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Post by friarygirl » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:18 am

I swear, between the ineptitude of the relevant people in Gibraltar to provide a "broadband" service, and the inability of BUS to deliver stuff that downloads before it times out, i'M GOING TO KILL SOMEBODY!!!

I know BUS needs updating, its huge, and its a big job to tackle. BUT - why is BUS always, consistently, the slowest place I ever visit? I understand when stuff is being done, and I'm cool with that. But day in, day out, the place I need fastest access to basically, is the one I'm left dangling, and then "timed out" of.

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Post by pinky » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:30 am

sorry Friarygirl...i dont seem to have any trouble with BUS timing out on me and i am on dial-up...i sure hope things get fixed for you soon...
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Post by pretty » Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:02 pm

I don't have a techy answer, but when bus is slow I tend to do something else in another window (games usually ;)) while I'm waiting. That helps to make it less frustrating, and I'm not sure that there is much that can be done for now.
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Post by ben » Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:37 pm

The problem is likely to be related to bandwidth.

It's essentially a free site, which means that there isn't a huge amount of bandwidth when compared to say - google/amazon/ebay or news sites etc which pay for massive amounts of bandwidth in order to remain speedy.

That and general traffic - the whole interwebs seems to grind to a near halt periodically.
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Post by GLaDOS » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:44 am

BUS is craaaaawling in my skiiiiin. it's like... the slowest place I've ever been to. some of the stuff takes minutes to load @_@ and it's the only phpbb forum i'm having problems with.

eh. the server probably can't handle the 323693836278583748748378 users' traffic. but still, it sucks. ;_;

edit: also, it's weird. some moments it's perfect (like now), but most of the time it's really slow. @_@
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Post by ChaseThisLight » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:27 pm

notevenpretty wrote:I don't have a techy answer, but when bus is slow I tend to do something else in another window (games usually ;)) while I'm waiting. That helps to make it less frustrating, and I'm not sure that there is much that can be done for now.
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Post by mark » Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:28 am

Not bandwidth, there is oodles of that spare, it's the server -- it's old and slow (800mhz duron) and spends a good deal of time running at 100% cpu. It will be replaced with something more up to date in the next couple of months (dual core xeon). Speed variations are basically due to load variations -- the less people using at one time, the faster it is.

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Post by sine nomine » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:20 pm

see my post about downtime. it should be better in a couple of weeks.
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