Forum pages taking forever to load.....

Recently the forum pages here have been taking a very long time to load. Clicking on a link it can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes before the new page opens.

Additional info....I'm seeing long ping times to the lithium server.

Setup here:

Win 7 (x64) SP1

Hardwired to Actiontec Rev I router

IE 10 or Firefox 26.0

Microsoft Security Essentials

75/35 plan

Speedtests all normal

Anyone else seeing this problem?

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Justin46

I have made the Verizon tech support people here on the Forums aware of this issue and referenced this thread.

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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9.5
Keller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)

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Justin46

Yep, I am seeing the same thing. Been happening for the last couple of weeks. But it is not consistent; sometimes multiple pages in a row will appear normally, then one or more will be slow, anywhere from 10-30 seconds up to 5 or even 10 minutes!

All other sites I visit are working just fine, so it appears to me to be somewhere within the Verizon/Lithium sphere.

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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9.5
Keller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)

eljefe2

Thanks.

I hope Verizon/Lithium are aware of the problem and working on correcting it.

walt178

Here also. Neither browser or OS makes a difference. Every other site is fine.

viafax999

@eljefe wrote:
Thanks.
I hope Verizon/Lithium are aware of the problem and working on correcting it.

About a week of it now. Also today am seeing unable to connect to verizon.com when responding to forum threads.

They probably called customer support and were told it all looked fine.

eljefe2

I just ran a couple of experiments and the results might be interesting.

I tried browsing the forum on my iPhone 5s. When connected via wifi to my Actiontec router (good connection...I see ~38 mb/s up and down on a speedtest) I had the same issue...pages taking forever to load.

I turned off wifi and reverted to at&t LTE for data and pages seemed to load much faster.

I went a step further, left wifi on the Actiontec off, and created a personal hotspot on the iPhone. I then connected my Win 7 laptop to the personal hotspot and went to the forum. Again, pages were much faster. I get much faster loads on the laptop when connected to the iPhone's hotspot than I do with that same laptop connected via Ethernet to my router.

Seems like the problem may be somewhere in Verizon's own routing to the Lithium server(s).

For whatever it's worth.

VUser50

Seems a lot better now, but talk about irony. I guess Verizon.com didn't want to pay peering fees. 🙂 *

*Obligatory: No, I'm not being serious.

eljefe2

@VUser50 wrote:
Seems a lot better now, but talk about irony. I guess Verizon.com didn't want to pay peering fees. 🙂 *
*Obligatory: No, I'm not being serious.

Thanks for starting my day off with a chuckle. But the forum seems back to normal now. The difference isdramatic.

I've marked Justin's post where he said he reported the problem to forums techs as the solution. That seems to have been what caused the fix to happen.

I'm glad it's fixed, but I sure am curious what the actual problem was, and what was done to so completely fix it so quickly.