Electric Ed is having problems connecting to fieldlines

[windstuffnow]

  Electric Ed sent an email stating he hasn't been able to connect to fieldlines in a few days now...  I haven't had any problems... any ideas?

Windstuff Ed

[iFred]

I am having problems connecting too. Very VERY slow to actually get connected, once on however, not so bad.

[TomW]

Ed;

It was definitely down yesterday for a couple hours with either page not found or webserver errors. It sure seems to be slow lately for me too. Eventually the pages do load tho.

T

[wooferhound]

sometimes I see over 50 users on here.

It was running really slow for me last week and I scanned for a virus and it found 3 of the little bugers. After I cleaned it all up, the board seems to be fine...

[Norm]

  Most of you guys that are having trouble are in Canada? Could be something to do. with it?

                   Norm.

[Harry Luubovv]

Sometimes Fieldlines is SLOWED right down, then it gets back up again. This seems to be a steady pattern,

Yesterday, it was obviously offline for a few hours, like it did once every few months. Perhaps this is for maintenance, I cannot say.

But if Mister Ed is out for a few days, this definitely tells something different. I myself have been out for longer period of time before.

Thanks for reading,

Have a big day mates,

Harry

[LEXX]

No trouble here and I'm in Canada, I have broadband tho, maybe that's the key!?

LEXX

[Harry Luubovv]

I am not in Canada, I am FAR down south from Canada.

I do use the slow connection when visiting Fieldlines. But I usually compare the speed of one site against many other sites to say what is slow from what is not. You can get a pretty averaged feel about the speed of any one site this way.

Jolly day mates,

Harry.

[DanB]

I cannot recall the exact days...

I believe a router went down on Friday or Saturday and shut us down for a couple hours.  I believe yesterday..  our server was shut down and restarted, but that should've been fairly brief.

Another thing that I think happens at the beginning of each month, is that search engines index the site which takes a bit and uses lots of bandwidth.

50 users - doesnt really slow us down at all, it can handle much more than that. Most of the time it's been fine, but i have also noticed a few problematic periods over the last couple days.

[hvirtane]

I think that the server

was down yesterday

a few hours. At least

it did not work for me.

I'm not in Canada, but

in North Europe.

- Hannu

[Electric Ed]

I am HAPPY to report that things are back to normal this (Friday) morning, after five days.

I get on as quickly as before, I'm still logged in, and cookies are intact (preferences still set, etc). Go figure!

Thanks for whatever you did.

EE

[DanB]

Hi Ed!

Glad you got back on...

very odd - we looked at things on our end and could find nothing wrong... (we did nothing!)  It's good that  your back though, and I wonder how many other folks had the same problem out there that were perhaps not members of the board!

[nack]

Blame Canada?