles such as Simca, Alpine, Peugot, Renault, and Citroen. Considering, you're lucky you can get to the site at all.  |
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 NetFixerFrom my cold dead handsPremium
join:2004-06-24
The Boro
·Comcast Business..
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I am on a Comcast 12/2 connection. I clicked on your link and the site loaded in about 4 seconds. Certainly not the fastest loading homepage I have seen, but considering that it is probably a low budget site and had to travel across the Atlantic to Middle Tennessee, I would not consider it to be "throttled". Try going to some of the Taiwan computer parts sites if you want to really see slow load times.
If you are still having problems, then the problem is probably in the routing between you and the site. Try doing some traceroutes to see what the differences are between your connection and mine.
Here is a traceroute from my location:
C:\>tracert autodejavel.fr
Tracing route to autodejavel.fr [82.165.110.194]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 38 ms 21 ms 30 ms 174.49.8.1
2 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms xe-4-0-0-0-sur02.murfreesboro.tn.nash.comcast.net [68.85.50.129]
3 12 ms 11 ms 10 ms xe-2-1-1-0-ar01.goodslettvll.tn.nash.comcast.net [68.86.176.53]
4 20 ms 20 ms 19 ms 68.86.90.189
5 17 ms 91 ms 17 ms 64.209.107.53
6 143 ms 159 ms 154 ms 204.245.39.158
7 156 ms 157 ms 159 ms te-3-3.bb-d.bs.kae.de.oneandone.net [212.227.120.9]
8 144 ms 144 ms 174 ms ae-2.gw-dista-a.bap.rhr.de.oneandone.net [212.227.122.11]
9 * 186 ms 151 ms vl-1991.gw-ps5.bap.rhr.de.oneandone.net [217.160.127.70]
10 * * 154 ms kundenserver.de [82.165.110.194]
Trace complete.
I do see a few timeouts after the German oneandone.net hops, but that is really not unusual (I often see those doing traceroutes to Google and Yahoo! too).
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 | reply to plencnerb
said by plencnerb:Here's a ping to the site. Note that it does reply, but has a high time (avg 144 ms).
144 ms Illinois to France is high?
Add the difference from the U.S. West coast:
Ping statistics for 82.165.110.194:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 188ms, Maximum = 188ms, Average = 188ms
Your ping time doesn't look high to me.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Checkerboard
loaded fairly fast for me, And other than the flaw of being in french it loaded fine.
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sk1939Premium
join:2010-10-23
Washington, DC
kudos:9 Reviews:
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It's not all that slow:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms *
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms *
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms *
4 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms *
5 5 ms 5 ms 4 ms static-*.fnd.frontiernet.net [*]
6 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 184.10.116.1
7 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms xe--0-0-0---0.cor01.asbn.va.frontiernet.net [74.
40.3.25]
8 16 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae1---0.cbr01.asbn.va.frontiernet.net [74.40.2.1
74]
9 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms ge4-1-1g.ar2.dca3.gblx.net [64.215.195.177]
10 155 ms 150 ms 157 ms 204.245.39.158
11 117 ms 117 ms 117 ms te-3-3.bb-d.bs.kae.de.oneandone.net [212.227.120
.9]
12 117 ms 117 ms 117 ms ae-2.gw-dista-a.bap.rhr.de.oneandone.net [212.22
7.122.11]
13 117 ms 117 ms 117 ms vl-1991.gw-ps5.bap.rhr.de.oneandone.net [217.160
.127.70]
14 118 ms 118 ms 118 ms kundenserver.de [82.165.110.194]
Trace complete.
My guess is that it was just a temporary slowdown. |
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| reply to plencnerb
Hi Brian- and thanks for trying the site. Comcast is definitely doing something here.
Again, the site loads super-fast on my iPad 3 with ATT LTE cellular connection... but is almost dead with Comcast. I wasted 40 minutes talking to four Comcast "support" people, three of whom tried to sell me the Signature Plan for 79.95 and $20. per month. I refused, and they could not offer anyone to help me out for "free." I'm at my wit's end! |
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| reply to owlyn
Acchhh.. I've been frequenting the site autodejavel.fr for six months and never, ever had this problem. And the locals in France tell me the site's as fast as ever. And yes, the Citroen DS is temperamental, but exquisitely comfortable and a real work of art!
