For nearly a month now, those of us in the UK have been having very slow connections to the Seti website in the States. It often disappears for 20 minutes at a time, then it takes another 3 or 4 minutes to post anything, or move from thread to thread, or forum to forum. It is logically either a UK/USA link problem, or a Berkeley end problem. What I can say is that 2 out of the 4 UK backbone links are down, and the other 2 aren't exactly firing on all 6 cylinders.

Europe

Any comments or suggestions?

...no problems for me. The occasional sow down (as reported by many others at certain times), but for the most part its been fine. Perhaps I'm just used to Scottish broadband speeds!

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Perhaps I'm just used to Scottish broadband speeds!

Hiyah Area 51 Esq. I have BT Infinity at 40+ Mbs download, and still get the problem. Should I be pouring the scotch in the router or the DVD tray?

I think you misspelled something there. We spell it M O U T H over here. ;)

There was some intermittent slowness, but I think that had more to do with them reconfiguring the message board. Everything is working on my end.

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Perhaps I'm just used to Scottish broadband speeds!

Hiyah Area 51 Esq. I have BT Infinity at 40+ Mbs download, and still get the problem. Should I be pouring the scotch in the router or the DVD tray?

Well those speeds beat the pants off anything I could ever dream of getting up here!!!! I'm on a bog standard BT broadband contract - in a rural area - and those twisted pairs must be singing to give me what I get (which is less than 1/4 of your download peak).

I haven't tried pouring the Golden juice into the router - perhaps I should!!! Most of my 'slowdowns' appear to be dirty memory - fixed by a reboot. Given your background, I suspect that you are experiencing problems, but I don't think its that infamous transatlantic link. Perhaps something more local...

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Not any massive continuous slowdown here either, just the occasional slow response of the msg boards... and mine has to go from the Isle of Man to the UK then out!

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experiencing same thing in Australia ...

cheers

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OK, how about doing some traceroutes and seeing where you are going to get to Berkeley - and how fast (or slow).......

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I see it on occasion here in Arizona, so I don't think it is anything in the wires.

I know one of the slow downs was from a bot ignoring the settings and scanning the forums, so there might be more doing the same.

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I've noticed all the S@H webpages have been slow for the past 2 or 3 weeks, and I'm only about 100 miles from Berkeley.

It has been noted that the BOINC backup database on jocelyn has been falling behind the master. Normally, all the database-driven webpages, including the forums, run off the backup database, so that may be part of the problem. Matt touched on it in his latest Tech Note posting.

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Donald
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Still continuing here over the pond .....

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (i.e. everything, not just the forums) was not reachable from here (Germany, Berlin) in the past 30 minutes or so, even downforeveryoneorjustme.com reported it as down.

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Just wondering if the DNS Changer issue has anything to do with it?

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I have also had several periods of inability to access any pages this morning. I'm suspicious of the server that replaced Thinman after the power spike. Maybe there was a reason it was sitting around unused. Matt called it a " spare old frankenstein machine" when he put it in service with Thinman's drives.

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Another Fred
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