OK for me at the moment.

Edited to add this post took a long time to save. Up til now all FT going usual speed for me.

Very slooooooow this afternoon and evening. Keeps hanging up trying to load the ads.
Taking 20-30 seconds or longer to open a thread.

Also have G-5 Mac with DSL, but not sure of the other state-of-the art stuff. I have noticed some serious lag time this morning.

Forum openings are slow today, as are some of the thread openings.

No change from here -- still about half normal speed.

Techies - are the current flash banners of unusually large size? That has occured in the past and slowed things down a lot?

Not that it needs to be said again, but I noticed slowness as well... especially on posting or editing.

Last 3 days forum has been really slow for me. say 20 to 45 sec to open any particular thread.

Today it's been awful. Very slow a good 30-45 seconds. The other issue I'm having is double clicking quick links. Seems the mouse jumps around on its own, and it's not my mouse. :td:

Thanks for the feedback -- I see nothing on the servers that would indicate a slowdown, so I'm handing off to the data center to see if there are any network issues they need to resolve.

Thanks,
John

Thanks for looking into it - even when I just bring up the bookmarked forum-specific URL's, it takes 30 seconds to load most of the times I've tried over the last 3 days. Other pages load fine, so it's definitely either a php related issue, mysql related issue, or just a plain 'ol bandwidth issue. Hope it gets figured out!

thought it was just Moi...
 

Last attempts today loaded after:
16 seconds. Read a few posts, hit the back button
30 seconds (broken out of in despair), repeat
26 seconds.
Not particularly satisfactory, gentlemen, especially on a T-3 connection!
Please advise. No, better yet, please RESOLVE.
Thanks :rolleyes:

Perhaps I should add...
 

Typically after I click on a forum name from the froums list, my monitor will clear and the status line will increment by small divisions then race to perhaps 95+% full and freeze. This may take 5-10 seconds; the wait then begins....
Occasionally what happens next is a blank screen with "Done:" in the status line.
.....
QUOTE=dcutcher]Last attempts today loaded after:
16 seconds. Read a few posts, hit the back button
30 seconds (broken out of in despair), repeat
26 seconds.
Not particularly satisfactory, gentlemen, especially on a T-3 connection!
Please advise. No, better yet, please RESOLVE.
Thanks :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

Perhaps I should add...
 

Typically after I click on a forum name from the froums list, my monitor will clear and the status line will increment by small divisions then race to perhaps 95+% full and freeze. This may take 5-10 seconds; the wait then begins....
Occasionally what happens next is a blank screen with "Done:" in the status line.
Getting this to "file" will take almost a minute, I'll bet... .....
QUOTE=dcutcher]Last attempts today loaded after:
16 seconds. Read a few posts, hit the back button
30 seconds (broken out of in despair), repeat
26 seconds.
Not particularly satisfactory, gentlemen, especially on a T-3 connection!
Please advise. No, better yet, please RESOLVE.
Thanks :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

It is difficult for me to advise when here we are not seeing any of the problems you describe, and we are on a DSL line -- not a t3.

We are investigating what you are seeing. This is not the forum to duplicate your posts or to post several times in succession about the same issue. Some patience would be appreciated.
[/QUOTE]

would that you COULD experience what we do...
 

John,
Thank you for your reply. Please udnerstand that the time lag is so unacceptable --and elastic--one is sometimes not certain the post has been sent!---hence one of my duplicates. I intentionally added one of the posts to give you further information.
As you mention, "Some patience would be appreciated." That cuts both ways, doesn't it?
:eek:

dcutcher - you could always ask for a refund on your FT subscription I guess? :rolleyes:

The techies in my experience are always on the ball and solve pretty well all these little issues.

A slower than normal FT is far better than no FT at all surely?

Was that really necessary?

I too experienced some slowness the last 2 days. I'm hooked up via cable.
As of last evening, FT was 'back to normal' for me.

equally prompt...
 

...to say thanks when a request has been answered or responded to---- except in the present case, when, attempting minutes ago to acknowledge that response time had sped up remarkably since I posted last night, I just now, today, *again* incurrred the blank screen + interminable wait for next screen, so I broke out, and logged back on to FT so I could finish this post.
My 5 years as a sysad (now gone on to other system issues, thank doG) have left me with a certain perspective re: tech support.
So, before I say something I might later wish I had not,
"g'day, mate."

so, THANK YOU, John, et al
 

For the past 4 hours, on and off as I've tried, response time seems MUCH improved. Whatever who did when, thanks to all. ^

It seems like FT loads A LOT of spyware, which will slow down your computer. I know I'm getting infected from FT, because I just ran my anti-spy/Ad-aware, and I started getting new spyware and slowdowns.

I know you guys need to pay the bills, etc. But do you have to resort to this spyware crap?

I've noted elsewhere - we do not promote nor support the idea of spyware. It most certainly is not coming from FlyerTalk. An advertiser perhaps, but not us. We'd talked to the ad agency about this and i'm awaiting a reply. There is a fact not yet mentioned - that if it is coming from any advertiser, then it is prevalent on many other Web sites as well since anyone adviertising on FT is not exclusive to this Web site.

We'd love to help, but some addtional specific information would be needed.

Thanks.

Sounds more like you have an over-efficient spyware scanner. I reloaded the main page over and over again and didn't see any kind of "spyware" being pushed to my PC.

Most spyware scanners claim the cookies (like avenue.a) are spyware when in fact they are nothing more than a method to track which ad's you have, and have not seen yet.