And by the way... Newtown, PA? Meet you at the corner of State Street and Washington! Kidding... moved to San Fran in '94, but grew up in Bucks County, Council Rock HS '75...
Now please tell me if I'm wrong here -why would my ATT iPad3 work as usual, but Comcast "throttle back" or otherwise slow down the site?? Thanks! |
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 jlivingoodPremium,VIP
join:2007-10-28
Philadelphia, PA
kudos:1 | said by Checkerboard :Acchhh.. I've been frequenting the site autodejavel.fr for six months and never, ever had this problem. And the locals in France tell me the site's as fast as ever. And yes, the Citroen DS is temperamental, but exquisitely comfortable and a real work of art!
And by the way... Newtown, PA? Meet you at the corner of State Street and Washington! Kidding... moved to San Fran in '94, but grew up in Bucks County, Council Rock HS '75...
Now please tell me if I'm wrong here -why would my ATT iPad3 work as usual, but Comcast "throttle back" or otherwise slow down the site?? Thanks!
Comcast isn't throttling this site. It could be due more to routing from the various networks. My first recommendation is to register as a user here so I and others can PM you. The second is to post a traceroute from the ATT network and then immediately (same time of day) post a traceroute from the Comcast network.
I'd hold the French car thing against you except that the DS is pretty neat and I'm wrenching on an old British car tonight with friends, so I really shouldn't cast aspersions on other cars since the Brits haven't historically been known for their reliability. 
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 JohnInSJPremium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA
·PHONE POWER
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»browsermob.com/free-website-perf···9aff0019
Third party test shows 3-5 second page load time. I can only assume they don't use comcast
*all* their US sites show somewhat bad performance.
The first page load time on my comcast linux box is .7 second:
/tmp$ time wget "http://autodejavel.fr/"
--2012-09-19 05:39:52-- http://autodejavel.fr/
Resolving autodejavel.fr... 82.165.110.194
Connecting to autodejavel.fr|82.165.110.194|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'
[ <=> ] 51,215 75.5K/s in 0.7s
2012-09-19 05:39:53 (75.5 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [51215]
real0m1.486s
user0m0.004s
sys0m0.000s
So, the site may have lots of crap on it (which isn't loaded on a mobile browser like your iPad3) which slows it to a crawl.
On comcast, my linux box, firefox with noscript blocking all the crap, page loads in about 1.5 seconds. Even allowing scripts it seems to load in under 2 seconds.
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plencnerbPremium
join:2000-09-25
Elgin, IL
kudos:2 | reply to Checkerboard
For what its worth, I did try the page this morning, and now it loads in under 5 seconds. Did not actually time it, but it is way faster then it was last night. When I posted my reply at 21:04:43, I waited at least 15 minutes for the page to load before I gave up.
So, something was going on last night in regards to the path the bits were taking to get from me on Comcast's network to them.
It appears that whatever was "broke" is now fixed (as far as the actual load time of the page). I did not try to "download" anything from the actual page (like a file posted in a thread) so I cannot say if that is working any faster then it was before. If the OP has a link to such a file download, post it and lets test that out as well.
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 mb
join:2000-07-23
Washington, NJ | reply to Checkerboard
Loads fine here, just as fast as anything else. Family owned a mid 60's Renault R8, it was a POS. |
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 ropeguruPremium
join:2001-01-25
Mechanicsville, VA | reply to Checkerboard
NM |
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gar187erI do this for a living
join:2006-06-24
Dover, DE
kudos:4 | reply to Checkerboard
much faster for me today as well....must have been a routing/peer issue...
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| reply to jlivingood
Hi there - I just registered, thanks for reminding me. And the site worked all day pretty well, as normal. Now, however, the same problems are back --- impossibly slow speed! Thanks again, Peter |
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Yeah, I had an MG and a Triumph... always an adventure taking those out for a trip! The site, by the way, is acting up again, after running at full speed since the morning! |
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| said by Checkerboard:The site, by the way, is acting up again, after running at full speed since the morning!
Sounds like evening congestion. How is your speed on domestic sites? Comcast jumps through lots of hoops to reach internationally hosted sites so congestion along the route is a problem.
It's acting slow for me right now so that is what i suspect. |
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