Forum very slow

[Arpangel]

Been very slow last few days, have others had similar issues? All other sites OK.

[Wonks]

It’s been OK with me recently. Still get occasional 504 gateway errors but is not slow as such.

[Arpangel]

Just moved my router, only slightly, but it's made a difference, much faster, don't know why, as it was more than OK a few days ago, checked my speed, and seems normal.

[ef37a]

Fine here as well even though either BT or Firefox have effed about with my email presentation...very 'twitchy'.

Dave

[tacitus]

Are we actually sure it’s not just slowing down for us oldies to be able to keep up?

[Eddy Deegan]

Just moved my router, only slightly, but it's made a difference, much faster, don't know why, as it was more than OK a few days ago, checked my speed, and seems normal.

That can happen. I suspect something in the material of the house was blocking or absorbing some of the wifi signal and the construction of Tony Towers is somewhat substantial. Older houses, especially, can be tricky when it comes to wifi but it's worth it because they're generally built better than modern ones.

My parents' place was built in the 1700s and has foot-thick solid stone walls throughout. They ended up having to install repeaters all over the place to get a decent signal!

I prefer ethernet cable myself so ran lines to where I need them for anything half serious. It makes everything so much less prone to slowdown/interference once done.

Glad it's sorted

[ef37a]

WRT to "Wi Fi" Eddy, This laptop sits about 2m ATCF from my BT router which itself sits on a small shelf about a mtr off the floor.

Now, I can run Skype with my son for over 2 hours and never have the slightest glitch but almost always, when I Whatsapp my daughter just a few miles away, from the same seat, I get "lost connection" notices. I move the phone a bit and it comes back. On the other hand I can use the phone on Whap' from my car out front and the signal has to go through a 2 course brick wall and get into my tin Renault which is a good 5m away!

Dave.

[Arpangel]

Just moved my router, only slightly, but it's made a difference, much faster, don't know why, as it was more than OK a few days ago, checked my speed, and seems normal.

That can happen. I suspect something in the material of the house was blocking or absorbing some of the wifi signal and the construction of Tony Towers is somewhat substantial. Older houses, especially, can be tricky when it comes to wifi but it's worth it because they're generally built better than modern ones.

My parents' place was built in the 1700s and has foot-thick solid stone walls throughout. They ended up having to install repeaters all over the place to get a decent signal!

I prefer ethernet cable myself so ran lines to where I need them for anything half serious. It makes everything so much less prone to slowdown/interference once done.

Glad it's sorted

It's OK now, but I don’t know why it suddenly went? We haven’t moved any furniture, or done any building work to interfere with things.

[Wonks]

Maybe the ghost was sitting in front of it?

[Forum Admin]

Maybe the ghost was sitting in front of it?

Nah, it'll have been the "Greys" in a parallel plane stood observing Arpangel and reporting back to the mothership.

[Martin Walker]

I prefer ethernet cable myself so ran lines to where I need them for anything half serious. It makes everything so much less prone to slowdown/interference once done.

Same here - a single 20-metre ethernet cable crosses three rooms in my house (including going under the bath) to give me a rock-solid connection in my studio that's not subject to the vagaries of Wi-fi.

[Folderol]

What is this 'why fly' you speak of
(almost) every room of Folderol Towers has a wired connection back to the router/hub. Some of the greedy buggrs have 2

[tacitus]

We have a LinkSys Velop Mesh setup in our old house with its brand-new extension. The Celotex in the new bits combined with the 2’-thick outer walls of the old bits makes predicting signal levels practically impossible. So we have one node in the hall downstairs, one upstairs in the spare bedroom, a third in the kitchen (does one Celotex-shielded space) and a wired link to a fourth one in my converted barn listening-room outside. It all works quite well, but you wouldn’t expect it to looking at where the nodes ended up. In fact, I get better speed and a reliable connection on my computer in the listening room using wifi than using cable. The telly in the kitchen will pick up the node in the hall, but then phones won’t work in the kitchen unless you stand in the doorway …

[Wonks]

I've been getting the spinning wheel of doom a lot on the forum today and yesterday and it's slowly getting worse.

[ef37a]

Nope, all nice and speedy for me.

BT, Firefox.

Dave.

[Forum Admin]

Nothing flagged up by the monitoring services we use. And personal Forum access today all good for me in Safari and Chrome (Mac).

[Eddy Deegan]

Sorry to be a doom merchant but I've been getting slowness here as well. It's intermittent but (for the last 3 days or so) when it happens I get a spinny wheel for up to 30 seconds when trying a post, delete or update.

That said, it seems to be behaving itself right now and if not many people have mentioned it I'm happy to put it down as something external to SOS

[zenguitar]

Very similar experience to Eddy here as well.

Andy

[Drew Stephenson]

I've just had one token slow response, out of about 200 today!

[ef37a]

Still cooking nicely for me.

Dave.

[Wonks]

Better today for me.

[Folderol]

I'm wondering if this is a routing issue from their service provider, and therefore quite outside SOS control.

[James Perrett]

All fine here on Talkmobile (Vodafone).

[Martin Walker]

All fine here too on BT 150Mbps fibre.

[tea for two]

It's de prawn

Butt seriously, on my 8year older LG G5 phone, 3 network data, been fine. Although near tech city in london necessarily means network connections here are reliable speedy.