Extreme delays accessing Webmasterworld

About one minute per page.

[bumpski]

I'm a regular webmasterworld participant. But at this time I always have about a one minute delay per page load only at webmaster world.

I've used both IE and Firefox, same delay.
I've turned off Javascripting same delay.
If a run a trace or ping to webmasterworld it is fairly quick.

I very recently fully updated windows XP. I was behind be 3 minor updates. I updated the Sun Javascripting engine. I also updated to Firefox 1.0.6 (latest).

I just tried Netscape 7.2 same one minute delay.
I have a DSL connection and have visited many other websites with no issues.

I've had this problem at least three days.

This long delay only occurs with webmasterworld. I'm not going to preview this post I'm afraid it will take to long!

[longen]

Check your /windows/prefetch/ folder - how many files - try clearing them out and restarting windows.

[bumpaw]

Brett- By way of follow up I got back with nice techs at my ISP. He was not able to see the problem in the office, but he lives near and is on the same router. At his house he saw the same slowness I see here. His conclusion is that a router in the New Orleans area affected by Katrina is most likely the culprit. He says there is little to do except be patient and hope that the infrastructure is repaired in the area.

[incrediBILL]

With MSN as my ISP (using 56K dialup), everything works great.

Again the delay is actually about a minute per page view, it's horrendous, through my usual ISP using DSL.

You just solved your own problem, it's most likely your DSL provider or something related.

If it works fast on MSN and not on DSL then it sure as heck isn't WW world as I always get 1 second page displays from WW, faster that greased lightning all the time.

It's probably somewhere in the routing or services (cache?) of your DSL system. I've run into all sorts of routing issues that were obscure so I'd suggest you run a traceroute to WW using both DSL and MSN and see where they go. It's also useful to try a few 3rd party web sites that provide free traceroute services to also trace WW for comparison.

When you see any major time lag bumps you'll know where the problem lies and you'll want to forward that information upstream until someone fixes the mess.

If traceroute all looks clean across the board I'd consider you have some sort of infection, virus, spyware, (alexa/yahoo/google toolbar?) that's slowing down high speed connections as it may be broadcasting your surfing traffic information before it's actually going to the web site and they have the latency issue, not WW.

Hope this helps.

[edit]if your ISP is right and it's a New Orleans issue then waiting is nonsense unless he's a small one man shop as they can route around it... been in the ISP/HOSTING game for years, they have options if you make enough noise.

Consider getting a temporary cheap dedicated server ($59) with LOTS of bandwidth somewhere and install your own proxy server :)[/edit]