I think it's pretty safe to say that FT does NOT send out spyware to your computer.

thanks Scott. I'm not a techie but i do have an interest in these topics for the benefit of our members and know that we have not pushed any agenda ourselves (FlyerTalk) on this.

Probably a Coincidence.........but
 

..........my Norton Anti-Virus just flagged and blocked two attempts in the last ten minutes to load a worm on my pc while I was reading FT. No other websites are open, and, as mentioned, it could be coincidental that it happened while I was here. Running slowly, as others have mentioned.

Will check adware next.

bj-21.

Just happened again!
 

Norton just blocked another attempted worm intrusion while I was on FT. This one showed as a Trojan Horse. Strange, but I'm beginning to wonder now if it's just a coincidence. :confused:

bj-21.

What worm?

We do not and never have served spyware. Never.

Thanks, John, I didn't think that FT had used spyware or anything more then a cookie set to keep us logged in.

The Norton warning just happened again, however, and this time I copied the relevent information from it, as I was once again on FT when it appeared. Since I can't "track" where it came from, maybe you can help with some insight.

Here's the details that I copied:

Security Rule: Default Block NETBUS Trojan Horse
Date: 12/28/04
Time: 10:51 PM (EST)
Path: N/A
File Name: N/A
Direction: Inbound
Local Address: XX.XXX.XX.X (My ISP Address)
Local Port: NETBUS (12345)
Remote Address: 211.41.222.234
Remote Port: 1593
Protocol: TCP

Since I installed the Norton Systemworks 2005 several weeks ago to try to correct a slow running computer, I've only had seven virus/worm warnings appear, and four of these have come while I was on FT. May be coincidences, as I usually am here in the evenings, usually very late, so it may be a time-zone thing from somewhere else in the world.

But it did, really, happen again, as per above.

Thanks for your help.

bj-21.

*****Just happened again!!! Same details as above, except the following:

Time: 11:19 PM (EST)
Remote Address:61.43.226.159
Remote Port: 4482

bj-21.

Based on the info you pasted above, it doesn't look like it is FT.

The warning is telling you that someone is trying to connect to your computer. The NETBUS program works by listening to a specific numbered port (listed above), and people outside your computer can then connect into that port if the program (trojan) is running. However, the firewall software you have installed doesn't even let it get that far - it sees the attempt to access that port, and doesn't let it even check if the trojan is installed on your computer (which it probably isn't).

In the simplest terms, someone was just seeing if you had the trojan infected/installed on your computer. The firewall saw the attempted access, and let you know.

As for the person trying to see if you had the trojan installed, I looked up the registration for the company which owns the IP listed. It's a Cable TV company in Korea, which means one of their customers was probably just scanning an entire range of IP addresses to find computers infected with the trojan, and yours just happened to fall into the range that they scanned. Any other questions, feel free to ask, and I'll see what I can do to answer. FYI, here's the registration info for the attacker IP that was in your info above:

Also, for the second IP you posted above, it also looks like a Korea-owned IP... see below for registration details. Looks like the second connection attempt is coming from somewhere in DACOM corporation, which has internet access provided by BORANET corporation in Korea. Not much you can do about it... although perhaps you can tell your firewall to silently log the attempted accesses rather than display them each time, if it's annoying to have them pop up.

Seems like lots of attacks that I see, most of them in fact, originate or appear to originate in South Korea. Not sure if they really do come from there or if there are just a large number of compromised computers there that are being used by criminals in other countries to stage other attacks.

Thank You
 

Thanks, drtravix and John, for tracking the sources for me. At least we know where they originate, and that they are blockable.

Now, if I could only get my slow-running pc to speed up, and stop losing connections...........

Thanks again.

bj-21.

CPU Flush with running Flash..
 

Maybe the advertisements mentioned in this thread in this Same Forum have something to do with the slow speed.
It has been mentioned already by one poster here:My CPU has a thermostatic fan that turns on when it gets warm. In the aircon environment of my office this rarely happens, but recently, every time it has come on, I am in FlyerTalk and have forgotton to set the flash qualities to low @:-)

Tried setting the emotican ad quality to low, as suggested, but each time I go to a new page or thread, it once again had to be reset to low. No way to keep the setting permanently set at low? That might be a help.

bj-21.

Just mentioning that I am still pulling up pretty slow...and I am on a pretty fat pipe.

Had problems today as well.

Today FlyerTalk.com was mentioned again in The Wall Street Journal and I noticed we were operating at record levels of online activity all day long, nearly 2,000 members on every second of the day. Actually the member activity has been extremely high the last few days even before this mention again in the newspaper. Must be members looking for resolutions.....

and I thought it was just me. ;)

I agree on the Flash advertisements - I had the exact same thing start to happen - my CPU would get extremely hot on my laptop everytime I would come to Flyertalk over the last 2 or 4 days, causing the fan to kick in at full speed non-stop until I left the site.

I disabled Flash, and now it works great. Wish we could get rid of the Flash banners.

For those who want to disable Flash on their computers with Windows XP (SP2 installed), you can select "Manage Add-Ons" from the Tools menu of Internet Explorer, and "disable" Shockwave Macromedia Flash.

FT has been real slow for me the last 15 minutes or so.

I logged on again around 4:30 and it took over a minute for the home page to open. Has been slow opening threads too. And I'm on DSL. Have checked some other sites, and they're loading fast so it's FlyerTalk.