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Why is this site so slow?

With or without an Astaro firewall this site is extremely slow. Is noticably more so today, but has been getting slower and slower over the last couple of weeks.
I look at the network lights on the router and there is no activity for long periods of time.
I thought I was having problems with throughput caused by 2 NICs sharing an interrupt, so installed extra memory and another NIC. Re-built the machine.
When my kids are playing games on-line the overall connection response is very poor. I have them on low priority in the filters, but the proxy performance is not affected by the filter setup.
It isn't as if I don't have sufficient horsepower to process the packets as the arrive in the firewall.
My ADSL link is 512/128.

Ian M [:)]

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0 Mark B over 19 years ago in reply to RFCat_vk_01

Ian,

I am down here in Tassie and do not find it "that" slow at all. I have a 2mb/2mb Telstra link here. Also have a 1.5M/256k Netspace link at home. Both use different back-haul providers and it seems ok for me.

Cheers

MJB
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0 doug_p over 19 years ago in reply to RFCat_vk_01

Time to break out the tracerouts. Not sure how much help it will be, since they are mostly aimed at the US, but
http://www.broadbandreports.com/tools
has a Line Packet Loss Test that can help ID possible problem routers with latency or packet loss problems.
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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 19 years ago in reply to doug_p

Doug,
here is the trace to www.astaro.org

Tracing route to www.astaro.org [212.126.210.204]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

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0 doug_p over 19 years ago in reply to RFCat_vk_01

Wow, the latency is right up there (I get arround 200ms to astaro204.timenet.de), though that by itself shouldn't cause the problem.

There seems to be something up with the route from you to German sites. I tried a couple more traceroutes from telestra's traceroute gateway http://www.telstra.net/cgi-bin/trace (which goes through the same 10GigabitEthernet2-2.syd-core01.Sydney.net.reach.com router as you to reach the outside world) and had problems getting it to complete a trace to either Astaro or www.asus.de. www.amd.com and www.bbc.co.uk didn't seem to have problems (and had lower latencies as well). Trying another provider http://traceroute.teragen.com.au/cgi-bin/trace , Taragen doesn't seem to have the same problem. I attached the traceroutes.

Looking at where the routes diverge and converge, one could guess that the problem lies between i-12-3.wil-core02.net.reach.com and ffm-s2-rou-1073.DE.eurorings.net, but it's just that, a guess, based on a limited snapshot of data.

It doesn't show lots of detail, but http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm gives a general idea of connectivity and router status. And right now Australia isn't scoring so great.

Have you talked to your ISP and asked them why you have problems reaching this site?
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